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V.R.C. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

LOCAL BOXING,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1927.

ANNUAL `AQUATICS. TO BE | FIRST TOURNAMENT OF NEW

CUT OUT.

SEASON.

́EVENTS TO BE DECIDED AT TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER,

NIGHT FETES.

It was learned yesterday that it has been decided to eliminate the

The first tournament of the Hong Kong Boxing Association it w learned from Mr. Brook, Manager,

LOYAL EAST END THE KING AND THE NAVY,

CHILDREN.

WONDERFUL GREETING FOR KING AND QUEEN.

WAITING FOR HOURS.

No. 10, Wade's place, Mile End

1 YEARS' SERVICE WITH THE FLEET.

SEVERAL COMMANDS.

We were recently reminded that it is half a century ago since the King entered the old Britannia as

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WEEDING OUT BOGUS NOBLES,

MUSSOLINI'S NEW LAW.

HEAVY FINES FOR USERS.

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Hard times arg forecast for Italy's fake nobility when Signor Mussolini pushes through a plan

WIDOW ACCUSES

SOCIALISTS.

SAYS THAT HER HUSBAND WAS HOUNDED TO DEATH:

TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT'S STORY OF MAN UNFIT FOR DUTY.

WAR. TIME BABIES NOT INFERIOR.

UP TO, IF NOT ABOVE AVERAGE MENTALITY.

HOSPITAL DIRECTOR'S

DEFENCE.

LONDON, June 18th.

So persistent has been the talk in

Annual aquatics from the summer is to be held on Saturday, Novem- read, E., is a four-roomed house a naval cadet. With him went his he is at present - meditating for Socialist Party were made at an Engined about the "inferiority"

Programme of the Victoria Reber 5th, at the Theatre Royal

creation Club this year.

At the same time the events which comprise the aquatics will not the cancelled, but are to be decided at the Night Fetes.

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Able-Seaman Ewin of E.M.S. Hermes, welterweight and middle- weight champion of the Colony is leaving the Navy soon and is going

in a cul-de-mas less than 20ft, wide,

and opposite the People's Palace

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making the improper use of titles

of nobility a punishable offence.

Italy has the oldest nobility in Europe. The oldest family is that of Prince Massimo, who claims

to the British Boxing Board of hours before they were expectedness when he went to. Dartmouth, descent from that famous Quintus!

Control. He is to be trained by Mat. Wells, "ex-lightweight cham pion of England at Blackfriars,

The next Night Fets is to be on Saturday, August 20th, and on this occasion the 100 yards Back Stroke Championship of the Colony, and London. the 100 yards Services Champión. ship will be held.

While this decision to abandon the Annual Aquatics, which used

BOXING AT SHANGHAI.

to occupy two mid-week evenings NO FURTHER CONTESTS UNTIL

and one Saturday evening, will

curtail the season's programme to

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WEATHER IS COOLER.

room,

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Strong allegations' against Hull elder brother, Edward, more generally known as Prince Albert

inquest by the widow of Edwin of babies born during the war that The King and Queen visited the East End on July 6th, the 34th Clarence. Prince Edward had bat

Victor, Afterwards Duke

Harvey Drinkwater, forty-nine, a

women here feel called upon to risk tramway inspector, of the Lund-in defence of such offspring. It is anniversary of their wedding, but

burst Club, Hull recently recovered from a sovere

aaid by some mothers of war-time". babies that the."youngsters,~ now” and as he had little taste for the

He was found dying in his bed-

reaching conversational age, Fabius

suffering from poisoning, sea he did not take his training commanded Rome's legions in the sequel to the friction which has child has returned home

Maximus Cunctator who and the tragedy was said to be a very seriously. No so the King.

actually handicapped by this who promptly revealed that in

pseudo scientific gossip. Many a wars against Hannibal. harent love for the sea which he families there exists, however, as the men who, after acting as volun-

existed since the general strike beschool in tears, they say, after from Side by side with these Eine old tween the local Socialist Party and has never lost. He showed marked abundant a crop of pseudo barona aptitude for boat sailing and prac-spurious counts, and bogus princes tramways, were retained, ia por

being called contemptuously by

or younger tical seamanship. Apart from

older children the Hall Corporation

stupid. war-time child." being berthed in special quarters, the world.

as can be found anywhere else in the Royal brothers ware treated like the rest of the cadets, conform

the seven young children of Mr and Mrs. Double who live at No. 10, took up a position which an- abled them to see what very few people in the East End saw, and that was their King and Queen first in a motorear and then in à carpinge, all within the space of a few minutes.

