The Sicawei Observatory has issued a pamphlet entitled "The Storms of August 1910." This pamphlet, it is explained, is not " complete account of every depression or typhoon or of all the atmospheric perturbations daring the month. The design was to review the most important and trace their broad lines as sovn as possible" in order to allow seamen to make their own deductions. Also the pamphlet is intended as a token of the gratitude of the Observatory authorities to those who supply them with the material to make their reports. Six storms are described and, notwithstanding the very modest claim made by the Observatory, all the essential data seem to hav been collected, and the pamphlet should he of great service to those for whom it has been prepared.
A MILITARY WEDDING, At St. James-the-Less, Plymoath, on September 14 there was a military wedding. The bridegroom was Lieut. Andrew Veitch, R.G.A., quartered at! Plymouth Citadel, eldest son of the late Mr. Andrew Veitch, of Shanghai and Hongkong, and the bride Mies Volande M. D. Kinloch, eldest daughter of Hamilton Kinloch, Into of Win bourne-Earls, Wilts." The" best man was Captain and Adjatant Araott, Deron R.G.A., and six brother officers were groomsman. Heat. R. J. H. Kinlcch, of the R.G.A., gave away his being the Misses Violet Fortnne, Leslie Veitch, Nadia and Kitty Moberly, 'M, Anderson, and Cicely Ticeburet. The presents numbering over 200, included s silver tea kettle presented to the bridegroom by his brother officers of the mess,
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