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Popularity of the "Zoo."" It seems likely that for a third year in succession the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardons will surpass all, previous reoorde. The attendance for the half-year ended on June 30 was 500,101, as compared with 508,003 for the corresponding period last year, and as the second half of the year includes the favourite holiday months, the number of visitors is always greater than in the first half.-Times.

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The Army in India. It is understood that Lieut.- General Sir Percy Lake, K.O.M.G., will shortly be given the command of the Northern Army in India,' and that Lieut.- General O. A. Anderson, CB, now commanding the Seventh Meerat Division, will replace Sir

Peroy Lake Chief of the General Staff in Tádia. No final decision on the matter, however, has yet been reached,

A Matter of Colour,

A friend of mine (cays a writer in the Liverpool Post) is a curata in a local auburban parieb, Some little time back he went up to

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Oxford to take his MA. degree, CAN ENGLISH OFFICERS comen the sourry of hoofs and and the following Sunday

disconcerting rattle of timber as appeared in the pulpit resplen-

the second fence is knocked down. dent in his new M.A. hood. A

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and the next; and you need not hear his bostess pleasantly remark,

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Beys the Advocate of India :— | humiliating; butitis what happene imagine whyover you, with your Year after year the International at least four cases put of five; complexion, chose red of all Horse Show at Olympia revives and beuse the cases of an- colours in the world. A myrtle the question

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English successful riding are so many, the green or an old gold would have officers ide as well as foreign better displays are apt to be Anited you much batter, and would ones?" Year after year we see the overlooked. It requires more have been for more eff stive. You big prizee for jumping carried off thought than the average onlooker men never know how to dress by Roseisus, Frenchmen, Italian Inclined to give to the subject yourselves!"

or Belgiane, and year after year, to realiad that the foreign officers Aviation Accident at Yokosuka, too, the audience at Olympin who do so well are half a dozen! A Yokosuka message ya that is treated to the unhappyerno representatives from the after the ceremony at the Oppama spectacle

enthusiastic different competing autions, and i Aerodrome, in honour of the young officere of the British that in each case they represent anniversary of the demise of Army mounted on raw, ill the pick of their nation's ovilry, the late Emperor, Lieuten- trained horses, blundering roun A great mimy of the British ants Inouye and Nawapo, the arena, tumbling through | fhirers ought never to enter the inval aviators, gave an exbibi ion obstacles over which the foreign. Breus at Olympia at all. That fight. While they were preparing competitors soar without touch they do so is doubtless a tribute to alight, the m chino inclined aling_strok, and generally their sportsmanship and zeal; great deal, and from a height of speaking, making a far poorer but it also means four onspicuous about thirty metros it fell down show in the sing than ever theyBitish failures for one moderate into the ses. A boat was at once would make if they were follow-ucce; which produces n put off to rescue the two officers, ing bounds,

| decidedly bad impression, who were both slightly injured. And that, incidentally, "is the. With regard, however, to the The propeller and other parte of first and greatest of the mistakes British officers who do show op the mnohine were badly damaged, made by many of car officer well, we have said that they are Woman's New Sphere." They ride us Olympia in the in no way inferior to the best of A striking improvement bas style they would employ Borom sheir foreign rivale. And, despise been effected in the average country; and a man may be a the almost unbroken successes of echool attendance at Taunton first-class 'oras-country horse- the foreignera at their expense, we through the employment of woman, and his mount an excellen: mintain this view. Leutenant men as attendance officers, fencer; and yat neither of them Geffrey Brooke's surces over

Jane 499 10 Eighteen months ago the average have the remotest notion of show the famous Russian officer, Cap

6.8 12 for the whole of the school in jumping." The conditions are tai D'Ere, is not the only reason

July (t) 27th).... 7.7 7 the borough was as low as 844, utterly different, as m'iny a young for m king this claim. Lieutenant

It is hoped that the introduction but at a meeting of the Borough subaltern whos, charger can carry Malise Gaham, Lieutenant

of the water supply will help Education Committee it was rehim well to hounds, has found to Richards, Colonel

