... and gave all the advice and assistance possible. The intention of the party is to sail as far North as Franz-Josef Land, and then land the stores and proceed by means of sledges drawn by Esquimaux dogs, establishing en route food-depots, which can be ...

... few weeks will be leaving London for the magnificently bracing air of that district of the Eastern counties known as Poppy Land, might do worse than peruse a very interesting little pamphlet by Mr. George Beckett, who is, I believe, a prosperous trader ...

... domestic comedy is laid on the Royal Yacht Squadron Landing Place. The Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York also fell unconscious victims to the smartness of the demon. The Princess has landed first, and is waiting for the Duchess, who is just being ...

... Govern ment have now taken action in the matter, and landed a quantity of mate rial for the purpose. The passage to St. Kilda is usually somewhat rough, but it has been the want of a proper landing-stage more than anything else that has been a deterrent ...

... mother, the Comtesse de Paris, may be said to have first made shooting popular among Englishwomen, for, as a young married woman, she always used to accompany the guns while staying at Sandringham and even now, when sending presents of game to her friends ...

... interesting of all is the fact that it was the woman who raised the Gordons who presented colours to London Town, for the Duchess of Gordon introduced tartan. The Duchess, you may remember, was a very remarkable woman. one bore iter husband, the fourth Dulce ...

... without occasioning much remark. I see that Sir Francis and Lady J eune started last week to make a series of visits in Scot land, and that they made the journey north in their motor-car. which thev had used a ereat deal during the summer. No doubt it is ...

... to much publicity. Miss Rothschild is a fair girl, tall with a good figure and very bright and amiable. She is a good horse woman, and has often been out with her father's stag-hounds. She is a great favourite in society and also in the neighbour hood of ...

... cavalryman. He joined the Army twenty- seven years ago. It is a curious coincidence that both cavalry regiments engaged at Eland's Laagte were Fifths the only Fifths of the thirty-one cavalry regiments in the British Army for, besides the Royal Irish ...

... being flogged and forgot to howl, is thinking about something else. THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS LANDING AT DURBAN A FIRST loon: round. THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS .LANDING AT DURDAN CLAIMING KIT. It hii3 been suggested that the war in the Transvaal will play havoc ...

... Leiningen stood to the Queen in almost as tender and near a relation as if she had been her own daughter. As a young married woman she was a great deal in this country, and her eldest child, a daughter, Princess Albertina Victoria, was actually born at Osborne ...

... DORSET REGIMENT. Photo Lambert Wot Son. C 1Q07. Colonel C. II. Law, Commanding 2nd Battalihn, Dorset Regiment, entered the army in 1868 and has ha I command of his regiment since 1897. ITc was in the Afph serving in the Khyber division. H PS a 9 a o a ...