The Best Sight.

Mrs. Double said to a reporter:

The children were so xcited

teers on

manent situations..

some extent, on the other hand it A HONG KONG CHALLENGER that I let them go out and waiting to the routine in every particued lengths almost beyond belief. A monia by his side.

will give an added zest to the Night Fetes.

WATER POLO.

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Mr. George Verity, chairman of the famous Charing Cross Hospi lenges the headmaster of the Har- batal has entered a vigorous defence of the war years' babice. He chal- row boys' school and others who have been critics of war-year babies

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Habes Above Rather Than Below Average.

Last century-the sale of titles, found his father in bed under

Mr. Drinkwater's son said especially in Southern Italy, reacheiderdown with a bottle of 201- to see the procession three hours lar. Lieut. Guy Mainwaring, the regular tariff existed and anyone Owing to the great heat and the before it was expected. We all had prospects of the weather getting & splendid view of the King and Number One" of the Britannia, with the required amount of money been drinking this His father their contentions are founded upon He said: "Father, have to produce any real evidence that still botter, says the North China Queen in the car, but the best sight was the officer directly responsible could purchase any title he fanci could not speak, but nodded his fact.

was when they came out through Daily News of last Monday, it has the gates of the People's Palace for their training, and it was a There will be a meeting of the been definitely decided by the In.in the open carriage.

source of profound satisfaction Water Polo Association this even-ternational Sporting Club to cancel so that we had plenty of time to Prince George passed in a very The carriage went very slowly, when, at the final examination, ing at six o'clock at the Victoria all boxing arrangements until the noties what the Queen wore Pit creditable fashion. Capt. Henry Recreation Club, at which it is end of next month.. hoped to make final arrangements with regard to the Water Pola League season, which is due to open almost at once. Entries will have

closed by to-day for teams entering the League this year, and particu- lars will be available at this even ing's meeting regarding them.

BASEBALL.

mauve dress and hat to match I

head. 40,000 Real Claims..

Charles Frederick Ellwool, ber of people with more

The result has been that the num- tramways, said he found. Mr. traffic superintendent on the Hull- properly acquired titles is extremeber's shop.

or less Drinkwater coming out of a bar ly great, and the laws and regula

Mr. Drinkwater's speech thousands more fell into the prac-elusion that he was unft to con tice of arbitrarily tacking a

count" or & marquis in front tinue, duty.

their names, such titles becon-

legitimated by constant the.

WILS

Towards the end of August the mer. have never seen her look better or Fairfax was in command of the tiens have always been so∙lax that thick, and witness came to the con

cury ought to be on the down grade and about that time a number of first-class boxers are due to arrive here from Manila, Tientsin and Japan. In Japan just now there is

one of 138 lb., who, a year agn, went over to America and cleaned up all of his weight along the Japanese friends

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Ale very much interested in him 'and have induced him to pay a visit co Shangbai. While he is here he will be seen in action against John- an and Garcia of Manila, Mahaney of Tientsin and Seaman Dixon of

CANCELLATION AND POST- Hong Kong.

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PONEKENT.

The ball game "arranged between anAll Hong Kong Nine" and the U.S.S. Helena outfit yesterday was called off, on' acequnt of the weather.

Hong Kong Challenger ter Duncan. Dixon, by the way, is the present welterweight champion of Hong' Kong, and he is anxious to meet any welter in Shanghai for a suit- able purse and sidestake on the basis of the winner taking all... He

80 well.

