In the crisp phrases of & typical naval officer Captain Evans of H. M. S. Carlisle on Thursday told of that great struggle between man and nature in Capt. Scott's desir for the South Pole to a crowded house at the Lyceum Theatre. After a brief introduction by Mr A. Brooke Smith the lecturer plunged into his subject with that characteristic simplicity—.which marked his every utterance—even that with which he ended his talk. There were no fine periods and rolling sentences, no elaboration of language to make his point more clear or his description. more vivid, but through all his homely chat ran the burden of a great epic:
Tracts over which the feet of few have passed, sights which the eyes of as few have seen are interesting enough either when spoken about or viewed through the photographic art of Mr. Ponting. But when all this accompanies the stirring tale of a sublime intrepidity, and dogged endurance, when it is all rounded off with a heroic self-abnegation, it is no wonder that children and adults hung on every word that. fell from the lips of a man who has lived through there things.
Those of us. who have been fortunate to attend one or other of Capt. Evan's lectures have been privileged beyond countless others, or no printed page can ever convey the impressions that were created last night. The story of the dash through the dazzling white wastes of the Antarctic wil live longer than records of the gallantry of spontaneity, as the steady perseverance towards the achievement of an ideal, and those who have heard this wonderful tale will ever treasure the memory of that one of a brave band who so Worthily maintained the traditions of our race, Turrty-rive destroyers have, by order of the Secretary of the U. 8. Navy, been ordered mainly from European waters to join the Asiatic fleet under Admiral Strauss.
Maatstrate Kuan, of the Mixed Court, has raised $100 to be given to the families of the two Chinese detectives who lost their lives in the recent fight with robbers on Pakhoi Road.
Tue death occurred on April 30 at his residence, at Kanagawa, Yokohama, of Mr. John Higginbotham, who has for some time carried on business as stockbroker. Mr, Higginbotham was for a number of years with the firm of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca., first in the silk department, where-he was for a time assistant inspeefor, and later in the import department. In 1900 he started business on his own account as a share broker, and dealt extensively in Japanese bonds and shares, being among the first to introduce these to foreign investors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.