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PATENT CISTERN FILTERS, Charged Solely with ANIMAL CHARCOAL

... , Requiring, when once fixed, no attention whatever. House Cistern, fitted THE LATEST PATENTED FILTER IN GENERAL USE. Portable Cistern with a Cistern Filtor. And superior to all others. Vide Professor Frankland's Report to the Filter. Registrar-General, July, 1866, November, 1867, and May, 1870. Tho Lancet, January 12, 1867, and Testimonials from Dr. Hassall, September 23, 1863 Dr. Letheby, ...

TIGER-SHOOTING FROM THE HOWDAH

... TIGER-SHOOTING FROM THE HO WD AH. THE most favourable time for hunting all kinds of large game in India is during the hot season, as by April or May most of the grass and rank under-growth is burnt up in the jungle, and the intense heat of the sun has so dried up the face of the country that the water supply is reduced to its lowest ebb; consequently the felidœ, driven by thirst, leave the ...

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... Just published. A QUIET CORNER OF ENGLAND O- Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Rye, Winchelsea. and Romney-Marsh. By Basil Champ- neys. With numerous Illustrations. In imperial 8vo, price 12s. Grf. Cloth. Mr. Champneys here gives us some veiy pleasant sketches, by pen and pencil, which it requires some education to appreciate. Spectator. .'A Quiet Corner ought to bo as popular with ...

BEAR-HUNTING IN THE NIZAM'S TERRITORY

... . Continued from page 438.) THERE were sounds of revelry in the camp throughout the live long night, and the nantch was prolonged until the small hours, consequently few showed up at the usual time in the breakfast-tent, notwithstanding one of the Shekarries of the Zemindar of Bhoonghir brought in intelligence that a leopard and several bears were marked down. However, somewhat later in the ...

GARRY

... . THE foreign sporting and non-sporting classes at our prin cipal dog shows often contain some very interesting specimens, and we have seldom seen a finer one than Garry, whose por trait we give. He is the property of Mr. Alfred Swinbourn, and was purchased at Fort Garry, Manitobah, North America, when about three months old. He is now just over two years, and his measurements are as follow:-- ...

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... %8SS. o TO CORRESPONDENTS. Problem No. G9. Correct solutions received from H. R. Deane, R. W. S., H. Slater, W. P., Barnstaple. E. D. C. Problem No. GO cannot be solved by the method you propose. Look at the position again. H. A. L. You must have made some mistake in playing- over the game. The Bishop cannot be played to Q B 7, as there Is a Black Pawn at Q :5. H. Slater. We really cannot ...

THE DEWHURST PLATE

... the DEWHURST PLATE. WHEN the conditions of the Middle Park Plate, which was founded by the late Mr. Blenk iron, were remodelled, and a number of our principal breeders of blood stock determined to de vote a percentage on the amounts realised by the sale of their year lings to the maintenance of what in recent years has come to be considered the premier two-year-old contest of the season, Mr. ...

LA CHASSE IN FRANCE

... . A prefect may refuse a license (1) to any person who is of age, but not on the register, or whose father or mother is not enrolled as a taxpayer; (2) to every individual who has been deprived by judicial sentence of one or more of the rights enumerated in clause 42 of the Penal Code other than the right to carry arms; (3) to anyone who has been condemned to more than six months imprisonment ...