"I thought the King looked a little older than when I saw him at this very spot about two years ago. I think be is getting to lock remember seeing King Edward and more and more like his father. I the present King when he was Prince of Wales, both together

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Afectionate Smiles. There are Wade's-place, with

eight families in 55 young children, all of who saw the pro cession.

The reception given to the King and Queen was remarkable for the warm-heartedness of the cheering looks of the men, women, and for the affectionate smiling and children. The very young

The children were wonderful. ones lined the edges of the pavements for almost

Britannia.

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Widow's' Protest, He sent him home and told him arxt day. to. report to the general manager

The Coroner: Has anyone any questions to ask?

husband was a temperate man, and The Widow: Yes, I have. My if the suggestion is that he was

In 1880 the two Princes embark- ed in the Bacchante, commanded by Capt.. Lord Charles Scott, and Squadron under Admi. the Earl forming a unit of the Detached of Clanwilliam. In this ship they set up and, it is understood, will A heraldic commission has been went-round the world, being pro draw up a list of about 8,000 fami moted midshipmen in the course of lies and 40,000 individuals who the voyage. On the return of the have legitimate claims to titles Bacchante Prince Edward-gave up

As soon as the list is ready a law the sea and afterwards joined the will be passed making it illegal Army, entering the 10th Hussars. for anyone not included to ase & The King, however, carried on. In title. Anyone so much as writing a 1880 he was appointed to the modest

baron" in front of his Dreadnought as a lieutenant and, name on his visiting card or paint after serving for two years in bering a crest on the door of his when he left the house or when he in the Mediterranean, was trans-

motor-car will be required to pay came back," she added. “ ferred to the Alexandra, flagship fine ranging from 1,000 to 6.000 of the Duke of Edinburgh.

." It In lira, with heavier penalties to fol- nothing else.

persecution, and 1889 he received his first comunand,

low if the offence is repeated.

They hounded him being appointed to torpedo-bout

to death." No. 79 for the daval maneuvres. ward with glee to all the spurious him to death 1-The Socialist Party

The bulk of Italians look for-

Teh Coroner: Who have hounded

intoxicated I protest.

prove he was not intoxicated either "I can bring six witnesses to

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further from the truth than that No statement, he mys, could be which credite war babies with in- ferior brains He knows many kiddies of both sexes born during the actual war years-dandreds were thus born in the great hospi-. tal that he heads or in various in- stitutions with which he is 550- ciated-and he says that, if any- thing, these youngsters now sbore rather than below the average.

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Mr. Verity says that children born during periods of general mental stress have, if anything, a

bright than children born dur shade more chance of being mental-

ing periods when minds are at ease and humanity, speaking generally, is comfortably lazy.

-Mentally Alert and Especially Bright.

The re-play game between the issues a challenge to Corpi Dusen the catire four miles or so from He greatly distinguished himself counts, barons, dutes, and princes because he got a job when they riv with the kiddies of the com- Filipinos and the Dragons which to box over 15 two or 13 three, Aldgate to Stratford, and it seem by rendering valuable assistance to being pushed off their false pedes would not work.

THE DAVIS CUP. JAPAN ELIMINATES MEXICO.

RAILWAY WORKS VISIT.

now Sunboat. Thriss, and opent

vessel in distress Is Hay feed, tala. he was appointed to and the

naval

ed that there never was 2 time was postponed till September championship: Thful of healthy and well clothed. Some scheduled for to-morrow is minute rounds for the Shanghai when East End children looked 4th. veka,TM every one contest if it can be arof them waved Union Jacks or about a year in her on the North →raipinos play the Japanese ranged.

to-morrow at $15. This game, t

Corpi. Duncan, to whom Seamar cries heard And their shrill American Station. On his return"?

paper will be recalled, was postponed on Dixon has issued a challenge, will never ceased until the King and mander, and in that rank, in lieu above the cheering to England he was promoted.com- two previous occasions.

probably not be seen in action again Queen bad passed. in Shanghai for several months, it

of captain, commissioned the new ever at all. There are several

eruiser Melamp for the haral reasons for this, and it is a great

maneuvres of 1892 After remain- pity as the Marine Corporal has

ing in her for two months he came made himself very popular with

ashore, and shortly afterwards was Shanghai fans. There is no doubt the East End" the King and Queened captain.

