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I NEWS NOTES. It was a great pity that the King should be to unfortunate as to catch a slight chill at the grand military torchlight tattoo at Aldershot on Saturday night, which brought on an attack of lumbago and interfered with his Majesty's programme for Monday's Review on Lallan's Plain. But the Prince of Wales was ready to step in and take the Royal Salute, and the hope is that the King will feel nothing more of the temporary seizure, which occasioned some little inconvenience to all concerned. The erratic weather has been responsible for a good many upsets in outdoor functions and the health of those engaged therein this sea- son, and one sometimes wonders whether it will ever settle to the normal again. When Spring and Summer came on tardily the talk used to be in Poet's Land of Winter lingering in the lap of May." Now the sarcastic say that next Winter has this season come on earlier than it ought to have done I The numberers 'of the Boer fighters have proven to be very poor mathematicians. Our War Secretary calculated last November tnat there were 10,000 Boers in the field. Since that time Lord Kitchener's weekly reports show that 8000 have been accounted for, leaving, accord- ing to the War Secretary's computation, only 2000 Boers to surrender. Of these 2000 16,500 have nowlaid down their arms! Wherein lies the concord of this discord ? We underestimated the Boer strength badly at the beginning of the war which is happily now over, and we seem to have gone on underestimating him to the end! It is very pleasing, however, to witness that now the burghers are once convinced of the hopeless- ness of further resistance to Britain, they are determined to transform themselves into loyal sons and subjects of the Empire. It is far better to have men like De Wet and Delarey on our side than against us. There is talk of the great masters of mobile fighting visiting England. If they come they may be assured of honourable and appreciative welcome. London is in the last throes of its great Coro- nation preparation, and all is abandonment to the patriotic ideal of festival and celebration. What is wanted now is a few days of ideal bright June weather, to make glad the hearts of all who have flocked to the Empire's pivot for the crowning of the King and Queen. Only this and nothing more is requisite to render the pageants memorable beyond all else in the history of our times. The picturesque guests from all parts of the world-embracing realm of Britain are arriving day by day, and the representatives of the puis- sant princes of foreign lands flock up to the metropolis in quick succession. There will, in- deed, be a gorgeous sequence of Coronation cere- monial, if all be well in the way of health and weather, as each of us devoutly hopes may be the case. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the eminent Free Church evangelist, sleeps the sleep of the just in the hillside cemetery at Norwood, and many who laboured lovingly and long with the famous Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle have followed him to "that bourne from whence no traveller returns." Now his aged father has been called home also, in the fulness of the years. John Spurgeon, the veteran, may not have been quite so illustrious as his famous son, but he was a strong and sturdy servant of the Almighty, and a signally worthy upholder of the faith once delivered to the saints." After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." Some indication of the advantage which tho Queen Victoria Clergy Fund has been since its foundation was given at the annual meeting held at the Church House the other day. In five years it has raised £300,000, chiefly, of course, by means of the affiliated diocesan or- ganisations. All the thirty-five dioceses are as- sociated with it, with the exception of Liver- pool and Durham, in each of which there is a separate fund. It is pleasing to see the vitality of this religious effort at a moment of extrane- ous excitement as regards statemanly and com- mercial contention. That nation does well which does not allow itself to be diverted from the deep things of life. Let it be noted that Sir Albert William Woods, the Garter King-of-Arms, is the sole survivor so far as is known of the officials con- nected with the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838. He was born in 1816, but bears his eighty-six years so well that it is hoped he will be able to be present in the Abbey on the 26th to take part officially for the second time in the crowning of a British Sovereign. His father, the late Sir William Woods, was also Garter King-of-Arms, and Sir Albert entered the College of Arms as Pursuivant as far back as 1838. His grandson, Mr. G. Woods Wollaston, has just been appointed Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms for the Coronation. Though of no more than three years' standing at the Bar, he has had considerable experience, it is stated, of cases involving heraldic research, and was engaged in more than one important ease before the recent Court of Claims.