Quasiderably in reducing the Kenna- ported to have reached 93.3. The his cost. But it would be an in-uny оде of these rides

number of cases of dysentery, There has been a good deal of which is principally a school medical officer, Dr. H. J. justice to say that none of the well, by which we dysentery in Bangkok of late and burne disease. According to an water Alford, in a report presented at British officers who compete at mena gets the best out

of his the same meeting, stated shat Olympia are aware of this fact: barse, helps it over its fences, and suffered from this omplaint. Medicine the complaint has been quite a number of Carapenos have article in the Journal of Tropical the health of the children was One could pick out five or six, at maintains a perfect understanding Dysentery is endemic in diam, robbed of many of its dangers by very good, and consequently the losst, whose horsemanship is not with it, as the best Russian and oases are found in every the new method of treating by attendance was very high. "I am a whit inferior to that of the French, or Belgian horsemen that month of the year. The monthe injecting emetino. By this method convinced," he added, "that this, Continental officere. But there ever bestrode pigskin.

in which most c880s occur are many of the complications which combined with the following up are so many English riders who The reason they do not carry of of the children and sending them make a poor, and even a ridical the prizes is that the facilities May, June, July and August, and are likely to follow in the train back to school when fit to go, our show, that the impression they receive for schooling their with fewest casas are the hot dry as for example, liver abscess, again in November. The monthe of dysentery are much lessened, greatly helps in increasing the apon the spectator is that none of horses are not to be cumpared months of February March and chronic ulceration of the bowels, very satisfactory percentage of the Englishmen can ride. One with those enjoyed by foreign April. The rise in November is etc. Sinos emetine has been re- attendances, mainly due as this can tell, even with the eyes oloset, fficers; who in the majority of probably due to the flooding cognised in the treatment, of is to the energetic work of your whether the competitor in the case 18241 sheir horses eimply which occurs at this time of the dysentery it has been used at the TRON, STEEL, METAL and HARD WE are the loading Manufacturers in

bool attendance officers," jumping events is a Briton or as potential prize-winners at the year. A similar ise it may be Police Hospital with uniformly Daily News

not: Shut your eyes as the coach International Horse Show; and voted occurs in cases of typhoid satisfactory

and Real Ironmongers, Pig Iron and Gingers are all fresh and of the first pick- mark Rejection of Latin Motto, horn announces the entry of a order their lives simoly to that fever, which reaches its maximum Times.

results-Bangkok Foundry Coke Importers, GeneralBtore Our Syrup is prepared from, the beat www Luo oboies of a motto to go fresh compositor. You hear the end. Most of Je English mounts, in June and there is another

keepers and Bhipohandlers, Nos. 35 and quality of Sugar. We give our special with the coat of arme recently great doors open-d, the rattle of on the other hand, have regi small rise in November and Dee

37, Hing Loong Street, (2nd Street was attention to our businem, and sanitary of Central Market Telephons No. 515, arrangements, adopted by the L. C. O. was hoofs in the outer yard, and per mental work to da and receive ember The return of cases of

Chinese in the F.M.5. disotiesed at a recent meeting of hope a startled snort as the horse haphazard schooli or jumps in dysentery admitted to the rolice Ipob, Aug. 5.As a result of the Council. The General Par-meetathe glare of dithe | between their duties, poses Committee recommended electric light. Then comes And, as everyone knows, the years agrees wonderfully with the of Perak the Chinese Consul (ai, gryn's

Hospital during the last fifteen an interview with the Resident that the motto should be Zoes the drum of flying feet on foreigners generally ride English recorded deaths from dysentery in General in the Straits has promis dulcedo nos qttinet ("The sweet-the tan, a second's panee, sporadic bred horses, bought at enormous Bangkok during the years 2453-ed the Government to do all in Inces of the place bolde us"). Sir clapping and cheering from the prices. There, in effect, lies the 2156. People have been under bis power to prevent any distur John Bonn said that he wanted a sudience, a resumption of the crux of the whole question. We the impression that cases are in hance amongst mining coolies.- motto which could be read by the dramming, another pause as the have the ridera; we have the ereasing but the death rate per Free Press. p

man in the street." It was second obstacle is cleared, and so horees; but until money can 1,000 over the period referred to eventually dooided to instruct the on, till a mighty hart of cheering bring the two together, and time is as follow committed to submit a motto, in announces that the round has been can be expended on the schooling Loglish, north draped completed. If you open your of the latter exclusively for A Now Indian: Rallway, eyes, if is ten to one that you will: spectacular jumping, England Under writing Arrangements see the bite tnaio and gair-laced cannot hope to carry of the wore in progress in connexion kept of a Franch or Belgian trophies of the International with the lens of 120,000 shores cfficer vanishing through the big Hose Show."

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