In the course of their visit to created Duke of York and promot but that he would be able to more visited the works of the London than hold his own against any of and

It will thus be reen that his the men coming here.

North Eastern Railway at Majesty had a continuous Stratford. The next card will be staged in

eareer extending over fifteen years, the open air

Six old employees at the works and when he is occasionally refer and champions of with more than 50 years' service red to as "Our Sailor King" the almost every class will take part. wore presented to the King and term has a very much more prac- Champions of Hong Kong, Manila, Queen, who shook bands and chat-tical justification than the present Tientsin and Japan will battle ted with them. against one another and the curtain

generation quite realizes.-Naval The King inquired the age of and Military Record raiser will be the only bout in the man who appeared to be the which a champion of some plaes er senior. The reply was:

I am other does not figure.

T3 years old, sir."-

The Queen, noting the man's youthful

appearance, exclaimed, Seventy-three years young, you Their Majesties were photo graphed sitting in front of a group of work people each with a mini- mum of 45 years' service, and sur- rounded by officers of the company. The group was posed in front of

- [REUTER'S" "AMERIČAN SERVICE).

St. Louis, August 1st. Japan has eliminated Mexico and is thus entering the finals. Ohta beat Unda, 6-1, 44, 6-3, 6-4, and Harada beat Kinsey, 9-7, 6-0, 0-6,

8-1.

A GREAT GOLFER.

DEATH OF WALTER TRAVIS.

{LETTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)

DENVER, August lat. The death is anounced of Walter Travis, ex-Open Golf Champion.

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FUNERAL OF FREDDIE WELSH.

ESTATE WORTH G. $125,000.

[BEUTZE'S AMERICAN SERVICE),

NEW YORK, July 31st

WHEN NELSON WAS DEFEATED.

STILL CELEBRATED IN SANTA CRUZ,

SANTA CRUZ, Canary Islands,

July 25th. This port, the capital of the Canary Islands, celebrated the an Dual fete to-day in honour of the Spanish naval victory over Admiral | Nelson

There was dancing in the streets, fags and music. Each year on July The boxer Freddie Welsh has 23th the islanders honour the vit been buried here. The pall-bearers tory of Santa Cruz which occurred were other famous boxers, namely, one of the few defeats suffered by in 1797 The Besta commemorated Mickey Walker, Benny Lecard, Admiral Nelson: Mike McTigue, and Johnny Dundee. His brother announces that Fred die Welsh did not die in poverty: as was generally believed, but own- ed property in California, for

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an engine.

Later they drove to the Mansion House to take ten with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.

NEW REGIME IN SPAIN.

·DICTATORSHIP TO END.

THE KING'S DESIRE.

BIARRITZ

Local history books say that on that day, July 25th, 1797, Admiral Legislative Assembly will meet in It is believed that the, Spanish Nelson lost-300 men and his arm in October. Meantime the Govern a fight with 29 Spaniards.

In the Church of Concepcion, port of men prominent in science, ment is trying to secure the sup-

SECRET OF A BRITISH SUNDAY

SEVEN RULES FOR MARRIAGE.

PHILOSOPHY OF DIVORCE" COURT JUDGE.

Seven rules for a happy marriage are offered by Judge Joseph Sabath, of Chicago, who has pre- sided over no fewer than 2,000 divorce trials.

I am afraid it is rather a serious

He says that if the mothers of war-time babies in America or else where, unless, perhaps, in Ger-

food, wil: compare their offspring. many, where for a time there was some actual shortage of nourishing

monplace, indolent years, they will find their own quite as mentally statement to make.

alert and even perhaps especially The Widow I am not the He wishes all the talk about in bright and... na physically strong one who known he has been per ferior war-time babies might be secuted. The reason his speech was thick was because of his throat stopped. He believes it may pro At times he could scarcely speak duce unfortunate psychological The widow added that her huseffects upon the young people to

whom it refers. band, when he got home, said to her The Labour Party are de termined to get me out of my job. It is not worth the candle."