I SOME COROStATIuiN COPES. The Archbishop of York has at last put hia cope in hand, and it is now being made. It will be of pale primrose yellow and white damask embroidered with gold, and will have an orphrey or fringed scarf of woven red and gold, with his arms and the arms of the diocese embroidered thereon. The attire of the Canons of West- minster will be truly gorgeous. Their copes are of a beautiful wallflower red, closely embroidered with the crown and Tudor rose. So far, how- ever, the "Sun God" suggesting copes of the Bishops of Durham and of Bath and Wells are the most lovely. They are of creamy damask, embroidered with large rayed suns in raised gold thread.

A neavy and delicate piece of underpinning under rather unusual conditions has been suc- cessfully accomplished on Lower Broadway, New York, where one end of a tall office building ad- jacent to a taller new office building has been raised nearly 2in. and underpinned without per- ceptibly impairing the integrity of the brickwork or stone masonry, plaster, or even disturbing the alignment of the lifts and other machinery in use. The Pope possesses a great number of pet canaries, and derives a considerable amount of pleasure from their singing. There are at least twelve birds kept in cages in the library at the Vatican, and each little songster is given its liberty for half an hour daily. They alight on His Holiness's shoulder, and are wonderfully tame. Their singing never seems to distrub Leo XIII., although it is in this apartment that many of his receptions take place and some of his dis' courses are given.

LIVED ON THREE-HALFPENCE A I DAY. Can a man live on three-halfpence a day? An Aberdeen man did this for eight weeks, but he got near the danger line of abstinence. On how little a man may sustain life is a problem that has at- tracted many daring individuals with more desire for notoriety than regard for health. Not so this man, says the "Aberdeen Journal," whose reporter made a searching investigation of the facts. His name is George Gowans, tinplate worker at a large provision factory, living at 9, Spa-street, Aberdeen. For two years," he said, I endured constant misery from the severest form of indigestion and gastric poisoning; if I hadn't fortunately hit upon Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people I would not likely be here to tell the tale." Between the beginning of the trouble and his final cure there was a period of extreme suffering, which one could scarcely credit were there not officIal corroboration in the infirmary records. 11 My work," he said, "is not healthy. Toiling over ill-smelling gas stoves, with strong odours from acids used in soldering, tells even on the most robust constitution. In September, 1899, I began to suffer acutely from indigestion. I could not eat without pain. I denied myself every dish likely to cause trouble, but still got no relief. De- prived of proper nourishment, I quickly wasted away, and went down from over ten stone to seven stones four pounds. For eight weeks I lived on what cost I LESS THAN THREB HALFPENCE A DAY, so determined was I to dispense with whatever might injure me. For two years I had milk diet, for I could not take solid food. My case puzzled doctors, and I went into the Infirmary. There it was feared that I had cancer of the stomach, but I was pronounced to be suffering from gastric poisoning, and my stomach was so inflamed that food simply would no stay. My friends gave me up as one who had only a short time to live." So you tried Dr. Williams' pink pills ?" Yes. I had read in the newspapers about them, and my wife and daughter urged me to try them. I said to my wife to be sure that we got the genuine, and I would give them a trial. Now I will swear by them as long as I live. I felt a change on the fourth day after commencing. My appetite began to return, aud I felt that the pills were doing me good, as my stomach seemed stronger. Gradually I was able to increase the quantity of food, until I reached my former standard. The inflammation in my stomach subsided under the influence of the pills, and the ulcers gave way to healthy coating. I took the pills for fully a year altogether, but I would gladly have given all I possess for the relief afforded me." It is not surprising that in an illness of such severity a long course of the pills was necessary to a complete cure the wonder is that any medicine could have saved the case. In less serious attacks of indigestion, bile, kidney disease, and other de- rangements of the digestive system, and in rheu- matism, gout, headaches, consumption, wasting and other secondary ailments due to impurity of the blood caused by imperfect action of the stomach, Dr. Williams' pink pills have more per- manent strengthening effect than any ordinary medicine. To obtain the genuine pills (as Mr. Gowan took care to do) is easy by insisting on seeing the full name on the package, Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people in case of any difficulty they can always be obtained direct from the manu- facturers (46, Holborn-viaduct, London) by post, price two shillings and ninepence a box, or for six boxes thirteen and nine, so as to avoid substitutes and purgatives. The pills are the best possible summer tonic, and a remedy for the fatigue of hot weather.

