... J-- J anover Square was built as a fashionable place of residence in 1718. It is now almost entirely commercial. The famous Hanover Square Rooms stood on the site of No. 4. Beau BrummeU's celebrated inquiry concerning the Prince of Wales Sherry, who's your fat friend? is said to have been made at the Hanover Square Rooms, which later were renamed the Queen's Ancient Concert Rooms and used as ...

... CYom the French greyhound tracks come five of the seven greyhounds in M. Baudy's team, and the other two dogs are Spanish. As for Henri, the monkey, he is a cosmopolitan, and greyhounds of any nationality come alike to him, provided they take kindly to his favourite sport of steeplechasing. M. Baudy's act, which came to London this week, after visiting the Provinces, has been put on at the ...

... The GOLDSMITHS SILVERSMITHS COMPANY LTD The GOLDSMITHS SI LVERSMITHS COMPANY LTD In ter national W 1 ate lies giving of a fine quality watch conveys a delicate compliment. It is fitting therefore that such a present should be endowed with the attributes of good taste and reliability. For the first time in many years the world famous INTERNATIONAL WATCHES are now available in this country and ...

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... THE Red Poll Society report increasing interest in their Reading Shows. The recent Spring Show attracted many buyers and sellers from the West and South, where the Red Poll is popular because of its suitability for the bail system of milking. One hundred and two head (76 females and 26 bulls) of attested cattle averaged £152 3s. 4d. Vendors included Lady Palmer, whose husband, the late Sir ...

... I Lakeland a! i Eastertide THE majority of holiday-makers are obliged to wait until summer for their annual vacations. The fells in spring are very lovely for those mostly from the North and Midlands who are able to walk through the hills and dales of this unspoiled corner of England. It is a wonderful country for young people, and happy indeed are those groups, such as our young Austrian ...

... Oil Long Hitting EVERY golfer, whatever his actual standing in the world of golf, would be untruthful if he did not admit that he gets a real kick out of hitting an extra good one one off the meat, or, as they say in America, one on the nose. How far it goes depends on one's own timing, limited directly by the amount of speed one can impart to the club-head, and that is dependent on the ...

... BY keeping pigs in harness. Brigadier E. G. Warren, C.B.E., of the Northampton- shire Regiment (retired), plans on his eleven-acre County Limerick holding to show how more bacon can be produced. Pigs, he says, do not gain enough weight when they wander where they like they damage fences and time is lost rounding them up. The remedv A harness. This is made of two straps. One fits over the pig ...

... THE large entry of 129, the obvious enthusiasm of the record number of spectators, and the high quality of the majority of the horses at the Shire Horse Show, organised by the Shire Horse Society at Derby, was a healthy indication that this famous breed is as popular as ever. It may well be that the decline in heavy-horse population generally in recent years has at last been regarded as a ...

... IN an effort to increase pig and poultry production, by encouraging wider small- scale as distinct from big-scale produc- tion by pig and poultry specialists, the Ministry is reopening the scheme which they introduced last October, for stock kept on agricultural holdings of over one acre. This scheme will come into operation on May I. Belated applications held since last October by County ...

... THESE eight Jersey calves were flown from St. Peter Airport, Jersey, to Nakuru in Kenya, calling at Blackbushe on the way to collect another fourteen calves of various breeds for the same destination. The Jersey consignment consisted of animals sent by Mr. H. W. Jean, Mr. E. F. Vibert, Mr. P. H. Brideaux, Messrs. Van de Vliet Bros., Mr. A. Barette, Mr. G. R. Le Masurier, Mr. C. D. Poignand and ...

... THE PARADE: Lord Bicester1 s Roimond (Aubrey Brabazon) teas undoubtedly the class horse of the field. He is foUotced by Miss Paget' s handsome Happy Home Cloncarrig and the favourite, Lord Mild may's Cromwell with his intrepid owner in the saddle RUSSIAN HERO, bred and owned by a Cheshire farmer, Mr. W. F. Williamson, and brilliantly ridden by L. McMorrow, won the coveted Aintree trophy in ...