For the time being today's instalment of the Country Diary will be the last from the able pen of Mr. E. 5, Wilkinson, who is leaving for a short holiday in England. There is every hope that when he returns he will again take up the task of keeping readers acquainted witl all the fascinating things he manages with his amed eye to perceive in the country, writing in his inimitably graceful and easy style which so much to the charm of his notes. In hi lo today Mr. Wilkinson tells how he w noded to take up the work, and it is, p a form of poetic justice that Mr. A. de C. owerby is acting temporarily as his locum ienens, for it was Mr. Sowerby who suggested t Mr. Wilkinson was the very man for the That has proved to be correct, and in wishing Mr. Wilkinson a good holiday and a restoration to health after all the recent strain he has been through, this journal expresses the hope that when he returns he will continue to afford the enjoyment he has given during these last four y Mr, Sowerby needs no introduc:
the readers of this journal, as for many ast he has contributed most interesting s e columns on a variety of sub-
On Monday he will commence a series ature Notes" which will be continued on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week. They in their turn it is believed will prove of interest to readers, for it is an stonishing fact that though the average man knows little about natural history it is always a subject in which his interest is readily kindled.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.