I RHODESIAN NOMENCLATURE. The spot Malindidzimo, or Lindin-dizimo, as it is severally termed, the "Home of the Pro- tecting Spirit," where Mr. Rhodes was buried, was quite unknown by that name to the departed statesman. It appears, says "Rhodesia," that the name is one originally given by the Banyabi, one of the original tribes inhabiting the Matoppos and a branch of the Makalangi. In this connection our Buluwayo correspondent writes this week questioning the authenticity of the native names applied to dis- tinguishing locality in Rhodesia. Though cor- rectness in nomenclature is desirable, in the case of Rhodesia, whese previous history and philological derivation in terminology is obscure even to the natives themselves, a country with no written history, the purist in nomenclature will find research in most cases stop short at corrupted sources, and in but few cases at the original starting point. It appears to us that the greater fault is in the spelling of the oral term. To rectify this a standard is available, namely, the native grammars compiled by the missionaries and other South African philo- logical works. For instance, it is not com- monly known that in native parlance the letter C is a elick, and not the C of European pro- nunciation. Thus we often observe Insiza spelt Inciza, Umchabez should really be spelt Umt- shabez, and numerous other instances may be mentioned. Considered broadly, nomenclature by custom, with the ordinary checks by the expert, appears the most suitable for practical application. .— ——

I FIRE-FIGHTING AT HOME. The well-known expert, Mr. J. L-omptoft Merryweather, advises that in order to maintain the efficiency of a private fire brigade, periodical drills are necessary, and the servants should be exercised at least once a month by the steward, butler, or other important functionary. It is by no means generally known (says a writer in the "Temple Magazine"), that even our great cathedrals have private fire brigades of their own and the priceless fabric of Canterbury has been saved from destruction several times during the past twenty years by the powerful Merry- weather steam engine and private fire brigade maintained by the Dean and Chapter. Buckets of water should be hung conveniently in every house. A fire-bucket, however, only holds two gallons, and this is far more effective when thrown in a powerful jet than when simply cast direct from the bucket, and therefore, a portable hand fire-pump should be provided. The home drill for buckets and hand-pumps is worked something after the following manner: —The alarm being given, the house brigade assemble at an agreed point, each bringing a bucket of water. The position of the fire" being indicated by the head of the household, and the water supply known (it ought to be in the bathroom, where the bath can be kept filled), the order "attention" is given, and all the servants line up and "prove distance," by extend- ing an arm to touch the shoulder of the next person. Then comes the passing of the bucket, and a constant series of these keeps the hand- pumps well supplied.

SCHOOLGIRL AND THE QUEEN. A little Leigh schoolgirl, aged twelve, whose birthday is the 26th, wrote to the Queen recently in the following terms: "My dear Gracious Queen,—Perhaps you will never see this letter, for my mother says she does not think you will be able to read all the letters that are sent to you. "I have got a brooch with you and our King on it. You do look so good and sweet. I am glad you are our Queen, but what I want to tell you most is how glad I am that you are to be crowned on June 26. I think it is the luckiest day in all the year. "I am sure you will be happy that day, when you think how many millions of people are re- joicing and having a holiday.—I send you my very best love, and I remain, your loving little subject, "ALICE MAUD THOMABSON. The following reply has been received from Buckingham Palace:—"Miss Knollys is com- manded by the Queen to thank Miss Alice Thomasson very much for her nice little letter, which her Majesty read with great pleasure."

So wonderful is the mixture that we cannot easily understand the state of mind of a little girl who asked her ^father "Pa, where were you born ?" "In Boston, my dear." And where was mamma born?" "In San Francisco, my dear." "And where was I born ?" In Phila- delphia, my dear." Well," said the little dear, "isn'tit funny how we three pe oplegottoeether,"

I BOGSLIDE IN IRELAND. Great excitement was caused in the neighbour- hood of Carrick-on-Shannon, co. Leitrim, on Monday evening, when the news spread that a vast area of bog, comprising several hundred acres, split in two portions and moved a consider- able distance, occasioning much destruction to property in the vicinity. A house has been swallowed up, but happily no lives were lost. The place originally occupied by the bog is now j covered by an immense sheet of water.

