The Aga Khan, as a magnate of the British turf, is well-acquainted with the process of weighing in. For the celebration of the jublice of his rule over the Khoja community hho has visited Bombay and there, in durbar attended by 30000 of his fol-Jowers, he was subjected to the ple~ turesque ceremony of being weighed against gold bars. 'The result produced gold to the value of £25,125, which by His Highness' direction to be devoted to uplift work and Infant welfare, 'Two other Indian potentates are celebrating their jubilees' this year—the Gackwar of Baroda and the Nizam of "Hyderabad—and celebra-tons of those events have already been Initiated. Owing, howe, the death of the late King-Emy the programmes have, of course, been much curtailed, The weighing of the Aga Khan took place on the day of the first news of His late Majesty's Miness and It was therefore with some foreboding that the Aga Khan must have received Lord Wigram's tele~ gram which conveyed not the King-Emperor's congratulations, but an in. timation of His Majesty's expression of an Intention "before his illness end such @ message. teams. The enthusiastic accounts the vielory over New Zealand sounded, to the detached critic, 0 ay Instiicient attention to. the fact that the visitors were just at the end of a strenuous tour. "The English Wales put rent complexion on the problem and those who appreciated, the really gallant display of the Irish Afteen in losing to the New Zealanders at Dublin were not so ready to believe that the England team bad do nothing but come, see and win on Saturday. The play was evidently even, Dut' the fact remains that Ireland were playing one man short less 2 person than S, Deering—Hfor more than half the game and 3 were able to neutralize England' consequent mastery in the scrum. 'A. H. Bailey, whose form in the New Zealand match had been good, was the hero of an eleventh-hour piece of ortunism which gave Ireland a well-deserved victory. It will. be noted that D. P. Morris whose errors contributed much to the detest by New Zealand was replaced at full back by L. M. Malcolmson. England's full-back, apparently, hada bad apse which cost his side the match, by letting in Bailey.
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