... THE late harvest meant a correspondingly late start for cubbing in most areas, but now, with the opening of the season proper, some 200 hunts in Britain are beginning their activities in earnest. Many of the younger Masters and hunt servants have returned from military service, many new faces are seen in the field and the co-operation of the British farmer without which hunting would be ...

... j i THE sum of 1,000 guineas was paid for a bull, a second prize winner, at the two-day show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns at Reading. Top price for females on the first day was 360 guineas, 59 pedigree females averaging £168 7s. 2d., and three grading register females, £114 2s. Among the many buyers were several from Northern Ireland, including representatives from the Ulster Dairy School and ...

... THE third Annual Show and Sale of Pedigree Shire Foals and Shire Mares and Fillies was held on Haydock Park Racecourse (Lanes.) under the organising body's curious title National Pedigree Shire Foal Produce Stakes. It was an excellent Show, well supported by a large com mittee and backed by sixteen patrons and eighty- three vice-presidents. Twenty-four entries were catalogued in the colt foal ...

... LAWN TENNIS AN E SQUASH: Angela Denin Cheltenham and St. Hilda's u captain of both teams. LAWN TENNIS R. W. Baker (Tasmania and Lincoln is a Rhodes Scholar reading Law. RUGBY FOOTBALL John Oswald Newton Thompson Stellenbosch University and Trinity), an ex-Fighter Pilot in S.A.A.F. Got his rugger blue as a Freshman and his cricket blue last June. CROSS COUNTRY Eric Mackay (Uppingham and Wadham) ...

... Restoration of the Guildford club when the premises were no longer required to be used as a barrage balloon factory is a triumph. It is a triumph over a supply order that could not permit wood to be used for the work as well as for the Surrey smith whose hand wrought the iron artistically fashion ing the interior and the front door. Behind the ironwork of the front door is a glass panel, lit ...

... Women j Power Town and Country Kitchen Planning NOW that the incomparable clean liness and convenience of power replaces elbow-grease and robots the vanished domestic staff, women everywhere take a keen in terest in the maintenance of their kitchen kit. Last week one hundred and fifty Electrical Housecraft Ad visers and senior saleswomen from all over Great Britain held a three day conference ...

... Wensleydale and Wharf edale By ASHLEY COLRTENAY THE normal route taken by motorists, southward bound from Penrith, is by Kendal, Lancaster and Preston, or via Brough and over Bowes Moor to Scotch Corner and thence down the Great North Road. Here is a pleasurable diversion for those who have time to amble and halt awhile. Good surfaced roads little frequented, fells, dales, and every now and ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. U.S. Elections.--The worst feature of the U.S. General Election is that when the tumult and the shouting die, the nation will not return to normal. On the contrary, election fever or party feeling can only be stimulated by the result. And that may prove a poor look-out for U.N.O. and for American influence in world affairs. The result is well known now. It was ...

... ^PMlT*ifT] I iM iV; ^b*j C unday, November 10, was the first Remembrance Day in Great Britain and the Common wealth Remembrance Day for two World Wars and just before the Two Minutes' Silence the King unveiled the new inscrip tions on the Cenotaph in White hall, thereby dedicating the memorial also to those who died in 1939-45. The deeply impressive ceremony was witnessed by a crowd at least 5 ...

... T1 o-day Czechoslovakia stands at the cross-roads of European affairs. She is essentially the link between Soviet Russia and the demo cracies of the West, and fittingly enough she has a Coalition Ministry largely consisting of Communists and the Christian Democrats and Social National ists who represent Liberal opinion in the country. Since Mr. Klemmens Gottwald, the Communist Prime Minister, ...

... 'PATENT' BARLEY I may look old-fashioned says OLD H ETHERS but I'm all for modern methods yes, even when it comes to making barley water You don't imagine I use the old-fashioned pearl barley, do you, when there's a tin of Robinson's 'Patent' Barley in the shop round the corner? Not me, madam. There's no stewing and straining with Robinson's it's so fine- ground. Just follow the simple ...

... Jarevueli ri/)i llionaired The Exchequer Has Mitked The Rich Of £629,599,000 In The Past Seven Years In Death Duties Alone By L W. Phelps-Orion FAREWELL, a long farewell, to the sterling millionaire. The really rich are fading fast from the English scene. Before the war 1,024 people in Britain could comfortably count their assets as at least a million. To-day this wealthy class has dwindled-- ...