THE EDUCATION BILL. A deputation from the Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture has waited on Mr. Bal- four to urge that the charge under the Education Bill should be borne by the Imperial Exchequer and not by the local rates. The case of the deputation having been stated by Sir E. Strachey, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, M.P., Major Rasch, M.P., the Duke of North- umberland, Mr. J. L. Wharton, M.P., and Lord Willoughby de Eresby. Mr. Balfour, in reply, said he was not at present in a position to make any declaration of a definite and specific policy on the part of the Government. He did not dissent from the view of the Local Taxation Com- mission that education should be a national charge; with this qualification, that so long as they left the administration to local bodies so long must those bodies hive financial responsi- bility for that which they were called upon to administer. But the present was not a moment at which to attempt any reform of local taxation. Discussing views put forward by members of the deputation, he expressed the opinion that one of the great results of the bill would be to make education less centralised and more local than it was at present, and to reduce the Education Department from the position of universal manager of all schools to that of a great advisory body. He held that the opinion, widely enter- tained, that the bill was injurious to the rate- payers had no foundation in fact, and contended that the only alternative to the proposal of the Government would bo the conversion of the present voluntary schools into undenominational schools, which would involve a much heavier charge on the ratepayers. After referring to various measures passed by the Unionist Govern- ments of the last 16 years as evidence of their sympathy with the position of rural ratepayers, Mr. Balfour said that, in view of Imperial necessi- ties. there was, he feared, little prospect that Ministers could do what the deputation would like to see done in reference to the bill; but he would represent their views to the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, and hoped it would not be impossible to do something in the direction they desired.

The Jacobean Cloth Hall at Newbury has passed from the Charity Commissioners into the hands of the Mayor and an influential com- mittee, who intend restoring the building and converting it into a museum and art gallery as a memorial of the late Queen. A marriage has been arranged between Captain A. H. Leith, of Glenkindie, Aberdeen- shire, son of the late General Disney Leith, C.B., of Glenkindie and Westhall, Aberdeenshire, and of Mrs. Disney Leith, of North Court, Isle of Wight, and Phyllis, youngest daughter of Colonel Mark Goldie, Royal Engineers, South-Western District. It is a somewhat curious fact that the Duke of Devonshire owns no land in the county from which he takes his title; 80,000 acres in Derby- shire, however, acknowledge him as owner. In like manner Lord Derby owns no land in Derby- shire, the 50,000 acres which he possesses being in Lancashire. Lord Leicester has 40,000 acres in Norfolk, but none in Leicestershire. One third of the rural estates belonging to the Duke of Bedford are in tue county whose name he bears-

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[ KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. The annual dinner of this institution took place on Monday evening. The Bishop of London presided, and, in proposing "The College," read a resolution adopted last Friday by the council to the effect that, while deter- mined to maintain the connection of the college with the Church of England, the council will, as soon as possible, abolish every religious test as a qualification for office, position, or membership in the college otherwise than for professorships or lectureships in the faculty of divinity. Lr. Robertson, principal of the college, responded to the toast, and among other speakers were Sir A. Rollit, Sir W. Preece, and Principal Rucker, of London University.

The engagement of Prince Nicholas of Greece to the Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia is announced. Mme. Rejane's salary for her approaching six week's tour in South America is stated to be 15,200. A fresh outbreak of cattle disease in Rhodesia is reported. The native stock is no longer immune. The War Office has abandoned its intention of issuing a standard pattern cycle to Volunteer cyclist companies. A men's club and coffee tavern was opened on Saturday afternoon at Walworth in connection with the Browning Settlement. A resolution has been moved in the United States Senate for the annexation of Cuba and its admission into the Union as a State. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against Frederick Corbett, the Worcester solicitor who is charged with misappropriating trust funds. The trial of Lieut.-Colonel Grimm on a charge of having sold Russian military secrets to a foreign Power has concluded, the colonel being sentenced to deprivation of all his rights, and imprisonment with hard labour for twelve years. Four thousand pounds was the gross amount taken at the two days' bazaar held at the French Embassy for the benefit of the French benevolent institutions in London and the sufferers by the recent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies. Lord Gwydyr, of Stoke Park, Ipswich, is the record peer of England in point of age, being at present in his ninety-third year. His lordship can boast of having already seen three Corona- tion ceremonies, i.e., those of George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria, and now looks forward to witnessing the crowning of King Edward VII. An amusing anecdote is told of Maubant, the eminent French tragedian, whose death is just announced. He was a man so sombre of aspect albeit of sterling good nature, that even on his wedding day he was not once seen to smile. Thiron, a brother actor, said of him that he always "laughed internally." On hearing the jest Maubant said, "I'll show Thiron that I can also laugh externally." Not long after Thiron was acting in a piece in which he had to say, "My father's sword shall teach you a lesson," and, suiting the action to the word, he drew forth-a blade of wood, while the audience shrieked with laughter. There was no doubt about Mauban's smiletthis time. He fairly shook as he owned to being the culprit. I just wanted to show you, my dear fellow, that I can smile outside," he said to Thiron in explanation. The Duke of Montrose was once a younger son, but the untimely death of his elder brother, Lord Graham, made him Lord Buchanan, and, subsequently, Duke of Montrose. He did not take the beautiful old title of Marquis of jj-aham, from an idea, on the part of his parents, u.at it was unlucky. He is one of the King's A.D.C.'s (says the "Candid Friend"), and, amongst other distinctions, possesses that of being Hereditary Sheriff of Dumbartonshire. The duke, who is in the 3rd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is at the present moment in South Africa with his regi- ment. He is a fine shot and a good sportsman. The Duchess of Montrose is to be one of the four duchesses who uphold the canopy over the Queen at the Coronation. 1L__IoI_i:C.

