... SPORT ON THE NORTHERN MOORS An Average Grouse Season Although several moors were not shot over in the opening week, the season may now be said to be well under way. On the whole, too, the moderately encouraging reports as to prospects published a short while ago have not proved altogether wide of the mark. These annual prognostications are either wildly optimistic or intensely depressing as a ...

... . By R. P. Hearne. Last week I had an opportunity of inspecting the Arrol-Johnston motor sleigh which Lieutenant Shackleton used on his Antarctic expedition. Care was taken to preserve the car in the condition found at the close of the journey, and on a broiling hot August day one looked in some wonderment at this stained and roughly- used car which had been through extremes of cold such as we ...

... THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Grrat New Street London, E.C., August 4. The first day of Goodwood was a uniquely wet day even amid the appalling weather which has recently visited this island for the past two months. Only mackintoshes and overalls were to be seen on the first day, but matters brightened up towards the end of the meeting, when it was possible to obtain some instantaneous ...

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... BANK-HOLIDAY WEEK-- A PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN JAPAN. GAZING AT A RELIC OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR The Japanese, like ourselves, are not without their public holidays, and here we see a group of them taking advantage of their leisure by examining one of the powerful Russian guns captured by the Japanese Army at Port Arthur, which capitulated on January 2, 1905, The Russians, it will be remembered, ...

... . By Po Hearrae. It is a matter of peculiar satisfaction to the. automobile world that M. Blériot should have succeeded first in flying across the Channel. As the inventor of the re nowned Blériot head lamps his name has long been familiar to motorists, and they consequently took a deep interest in his aeronautical progress. Fortune has given M. Bleriot his just award, though a short time ago ...

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... THE REVOLUTION AT BARCELONA °Xe °f Communications with Barcelona were restored on Monday, and it was then possible to ascertain something of what had been occurring during the temporary revolution which brought trade to a standstill in Spain's great industrial city. The number of dead has been estimated at about 2,000. 1 nis large estimate noes not agree with the more detailed telegram, which ...

... JONG EDWARD'S GUEST Tlhe Cssvr ainidl 11ms Fasmly all C@we. At Cherbourg-- The Czar with the French President At Cowes-- The Czar Arriving on the Standart The Russian Royal Family on their Way to Cowes The Czar's reply to King Edward at Cowes: The magnificent review which I witnessed to-day bears full testimony to England's greatness. The grand sight of the Home and Atlantic fleets has ...

... A FRIEND OF QUEEN VICTORIA- THE LATE SIR THEODORE MARTIN Sir Theodore Martin, who died on Wednesday morning at Bryntysilio, near Llangollen, was best known as the biographer of the Prince Consort, but his most lasting work was in the region of translation, his version of Goethe's Faust and his translations of Virgil and Horace being among the best that have been made. Sir Theodore was bom in ...

... LONDON IN THE SOCIAL DOLDRUMS. The Closed Theatres Owing to the continu ous sitting of Par liament through these August days the London season closed unusually late. Some attempt will be made by the theatres at least to compel the new season to begin unusually early. All the guide book's tell us that the London theatres are mostly closed in August and September. There are many open during this ...

... MEN WHO LOOK DOWN ON US THE GREAT FLOCKING TOGETHER OF FLYING MEN IN FRANCE. I The aviation week at Rheims, which has been looked forward to with intense interest by all connected intimately or remotely with aeronautics, begins to-morrow, Sunday, August 22. Great preparations were made at Rheims for the reception of the flying machines, and a large number of the most famous flying men of the ...