... THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SUCH CROWDS AS THESE could have been supplied with a cup ot piping hot from the Bovril sold on a single day recently. Bovril repels Influenza and resists Colds and Chills. Crowds know it ...

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... . The weather has been so wintry that the Naval and Military Tournament, which the King visited on May 17, has distinctly scored by being held under cover beneath the spacious roof of Olympia. The King afterwards went to Reigate to spend a quiet Whitsun with Captain Greville. 1 ne JJuue anci mucness or rue stayed.iu town, going on Saturday evening to Drury Lane to see the fine Red Indian ...

... The lease of the pearl fisheries of Ceylon to a syndicate gives Mr. Somers Somerset the chance of writing a capital article in the current issue of The Nineteenth Century. liv the terms ol the lensp the lovprn- ment is now entitled to a rent for twenty years of 310,000 rupees a year, and is to be saved an expenditure which in 1903 amounted to 220,000 rupees. The rent is therefore more than ...

... . 1 1 111 1 ■-.II K, 1 1 1 1 The red-backed shrike, or butcher bird, is to be found in most parts of Europe. It is a migratory bird and is plentiful in Africa and most parts of Asia. In Great Britain they are not plentiful. The nest is a large structure, cup-shaped and built from grass roots, bents, moss, wool, and lined with hair and fine fibres. The eggs, four or five in number, are very ...

... THE KING'S HIGHLAND HOLIDAY From TnaIl ...

... . A picture is given of the cadets returning to Osborne with their trunks. The cruiser, Cumberland, embarked at Plymouth last week the first batch of cadets, about sixty in number, under the new training scheme, for a cruise in the Mediter ranean. They will return in December for the Christmas holidays. Plying at the Submarine Depot sports at Haslar last week was a submarine flag designed by ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Great New Street, London, E.C., July 31, 1907. The King after a very busy week, during which he went to Hampstead, was present on Saturday for the first time at Newbury races, motoring thence to Taplow for the week-end. On Saturday he reviews the Home Fleet at Cowes, and we illustrate the fleet dia grammatically in this issue.. On Monday he comes up from Cowes to ...

... WHERE BRITAIN LEADS-the largest liner Tlhe B&qimpmeiit tilfo C^niniaiFdlir9 as 99 On Saturday last the greatest vessel which has ever lloated on the waters of this planet started on a trial trip round the coast of Ireland. The great twenty-five- knot Cunarder, Lusitania, which is to get back for Great Britain the blue ribbon of the Atlantic, set out from the Clyde and sailed round the west ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Great New Street, London, E.C., May 15, 1907. There seems to be a general consensus of opinion that the season is to be a very brilliant one. It has opened well with the visit of Prince Fushimi, who took leave of the King on Monday and forthwith became merely a private traveller. Yesterday he visited Cambridge and dined with the Japanese ambassador in the evening. ...

... The most important piece of news of late days is the announcement that an agreement is practically though not formally concluded between France and Japan for the mutual guarantee of their Far-Eastern possessions and the preservation of peace in Asia. That some such arrangement was desirable and probable was an obvious inference from the settlement of disputes arising out of the Treaty of ...

... .FngltnMpg ttlb ILcDcennstts Recent telegrams from South Africa announced that millions of locusts were upon the move in the Transvaal. They settled upon Johannesburg in unprecedented swarms. At first they were merely regarded as an unnecessary visitation. Later on, when the streets became littered with thousands of dead insects, the affair developed into an active and almost intolerable ...