... green. Accrington has three parks, and will goon have four, but there is no public tennis ground in those grounds. To-day’s Nature Note: The past few days of warm sunshine (writes Mr 8. Banks, the Tod‘morden naturalist) have set everything going again after ...

... civilian in the Empire is gqualified. This is the first time the Order has been conferred upon an Englishman. To-day’s Nature Note: With what magic touch (writes Mr 8. Banks, the Todmorden naturalist) have the woods come into leaf during the past week ...

... wearing a coat with gold lace and gold buttons costing £6O, and it eatitles him to attend the Khedive's levees. Today's Nature Note: Since my last note (writes Mr 8. Banks, the ‘T'odmorden naturalist), the copper and gold that had been strewn lavishly ...

... one period and then to have the mills closed for weeks at a stretch, or working two or three days per week.” | To-day’s Nature note: On the secluded parts oi the River Ribble (writes ‘“ Pica Rustica,” Accrington), where the water runs shallow and smooth ...

... beginning of the new century, over 50,000 competitors have been attracted, incurring a total expenditure of £12,000, To-day’s Nature Note (by Mr 8. Banks, of Portsmouth, near Todmorden): Now that the trees stand naked and bare, the few Scotch firs are to be ...

... of this remarkable example of * how not to do it,” by declining to convict the car-driver brought before him. To-day’s Nature Note: Gannets, or Solan geese, nest on the Bass Rock, the islet in the Firth of Forth, in great numbers, and puffins, guillemots ...

... voting was as follows: For political action, 8,863; against, 5,186; blank papers, 1,748; spoiled papers, 20, ® To-day’s Nature Note: Mr Thomas Pickles, of Cairo Mills, Burnley, has been raising in the ‘“ Scotsman ” the theory discussed some time ago in ...

... Committee has, hy the way, decided that the Marshall Library shall be kept open during the September hodidays. To-day's Nature Note: To see a thrush struggling with a large snail shell in order to get at the tenant is an interesting sight. A “ Scotsman ...

... watering of roads. Btill, the salt-water idea suggests an alternative to tar spraying, which has many antagonists. To-day’s Nature Note.—Mr S. Banks writes from the Calder Valley: At last the sunshine is ours once more. Although many of the blossoming trees ...

... approach to them are both embetantial end highly artistic. Nothing better can be found in the United Kingdom. ' To-day's Nature Note: The first nip of frost (writes Mr S. Banks, of Portsmouth, near Todmorden) has set the dry leaves whirling in the air, ...

... swam out to their assistance. Eventually the three, all in a very exhausted condition, were picked up by a boat. To-day’s Nature Note: Admirers of the bird life at Hesketh Park, Southport, will note with regret that the male black swan, which has sailed ...

... to the A.-sizes when Quarter could dispose of them just as well—and possil‘ly ensure a more expeditious trial. To-day's Nature Note: A Su. , -ses teetor ported in the London Times yesterday that be has seen two ssallows on his lawn this week, in regard ...