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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Death of Hunter and Naturalist,

The donth has occurred on tho | Uganda-Congo border of Mr. B. P. do Wattovilio, a luntar- naturalist, who for 16 mouthn had boon in East Contral Africa {collecting specimons on behalf of

Borno Museum. Mr. do Watto-] ville was mauled by a lion, but Hived for 30 hours afterwards, At the time of his death his only companion was bis daughter, who declares hor intention of fivish- Ing her father's work.

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The tragic end of Bornord de Wattoville, artist and big-gamo hunter, will como as a bittor eurprise to a very small, but | devoted, numbar of friends. Sprung from an ancient aristo- |cratió family of Barno, in Switzerland, he had proservod In him all tho instincts and of the contury that coded the Revolution. Liko bis ancestors, who had scorned to recognize the democratic reglino which had beggared their family, The bad, ovon as a boy, conceived intense hatred of modern popu. lar government; ho shunned the crowd and its mannore as tho incarnation of evil. Just as many leaders of his family abandoned their country before the revolutionary tido in 1797 to take sorvice, together with a chosen band of their rotainers, Wattovillo's. Regimont" in tho | British Army, so Bernard took rofuge in hunting, shooting, and fishing to escape all contact with [the plebeian world.

MUCH ROAMING.

At first alone, then later with his dovolod daughter, he had roamed throughout Europo in search of sport. A Tornote and rough little farm in Norway, three days' march from the railway, had been for long his favourite homo where he brought jup his only daughter to observo naturo, to fish, and to shoot. Throo times ho had visited Africa. On this last occasion for two whole years father and daughter, alone and in the most faarlows fashion, had been shooting and collecting photographs of all the fauna of East Africa.

De Watteville's courago was shown in many ways. On one' occasion, while fishing along the Italo-Swiss frontior, ho was ue- cused of murdering a smugglor found dead on a lonely pass. Ho was threatened with a vendetta, whereupon, dragging with him a trombling policeman, he boldly went and er'srod the victim's) home, where he relatives wore in the act of preparing to sally forth to take the suppositious! murderer's life. Abashed by the dramatic entry of thoir intended quarry, they were left by Bernard convinced of his Innocence. Again, on the snow-I covorod Alps, father and daughter) may have been soon every wintori since the war ski-ing alone, ho always without hat and sticks. No slope, however rough or sleep, doterrod the pair: not Uvon sprains and painful falls inter- rupted what had bocomo a contest against nature. Life to Bornard, in fact, was but an opportunity to prove that the aristocrat of the | 18th contury was the superior of the modern man. To him the ordinary citizen of a so-called democratic State was but a dos- picablo slavo of his demagogic | mastor, Like the nobleman of Franco who smiled at the bowl- ing proletariat, so it is easy to imagine Bernard de Watteville |facing his end, for he was true to

type.

Ho had married, some 25 years ago, Beatrice, of the well-known Shropshire family of Beddogs.

CHINA'S WOMAN J. P.

Business in slowly oponing its doors to woman in China, said Mias E. D. Edwards, a teacher of Chinese, at a recent luncheon of the Soroptimist Club in London. Miss Edwards added that sho know of one woman, the wife of ja magistrato, who sat with her husband on the bench and decided tho latu of women offenders. 500,000,000 HERRINGS.

The catch of herrings at Yar- mouth this season, laat month, excoaded 500,000,000, which is more than 100,000,000. over the total catch last year, while fish- ing had yot several weeks to run.} Four hundred and fifty thousand | barrels had boon oured and 200,000, barrels exported. About two million horrings had then boon landed at the port of St. Ives, Cornwall, during one week and paokors and railway employses. were working at high prossuro. Tho fishouring houses bad to bo enlarged, and upwards of a hund- rod women and girls wore am- ployed kipporlog and boxing,

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