While in India, the General, an excellent horseman and polo player, was able to indulge freely in hia favourite sport of big game hunting, and pig-sticking in particular, His book, "Modern Pi regarded as the classic in connection with the chase of the boar, for itis, well said that General Watdrop forgotten more about pig-sticking than the average competitor for the Kadir Cup, the most. important trophy for' this sport fu India, has ever known. The General is among the very limited number of sports men who have followed boar after): it has taken to water and stuck it in midstream, He will be well remembered, too, by the officers who served under him in Lahore—and there are a fow in Shanghai—as having drawn a very strong line between those who asked for leave for wholehearted explore tion and those who only wanted {t for "poodle-faking" in one or other of the various Himalayan Hill Stations; for, while the former sometimes could get as much as three months leave, the latter rarely could get more than ten days.
To sum up, General Wardrop is one of the keenest and ablest of soldiers, a first-class sportsman, and 8 most charming personality.
Delightful Rendering of Old and New Numbers The Cathedral Choir gave a delightful musical service on Wednesday afternoon, consisting of carols fold and new, interspersed with vocal and organ soles.
The organist, Mr. R. C. Young, played two appropriate and very enjoyable solos, a choral on "Sleep-Wake" by Karg-Elert and a stras Pastoral" by Loardin masterly fashion. The old favourites, "Good King Wenceslas" Jand "The First Nowell" were sung with gusto by choir and congregaton.
We have no space for a list of the newer carols, which were all well done, but "Lullay My Liking" by Gustav Hoist is worthy of special mention; the unaccompanied singing lof certain of the verses by Mrs. G. E Marden was a joy to hear. Another carol in modern style, "A Spotless Rose" "by Herbert Howells, was beautifully, sung by the choir.
The solos from "The Messiah" and other sources were well rendered and we trust the size of the collection Which was taken for the entertainment of H. M, Defence Forces was in keeping with the excellence of the music and the hard work that must have been expended upon rehearsing it, The Cathedral was fall, Amon former Sh and Peking residents to leave for America over the week-end, thole destination being McNeil's Island Penitentiary, were Henry F. Krenz (for five years) and G. S. Gawne (for 366 days). They were placed in custody of the ship's captain, who will hand them over to Federal authorities.
Da. J. Darroch, in an addrocs at the Royal Asiatic Society's Hall on Tuesday afternoon, explained the origin and development of the characters which form the Chinese language. The earliest were simple in form, gradually growing more complex. The beginnings of 2 phonetic script were to be found in Chinese, but this yielded, as in the ease of Egyptian, to an alphabet fe language. The characters them-ves comprised ideas that lay bo-hind the minds of ancient penman who invented them. In this way, impses of the earliest Chinese ization were to be had as far back as the characters carry us, probably 2,000 or 3,000 B. C. China was even then a civilized nation, and agriculture well developed. The lecture interested greatly from both the philological and the historiodt aspects. The Rev. J. principal of the Emergency. Schook of Chinese Studies, presided.
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