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Teacher: What is a score T" Pupil: "The number of runs made at a cricket-match." Teacher No, no; what I mean is, how much does a score signify numerically? What idea does it give you? That is to say, if I were to tell vou that I have a score of horses, what would you think?" Pupil: "Please, sir, I should think vou was stuffin' me." 1 ue Imperial Coronation Bazaar, to beheld at the Royal Botanical Gardens on July 10th, 11th, and 12th, in aid of the Hospital for S Chil- dren, Great Ormond-street, will have some other remarkable features besides a Royal opening. There is, for instance, to be a stall representing the London Stock Exchange, to be called the "Stock Exchange Stall," and presided over by the Lady Lilian Grenfell and a number of other titled ladies, with Mr. Stuart C. Grant and the Hon. F. C. Brownlow as honorary secretaries. A fund has been started on the Stock Exchange to present to the Queen a cheque for al,ooo to endow in perpetuity the Alexandra Cot," in commemoration of her Majesty's Coronation, and to hand all surplus moneys to the Hooitnl, together with the proceeds of the sales at the stall, where silver articles only are to be sold. The last stall to be arranged is "Canada," to be presided over by the Lady Strathcona, the Lady Macdonald of Earnscliffe, and the Hon. Mra. R. B. J. Howard. At a time when polo is so much the topic of conversation an exceptionally melancholy interest attaches to the recent death at Newport, Rhode Island, after an illness of nearly fifteen years, of Harry Oelrichs, who was associated with James Gordon Bennett in introducing the game to America, and who took part in the first match ever played in that country. Mr. Oelrichs was born in New York forty-six years ago, a brother of Mr. Hermann Oelrichs, who is American agent for the North German Lloyd. Graduating with honour from Columbia College, he was admitted to the New York Bar, but hia interest was more in athletics than in the law, and he went to Wyoming as superintendent of the Anglo-American Cattle Company.

