The Archive · 1901

THB NEWS OF THE Week

quite the sensational kind common to the circumstances—fires, murders, feasts, and fates. The lnryest fire burned the mess of the 7th Rajputs. Stationed in the Temple of Heaven, the officers had one of the best appointed rooms in the capital, but the fire was no respecter of their place, art, or articles, and so they have been burned out and had a rather hot time of it, even in this cold weather. Apart from the butcheries of burglars there was a fatal affray wherein Mr, Cairney

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