London welcomed in the year with a dance. This Hogmanay ball is now an important Scots function, just as the gathering in the vicinity of St. Paul's appeals to another section of the Scottish colony in London. The association is one of the most enterprising of its kind, and Sassenachs are proud to be its guests. On this occasion the New Year was rung in by the bell from the late Captain Scott's ship, the Discovery. It is a bell that has rung in the year at a spot nearer the South Pole than any other bell that has ever tolled.
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