AFTER THE WAR, SURRENDERS STILL PROCEEDING. Lord Kitchener, in a telegram dated Thursday of last week, reported the further surrender ol 854 burghers in the Transvaal. The surrender- ing Boers are showing readiness to acquiesce loyally in the new conditions, and express grati- tude for the generous terms accorded them, and for the assistance given for their repatriation. The intercourse between Boers and Britons at the surrenders is invariably friendly. Lord Kitchener, in telegrams of Friday and Saturday, reported 4,411 more surrenders of burghers since his preceding message. A despatch of Sunday said the total numbgr of surrenders up to that morning was 16,500. General Delarey has sur- rendered at Lichtenburg with 800 men. DE WET ON THE WILL OF GOD. About 850 Boers, under Generals Prinsloo and Froneman, Commandants Cronje, Koen, Veimaas, Rautenbach, and Van Mikery, being the Winburg, Senekal, Ladybrand, and Ficks- burg commandoes, and a portion of the Bethle- hem and Bloemfontein commandoes, surrendered at Winburg on Thursday of last week. The majority of the men had rifles, but they had j very few cartridges among them, having, they explained, expended most of their ammunition in buck-shooting since peace was proclaimed. The surrender took place at Wilgeboom, nine miles east of Winburg. General Elliot, pre- ceded by General de Wet, went out there early in the morning, and the surrender was carried out with the same formalities as were observed in the case of the other commandoes, whose submis- sion has already been reported. In the local concentration camp many remark- able scenes were witnessed. The inmates had erected a fine arch, bearing the inscription, "Welcome to our Braves," and in a large marquee the burghers were served with tea and cakes of all sorts, the women waiting upon them and offering them the most liberal hospitality. When the burghers first arrived in the camp, the women and children rushed frantically about looking for their relatives among the new comers, and pitiable scenes occurred when in many cases they received the news that husbands or sons, fathers or brothers whom they expected to meet had fallen in the war. Presently General De Wet arrived in camp, and addressed the people. He was immediately surrounded by several thousands of men, women, and children struggling and clamouring in their intense anxiety to see and shake hands with the distinguished Boer leader. General De Wet mounted a table and addressed the eager multitude. Speaking first to the women, he heartily thanked them for the staunch support they had given to the Boer cause throughout the war, both on the veld and in camp. Had the women, he said, not been so staunch, the burghers, he said, would have been obliged to give in long ago. He did not wish to belong to a nation whose women were not staunch, but while on the veld he had heard from all the camps of their determined solidarity, and that had encouraged the burghers immensely. Even if all the burghers in the field had been killed in the course of the war, it would have been the duty of the women to bring up their children to be as hardy as the burghers he had brought in that day. They were now under the new Government-only now, and never before- and that was the British Government, and he had to explain to them that it was the thoroughly lawful Government to-day. "I say," he continued, "that our Government is the British Government, and I am now under that Government, as I fought till there was no more hope. However bitter it was, it was time to lay down our arms, and I advise you to be faithful to our new Government. Perhaps it is hard for you to hear from my mouth the announcement that we have a new Government, but God has decided thus, and we were obliged to part with our cause, which we had upheld for two years and eight months. As a Christian people, God now demands us to be faithful to our new Government. I heartily thank my sisters for their allegiance and faith in our cause. Let us submit to God's decision over myself and my people, and I beg you to serve our new Government faithfully, with myself and burghers." FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BOERS AND BRITONS. At a dinner given in Pretoria to the principal officers of the National Scouts to celebrate their services in helping to bring the war to a close, speeches were made by General Sir Ian Hamilton, Colonel Girouard, Andries Cronje, Piet De Wet, Vilonel, Celliers, and others. An intimate friendship nas sprung up between our officers are these Boer leaders. The National Scouts are being disbanded. ALL BOERS IN. I 17,740 SURRENDER; 16,123 RIFLES HANDED OVER. I LORD KITCHENER'S TASK ENDS. I The surrenders in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are new complete, and there are only 150 more men yet to lay down their arms in the Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener sends the following figures for the two late Republics: Men. Rifles. Transvaal 11,225 10,813 Orange Colony 5,395 5,280 16,620 16,123 To which must be added 1120 men who, accord.. ing to a message from Vryheid, have surrendered in the Cape Colony up to date, making a grand total of 17,740. It will be noted that 497 fewer rifles have been handed over than the total of men surrendered in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. We are now able to get the approximate strength of the Boor army when hostilities began. Surrenders 17,740 Captures accounted for 9,000 Prisoners and in^refuge camps 42,000 Casualties 11,000 79,740 79,740 The following despatches from Lord Kitchener were issued from the War Office on Tuesday: PRETORIA, June 16, six p.m. Surrenders since my last amount to 915. This completes all surrenders in Transvaal. Those in Orange River Colony will be completed to-morrow. General French reports from Cape Colony that there are only 150 more to come in. I have handed over South African Constabulary to civil authorities as necessity for any further military operations has now ceased." PRETORIA, June 17, 8 a.m. c; There were 700 mere surrenders at Bloemfon- tein yesterday. All surrenders in Transvaal and Orange River Colony now complete. In the former 11,225 men with 10,843 rifles have surrendered, while in the latter 5395 men with 5280 rifles have surrendered. Numbers from Cape Colony not yet received in full." I WORK WELL DONE. I Lord Kitchener took supreme command of the troops in South Africa on November 29, 1900—a time when the war was officially said to be over. The struggle lasted two years seven months and twenty days, so that, instead of being finished, it was in reality not half over when Lord Kitchener relieved Lord Roberts, who left South Africa on December 11, 1900. In many respects Kitchener's task was more arduous than that of his predecessor. Certainly it was less satisfactory-let him scheme and labour as he might. A few days after Lord Roberts left guerilla warfare was in full swing. De Wet captured the garrison at Dewetsdorp; Delarey cut up the Fighting Fifth in the Maga- liosberg and things became desperate in the Cape Colony. This new method of warfare made progress very slow for the British. Lord Kitchener, how- ever, was equal to the task, and his system of drives and blockhouses broke down the Boer re- sistance and ended the war. SCARVES OF HONOUR. QUEEN VICTORIA'S RECOGNITION OF COLONIALS. I The Gazette" on Tuesday night contained a j despatch by Lord Roberts, in which he gave a concluding list of officers, non-commissioned officers and men, nurses, and civilians who rendered meritorious service during the period of his command in South Africa. The Commander-in-Chief explains that delay in completing the list has been due to pressure of work at the War Office and the necessity for re- peated references to South Africa. The list embraces the names of a number of Imperial Yeomanry officers, including Colonel the Earl of Dunraven. Lady Henry Bentinck, Port- land Hospital; Lady Furley, Red Cross Dep6t, Cape Town; and Mrs. George Cornwallis West are among others mentioned. Lord Roberts desires to place on record that in April 1900 her late Majesty Queen Victoria was graciously pleased to send him woollen scarves, worked by herself, for distribution to the four most distinguished private soldiers in the Colonial Forces of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, then serving under him. The names of those selected, to whom the scarves have already been presented, are as follows Private Dufrayer, New South Wales Mounted Rifles. Private Henry Donald Coutts, New Zealand Mounted Rifles. 7552 Private (since promoted to Lieutenant) Richard Rowland Thompson, Royal Canadian Regiment. 2479 Trooper Leonard Chadwick, Roberts' Horse.

