London, May 29.
Baron Choylesmore, presiding at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, announced that a islay competition, The Over-sens," open to British subjects resident overseas, had been intro-dueed in view of the large number of visitors from the Dominions. The prize-list would amount to #100 not be charged.
The Baron went on to-say that there would be a record number of competitors at Bisley this year, including representative teams. fro Canada, Australia, South Afric India, Rhodesia, Natal, the Gold Coast and Malay Ho said that the Australians, the holders of the Empire trophy, had again waived their right to Have the match competed for in Australia and were sportingly bringing. trophy to be contested for at Bisley. Ho also announced that the Prince of Wales had consented to present the prizes at Bisley this year.—Reutor, Macisteates and police officials in Chekiang have been instructed by the Hangchow Commissioner of Foreign Affairs to afford visitors to Mokanshan necessary protection and to see that no untoward cidents happen so far as they are concerned, AN American visitor to Colombo from the President Garfield recently made a strange bequest to a police constable, The constable was duty on the vessel referred to when, the American approached him and handed him a small black bear in 4,, bom- subsequently writing" slip of paper, "I, rive and bequeath my honey bear to Police Constable, The centtable was' somewhat embarrassed by the unusual gift, but the American insisted upon his retaining it, and the result is that the police mess has acquired a queer pet. The Customs duty on the animal, which came from Singapore, was, incidentally, 20 cents, 17 ix recorded that Nestorian mi sionaries from Persia entered China in the seventh century and translate ed some part of the Scriptures. But not a fragment of this ancient ver= sion has come down to the present day, states the "Bible in the World." 'A Mongolian version of the New Testament and Psalms was made some seven centuries later by a Franciscan monk, but this version has also disappeared. Jesuit missionaries, - in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, made a partial translation of the Scriptures into Chinese, Morrison copied a manuscript of this in the British Museum before leaving England and used it as the basis of his translation. There is no evidence that the. Roman Catholic missionaries ever pul their version into eireulation among the people.
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