Lord Kitchener has started on his return tothe Soudan with the comforting knowledge that his fund for the erection of n Gordon Memorial College; at Khartoum, was assured fof success far beyond his expectations. He asked for a hundred thousand pounds, and already the subscriptions received directly atthe offices of the fund and at the Mansion House amount to well over ninety. thousand, and as the Lord Mayors and Lord Provosts and Mayors and Provosts of the eat cities and towns in England and Scot-jand are also engaged in collecting subscriptions, the total fund will certainly exceed largely the sum for which the Sirdar asked.
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