I PRINCE AND INDIA. I H.R.H. TO VISIT OUR EASTERN EMPIRE. I OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The Duke of Connaught, at the banquet given by the Asiatic Society to the Indian Princes now in London, made the important announcement that it would not be very long before the Prince and Princess of Wales visited India. The banquet was given under the presidency of Lord Reay, a distinguished gathering, including many repre- sentatives of the Indian Empire, being present. On the toast of The King being proposed it was decided to send a telegram to the King ex- pressing the loyalty of those present, and the satis- faction they felt at his Majesty's recovery from his indisposition. Lord Reay then gave 11 The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family." "The Prince and Princess of Wales," he said, have visited every part of the King's dominions except India. I am sure I speak in the name of his Majesty's Indian subjects when I say I hope that some time or other their Royal Highnesses will pay India a visit." Loud and prolonged cheers followed this re- mark, in which the many Indians present were particularly enthusiastic. The Duke of Connaught at once rose to reply. He first eloquently referred to the deep interest with which the Queen regarded the Indian Empire. Then he continued t You are also aware of the great interest which the Prince and Princess of Wales take in India, and I am sure I am not divulging a secret when I say that I do not think it will be very long before they will pay a visit to our Indian Empire." Personally he had lived for nearly seven years in India, and had traversed the greater part of the country. He was personally known to most of the Indian Princes, and he hoped they would allow him to say in their presence that we heartily wel- comed them to this country. Several of them had done good service to the Empire, and had proved their fidelity and loyalty to their King-Emperor. Replying to the toast of "The Indian Princes," the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior said they had been deeply impressed by the generous hospitality accorded to them as guests of the King.

THE MURDERED YEOMAN. The three men, Henry Beels, George Darley and Thomas Sullivan, who were arrested on charges arising out of the murder of Mr. Spicer, late of the Imperial Yeomanry, in Upper Woburn- place, St. Pancras, on the 3rd inst., were again brought before the magistrate at the ClerkenweU Police-court on Tuesday. As Darley and Sullivan had not been identified, the Treasury did not pro- ceed against them, and they were discharged. After further evidence Beels was remanded untij Monday next.