Mrs. Drinkwater added that her husband was afraid he was suffer- ing from cancer, and he had been There must be rules for every depressed, because two years ago game," says Judge Sabath; and he lost a responsible position in the matrimonial game will be a shipping office which he had held smoother if you remember that in for twenty-eight years.

sense you are being reincarnated; that you are beginning a new life, assimilating a new viewpoint, en- tering a new sphere.

The following seven rules in the judge's opinion contain the essence of a successful marriage:

WHAT THE POLICEMAN TOLD ner's mind, body and soul.

1. Keep in step with your part- A GERMAN.

BERLIN.

A German who arrived at New-

2. Remember that vulgarity and successful marriage mortal enemies.

ars

that destroys the germ of divorce. 3. Compromise is the antitoxin

4. To have mothers-in-law is

castle on a wet Sunday night has given the readers of the Front. urter Zeitung an account of his deplorable experiences in the city. Having nothing whatever to do, he tried to find a cinema. He writes is fatal. dolefully:-

The coroner returned a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind and said persecution had been men- tioned in such a way as to impart into the case that it might have been a factor in bringing about the man's state of mind.

HOUSING IN NEW YORK.

"CAVEMAN" CONDITIONS.

New York

THE MYSTERY OF MANX CATS.

[BY W. REDPATH-SCOTT, IN THE "DAILY MAIL"]

The Isle of Man has a little. export trade which is never men- tioned in the official returns. is the export of Manx cats, and it goes on steadily all through the

summer.

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It

Crossing from Douglas to Liver- pool last week I noticed that four women passengers in the ship were bringing back Manx cats as holiday souvenirs. Apart from the distinc- tion of being tailless Manx cats have a good reputation as mousers. But cats are not much in evidence on the Isle of Man. During a holi- fortunate, but to live with them are concerned, New Yorkers are

So far as light and ventilation day there recently I saw only one. Although so many Manx cats are is dangerous, and to criticise them dwelling in conditions fat inferior taken Away every summer by to London-in fact, many of them visitars, there is no sign of the Nothing, nothing,

6. Find out your beloved's ideas are living like the cave dwellers of breed dying out,

Several people nothing of matrimonial ethics before the pre-historie times. everything shut up. Sunday rest. wedding; "then make them the bazia

on the island make a business of A crowd of people were loitering of your love life.

This is not a statement by a rearing and selling them, and critical European tourist, but the I was told that a good specimen about and going into the public houses, which, illogically enough,and never go back to claim it. quiry by Mr. Lawrence Veiller.

8. Park your past as the altar before the City Commission of in- *****

substance of the evidence given | could be bought for da. were open. Children, waiting for. their dranken parents, played bo

How the Isle of Man came to 7. Courtship is the preparatory Secretary of America's National possess this race of tailless pats is fore the doors of these, pot-houses, school for the

collega of Housing Association, which is now a mystery. and theatres and cingmans were matrimony. The real study of the engaged in an effort to secure more sacrificed to Sunday rest.

art of love begins on the honey- and

There is a romantic theory that better tenements for the they are descendants of tailless The poor German asked a police moon and lasts a lifetime.

American metropolis New York man whether there was nowhere a

was pictured as an island surround at from Spain which escaped on theatre

to the island when two ships of ed by sky-scraper stockades which the Armada were wrecked of nothing:-

8panish Point, near Port Erin

or cinema. or concert

which he had refused an offer of encased in glass, there are two letters, and politics-with-a-view ball which was open. There was FRAGMENTS-OF- NIBELUN- Beverted the free play of air and

the

G.880,000,-also-real-estate-in New British flags said to have been cap to their collaborating with the As York worth G. $45,000.

tured by the Spanish in that en-eembly, without involving them in gagement.-Manila Times.

actual regime, but securing their moral assistance. The con sent of the cz-Premier, Senor Maura has just been obtained.

ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA,

BY AIR IN FOUR DAYS.

"Telegraphing from Lima (Pera),

LAST OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

LONDON, July 9th." Presiding at the 23rd annual

If the decree is supported by men of standing the King will pro- bably convoke the Assembly for October, and ita meeting is expect ed to effect definite advantages for

GEN MANUSCRIPTS FOUND.

in the buildings so encircled. I asked the policeman indign-

It

was agreed that no dwellings to

Some naturalista bold that the of Newcastle did on Sunday. The antly what the devil the people

be erected hereafter abould be sant

Manx cat is merely the result of a tioned unless the rooms, either by cross between an ordinary British giant bent down in a fatherly

facing the street or a court, have

ent and a rabbit. They point out BERLIN. way, touched manor the shoulder

that the hind legs of the taillese cat direct access to the outer suz Fragmente and said the classio

of a Nibelungen

are bigger than those of the As things are today, quite a word manuscript, which is believed to number of New Yorkers of the ordnary cat and much more like "Sweethearting. ed the English Bunday la A were discovered by Dr. Herman holes, regardless of the laws of theory is that the cats were original. He had sketch be one of the oldest in existence, working class live in dark, stuffy the hind legs of a rabbit. Another the Chicago Tribune Correspon-

single word, and délicately too. dant states that the Peruvian Gov-

Menhard, director of the Klagen health. Mr. Veiller said that in ly brought to the island from The German went sdly on his furt

Library, at Klagenfurt, England, there must be a space of Japan. preliminary effort to open ap by Fund, the Duke of Connaught an of transition from the present die

brilliantly lit-up cinema. the ancient handwritings of the New

An amusing-explanation, current air the vast territories east of nounced that the Light Brigade tatorship to the normal constitu- He darted in. The booking-office Carinthion archives.

York, between the Andes, in the Amaton basin (Balaclava) Fund, which they took tion.

five-storey Negotiations have been started, in over in 1802, had terminated with

was closed, but a door opened and The re-establishment of the con-

The fragments are written in the tents, so that the sun cas Manx cat was the last of the Lima, unofficially, to secure Brazi- the recent passing away of Troop stitution is ardently desired by the when the German asked if he could Middle Ages and are supposed to mended to the Commission that all tail, which was trapped when Noah dignified old man came out, and Bavarian-Austrian language of the pentrate for some part of the day animals to get into the Ark, and to the lower stories. It was recom. that its unpunctuality cost, it its lian co-operation, in an aerial Sergeant Major Edwin Hughes, King. General Primo de Rivera, buy a ticket explained that a meet- have belonged to a wandering min-new houses be equipped with a slammed the door. service for Amazonia. Peruvian late of the 13th Hussars, at the age who, has gained much in political ing was in progress to which any strel of the twelfth or thirteenth special window glass which allows and Basilan co-operation in a of 96, who was the last beneficiary influence, would probably he pious person may come in...

Baid the cat, and he was Manx, trans-Continental air service would of the Fund.

chosen, se Prime Minister,

century. They are closely written the ultra-violet rays to penetrateOh Captain Noch, waiti make possible the crossing óf- the-

political skill marks him out that I upset him with selections page and are witheat the ornate medical investigation are highly The German adds: “I am afraid in columns of thirty lines each on rays which, according to the latest continent from firma to Para ju

particularly capable of coping with of English swear words of which initials at the beginning of chap important for the preservation, four to five days, fostead of five

the problems which would ensue I have an unusually rich supply for tera, customary in manuscripts of health, and cure of many diseases, to ten weeks, as at present.

upon a change of government. a foreigner.'

a later period.

ernment is spending £50,000 in a meeting of the Royni Patriotic the country, regulating the period way and suddenly, to his surprise, Austria, while he was cataloguing eighty-two feet, not six feet, a Manx nurseries, "is that the

There seemed no doubt that be was the last surviving un-commis sioned officer who participated in the famous Charge.

His

including rickets

thanks I'll catch the mice to give you

And pay for being late

So the cat got"in-but oh

His tail was just too slow i-