... :ort-which has been given by the widow H endrika Kloppert to L ord Roberts in token of her g ratitude to him for bringing the war to an end. Much pleasanter is it to regard the quilt, the most peaceable article in the world, as an omen and as a sign of the ...

... before the war. They voluntariiy instead of Dutch ! \iVhen last of the and brought in, surprised he has been fighting the rooineks his been getting on with their lessons God Save the King right \ iVe may have, as Kipling says, South Africa in matters ...

... agriculture has httle to hope forfrom Parliament in the session now starting. The omens are that the discussions will be about war, war, and we are getting to the tail end of an administration, and the life that remains to the Ministry is not likely to be There ...

... R. 11. J. \V l liGHAi\l, sometime amateur golf champion of the nitcd States, has just returned to this country from South Africa, where he has been serving as corresponuent of the Daily Ile brings home thank> from General Baden-Powell for the 11/ai/. ...

... that they have respected throughout the war. There can be no question but that the terms offered for enlistment in General Baden-P owell's police force are very attractive to any intending colonists of South Africa, giving them just the time to look about ...

... Lord Kitchener; and finally Mr. Bennet Burleigh, who certainly would not leave South Africa if there were the remotest chance of seeing any more fighting, since war is as the breath of his nostrils, From all t~lese bas cabled home to say' that he is returning ...

... bshion for ladies to be in South Africa, and the fashion \Yill be followed, even though one should rise from the dead to protest ac:rainst it. as the great millinery shops ex hibit in tJ7eir ~·indows costumes for South Africa, Mr. Treves may \i\Then these ...

... to make any golfer talk about the weather, and to language not strictly Parliamentary, one does not know what F rom South Africa, whence, for the moment, so little of Last week we were· discussing, with many plaints, the Since that date, though it is ...

... objects it has pursued in South Africa also. There is very nearly as good a case to be made for the pro- Chinese as for the pro-Boer. H e is quite sure that his country is wrong under all 819 ~~ e have news from the war of the bagging of two guns, a species ...

... this it is growing abundantly clear that our troops in South Africa are, in many cases, getting stale and weary of the work, and that some change of regiments, from India to Africa, and from Africa to India, would be distinctly advantageous. We have had to ...

... fact, nobody who has been in South Africa can confidence. In fact, nobody who has been in South Africa can understand the moods of the public at home, which alternate between cheery optimism, with a belief that the war will end in a moment, and blank despair ...

... are told, gone to South Africa to fight, and, perhaps incidentally, to make further experiments with the golf ball in that clear climate. It is wonderful what a number of fine athletes in the various branches are in South Africa now. The authorities that ...