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24 THE COLONIES AND INDIA DEC. 24,1892 Judicial Member of Council. It is not often, even in India, that schoolboys enjoy, the sight a "mill" in school between their masters. The statue in bronze of the late Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada, which is to be erected at Hamilton, Ontario, is now at Mr.

Wade's studio, The Avenue, 70 Fulham Road. It will be on view until the middle of January, when it will be forwarded to its destination. The next of kin of Sir J. Jeremie, Governor of Sierra Leone in 1840, are requested to communicate with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, London, S.W. An influential meeting of London journalists was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, London, on December 21, at which an address was presented to Frofessor Harrison Moore, of King's Cambridge, and the Middle Temple, on his retirement from journalism to take up the Professorship of Law at Melbourne University.

The presentation was made by Mr. E. E. Peacock, and Mr. J.

S. Jeans occupied the chair on the occasion. A letter has been received from Professor Garner, dated Libreville, Congo, November 25, stating that he has already gathered much valuable data on various subjects, and is making a beginning of his work. He has seen only two gorillas as yet, one at Kamerun and the other at Libreville. The belief that they talk is very general among the natives and residents in the interior.

He is also gathering some quaint folk-lore concerning the apes. lie is going in a short time on a trip up the Gaboon river, and then to Chanon, a town in the bush about three hours' journey from Libreville, on the south side otthe river. His contemplated route thence is overland via Cape Lopez to Sette Come and Angovie, returning to Angovie River and up that valley overland to the Middle Congo basin, down the north side of that river to the coast. He hopes to leave in January and complete his journey by August or September, 1893, and then return homeward, The third-class cruiser Canada, Captain H. W.

Dowding, arrived at Spithead on December 18, from the North American and West Indies station, where she had served for some years. All was well aboard. The Admiralty reports that Bermuda on December 16. the troopship Tyne arrived at Mr. Charles Hogg, second son of Sir Frederick Hogg, and nephew of Mr.

Quintin Hogg (Hogg, Curtis, Campbell Sc Co.) and cousin of the present Lord by the way, has now quite recovered from bis recent, severe hunting married at Rangoon, Burma, on December 16, to Miss Annie Evelyn Haldane, the youngest daughter of the late Dr. Rutherford Haldane, LL.D. of Edinburgh. The appointment of Mr. James George Coull as an Unofficial Ilember of the Legislative Council of the Island of St.

Vincent has just been formally approved by the Queen. Lieutenant T. P. C. Cumming, of the Milford Haven Division Submarine Miners, R.E.M., having been seconded for service with the British Honduras Constabulary, left Liverpool on December 16 for Belize to take up his appointment.

Letters reached the Admiralty on December 21 from the Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies station, dated up to December 2. A series of interesting letters from Madrid, by A Caribbean among the Americanists," have lately been appearing in the New York Nation. It is said that they are from the pen of that well- known and clever writer Mr. N. Darnell Davis, of British Guiana.

It is reported that M. de Brazza, the Governor-General of the French Congo, has been recalled by his Government in consequence of the deplorable condition of the French Congo Colony. M. de Braeza has applied for the post of Governor of the French possessions in Indo-China in the event of M. de Lanessan retiring, but he bas as yet received no reply from the Government.

Major Sir Claude M. MacDonald, K.C.M.G., of the Highland Light Infantry, was on December 16, at St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Eoad, Kensington, married to Ethel, widow of the late Mr. P. Craigie Robertson, of the Indian Political Service, and daughter of late Major W.

Cairns Armstrong, of the 15th Regiment. Mr. Stephen Leech, of the British Legation, Brussels, attended Sir Claude as best man. Surgeon-General MaoleaD, O.B., great uncle of the bride, gave her away. The Rev.

J. P. Waldo, vicar of St. Stephen's, officiated, assisted by the Rev. G.

Beresford. The authorities of the Church Army have just dispatched a clergyman of experience to their new Labour Colony in South Africa. Should ho be finally appointed to this settlement, he will not only act as chaplain, but be responsible for the educational depaitment. I am told that the complaints of the French press about Captain Lugard's defence of his conduct towards the French missionaries in Uganda being published in the English newspapers at the same time that it was communicated to the French Government are without foundation. The dosument had been about a week in the hands of the French Government before it was published in London.

Major Monteil, the French explorer, landed at Marseilles on December 17, on his return from a two years' tour of exploration in the Niger Country and LakB Tchad. The son of the late Kin? Theodore of Abyssinia has again been in trouble, this time at Brighton. When the Mauritius was ceded to Great Britairi, in 1810, there was a gigantic turtle in a court of the Artillery Barracks at Port Louis, which is there still, although almost blind. It weighs 150 kilogrammes, and measures 2 metres feet) across the carapace. Its height from the ground to the top of the carapace, when it walks, is about 0 63 metres (about 2 feet).

It is believed to be 200 years old at least; nevertheless it carries two men on its back with ease. It is evidently a survival of the largo turtles which formerly existed in a wild state in the Seychelles and other islands of the Indian Ocean, but are now only found wild in the Aldabra Islands, north-west of Madagascar, where they are rapidly disappearing. It will be remembered that the Hon. Risely Griffith, the indefatigable Administrator of the Seychelles, paid a visit to the Aldabras not long ago, to have a look at the turtle fields." A marriage will shortly take place between Mr. Harold Littledale, of Baroda College, India, eldest son of the late Mr.

William F. Littledale, of Whaley Abbey, Rathdrum, County Wicklow, and Sybil Frances Hanbury, fourth daughter of Mr. Edgar llanbury, of Eastrop Grange, Highworth, Wilts. The marriage arranged between Mr. Clement Kinloch Cooke and Florence, daughter of the Rev.

J. L. Errington, will take place quite quietly at the end of January. Mr. Kinloch Cooke, it will be remembered, was offered the Chief Justiceship of Samoa.

He is at present acting as editor of the I'all Mall Gazette. Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, has, in consequence of failing health, resigned the Chairmanship of the Bombay Millowners' Association. There has lately been a find of Roman silver coins in the Hazara district, India. As they came to light at Pakli, a few miles beyond Mansehra, it is presumed they were found somewhere in the bourhood of that place. They are mostly of Tiberius and Augustus, and are all in remarkably fine condition.

It is not often that Roman coins are found in abundance in the Punjab, although finds of such coins are not unknown in Madras and Mysore. It is hoped that one specimen, at least, of each type will be secured for the Lahore Museum, and, if possible, one of each also for the Imperial Museum in Calcutta. Ceylon is sending to the Chicago Exhibition a complete reproduction of a Buddhist temple and many interesting specimens of ancient Sinhalese art, including, according to the Ceylon Observer, exquisitely carved pillars, massive doorways and dados, beautiful windows and frescoed panellings of courts." There will also be, among other things, a display of jewellery, lace, and pottery. It is hoped that these treasures will do something to further in America the interests of the most modern product of Ceylon- tea." Manipur is making rapid strides in the path of civilisation. A billiard table has been imported from Calcutta, and the click of the balls is now heard in the sequestered spot not long ago there was naught but battle and murder and sudden death..