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JUNE 12,1897 THE COLONIES AND INDIA 11 INDIAN SERVICE GOSSIP i BY "ANGLO-INDIAN." GOSSIP. Br "IMPERIALIST." Mr. David Hooper, Government Quinologist in Madras Africa has been the grave of a good many reputations, it has been appointed Assistant Curator in the Economic and Art truly been said. It is the bitterest irony that Mr. Labouchore's Museum, vice Mr.

Mukherj The Rev. W. H. Bray, lately Chaplain to St. John's, Cal cutta, retires from the service on the expiration of his leave.

reputation as a shrewd and candid man, and as a man, too, who always has proof on his side to substantiate the grave charges he brings, should have been so injuriously prejudiced by matters South African. Yet such is undoubtedly the case. Our contemporary, the British has taken the trouble to analyse the financial advice which Mr. Labouchere gives the has come home on a visit. Mr.

H. C. Williams, Chairman of the Calcutta Corporation, reader3 of and from iMg w0 find that Ml Labo ucW8 financial editor was steadily South African issues when the slump had set real earnest. It would be Colonel W. S.

S. Bisset, who was lately selected to be difficult for the Member of Northampton to dissociate himself Government Director of Guaranteed Indian Railway Companies from the finatlcial parfc of hig and llovv he can reconcile at the India Office, will vacate his present post of Secretary himself to his dual position as puffer" of South African shares of the Public Works Department in India in October next. and detractor of the financiers to whom we owe those shares, is Mr. J. Gilliland, Professor of Physics at the Calcutta Presidency College, has been appointed Registrar of the difficult indeed to imagine.

University Dr. Leyds is back again in London after his trip to Paris for a brief stay before going to the Hague and Berlin. Whilst in the "gay city" he was received by President Faure, who3e Lieutenant D. J. Meagher, Superintendent of the Allahabad suave and courteous manner will no doubt lead the Transvaal Grass and Dairy Farms, has been sent home, for six months, State Secretary to think that France is only too delighted at to gain a personal knowledge of English methods of agriculture the prospect of becoming an ally of the South African Republic and dairy farming in general.

4 Major W. E. Evans-Gordon, I.S.C., Political Agent, tana, has applied to retire on pension. Brevet-Major R. G.

Egerton, Queen's Own Corps of Guides, has been appointed A.D.C. on the personal staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of thTeTPimjab. Colonel A. Chaplin, of the MadrasJGeneral List of Infantry 1 As French investors are so disastrously involved in Transvaal gold-mining shares, the only possible means of really cementing such an alliance seems to be a series of concessions by the Transvaal to the gold mines. And, if such speedily come to pass, few will be found to grumble at a Franco-Transvaal understanding.

Mr. Sydney Gold ami is expected in London shortly for a holiday. has just retired from General in Madras. the office of Deputy Judge Major Forrester, of Messrs. Houlder Brothers is back in London after his South African trip.

He is in the best of "i health, and appears to have had a very good time. Colonel C. M. Stockley, C.B., in command of a Regimental District in India, and formerly of the Bengal Infantry, has retired on an Indian pension. Colonel J.

H. S. Craigie, half-pay, who has been officiating at Indian Army Headquarters as First A.A.G., is about to take over the duties of A.A.G. Rangoon District, on appointment to the Staff Establishment, Madras Army. Major P.

A. Buckland, I.S.C., Assistant Secretary in the Military Department in India, has been appointed Superintendent of Army Clothing, Bengal. Major F. B. Deane, I.S.C., has been appointed to the command of the 2nd Madras Lancers, vice Lieutenant-Colonel A.

B. Fenton. It is stated on very good authority that Colonel Frank Rhodes has no intention of returning to South Africa just yet. He has taken a house in Stratton Street, lately occupied by Mr. who is now in South Africa.

Colonel nronp.rtv in Lincolnshire, the Manor House. R. A. Ward, Vise contents of the mansion are to be sold. At an ordinary meeting of the Anthropological Institute held at 3 Hanover Square on June 8, Mr.

E. W. Brabrook, the President, in the chair, Mr. H. who has recently returned from Africa, read a paper on "Newly Discovered Stone Implements from Somaliland and from the Lo3t Mines Clements Markham in his native village of Thornhill, the memory Rear-Admiral Edmund C.

Drummond, Commander-in-Chief Jog Thomson? the African explorer. In tho course of in the East Indies, left Colombo on June 11 for the Seychelles. Markham Captain J. R. Matthews, 2nd Madras lias been appointed a D.A.A.G., Madras Army.

On June 6 and 7 Mr. Alfred Moul, on behalf of the directors of the Alhambra, entertained the officers of the Imperial Service Cavalry and the Indian representatives at present over here for the Diamond Jubilee. Among them were Maharajah Sir Pertab Singh, the Rajah of Khetri, the Kunwar Dhokal Singh, the Thakur Rai Bahadur Dip Singh, the -Thakur Dham Singhji, in one party and Captain Mir Hassim Ali Khan, of the 2nd Hyderabad Lancers, Resaldar Major Sttnayat Singh, Kashmir Lancers, and a number of commandants, nearly all members of the great Singh family, forming the other. Looking after the visitors'comforts were Colonel Melliss, Major Turner, Mr. Richmond Ritchie, Major F.

H. R. Drummond, of the 11th P.W.O. Bengal Lancers, and Captain Arigelo, of the 9th Bengal Lancers. give the world any idea of the geological structure of East Africa, and his discoveries and the information he collected amounted to a great public service.

who died at the age of 37, took first place in the front rank of British African explorers, and crowded into the space of 15 years work which might very well have occupied two lifetimes. Mr. B-hodes is going to make a somewhat lengthy 3ojourn in Rhodesia at Bulawayo, after which he is to pay a visit to Major Forbes, who is looking after the African Trans-Continental Telegraph, at Blantyre. His visit to Rhodesia is likely to stimulate things a bit in Cliarterland, and "Chartereds" have appreciably stiffened upon the announcement. There is a character impersonator at the London Pavilion named Ludwig Amann, who is creating II uch enthusiasm by Mr.

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