HER HOLIDAY €<< GIS | it of liberty m the City office, Miss Kate ding arrived in Rihampton st a suggestion of tis~ lon in her bearing. d she had been looking forward uly, too, to this summer holi- . She had determined i was to most splendid fortnight she ever known, and to that end 'practised a wonderful range of on to make her dream come now, here she was in Rill- ton, within sight and sound the sea, with ample funds in her arse, and with the comforting wi] that her outward ap- ance was beyond criticism, and she was not quite satisfied, 'The reason of her discontent was ye found in the erratic behavior Mr. Alfred Gibson, a young gen- an belonging to that walk of usually referred to as "some- ng in the City.'"' To Mr. Gibson . Was engaged. __All through June and July, Miss darding and Mr. Gibson had forti- | themselves against the langors # summer by looking ahead to the orgeous time they were going to we at the seaside, with his mo- er as a convenient chaperon. And hen, only the day before yesterday, Mr. Gibson had coughed, and re- marked nervously : be *Yes, but I'm not sure that I'll 'be able to.come, after all," 'Pressed for a reason, he could mly mutter confusedly about the aims of business and unexpected elopments. And-so it was that s Harding arrived alone in Rill- ton, resolving, without much hope of success, to do her best to re the utmost enjoyment out of holiday. : Affecting, even to herself, to be -@ lady of some social position, Miss Jarding put her portmanteau into b, and drove from the station 'secure a room. This pose of in- Jependent means was to be an in- ocent pretence which would do uch towards making the holiday mjoyable. ES gay, flower-decked house on the : front attracted hér attention, and she stopped the cab. In gra- ¢ious tones she inquired about ac- modation. The proprietress, a pleasant, elderly lady, came for- ard to her, and the upshot of the terview was that Miss Harding as enabled to indite an affection- te.screed to Mr. Gibson that even- ng on notepaper embossed wi heading, "Seaview House, Rillhampton." \ week passed, and 6und that, in spite © ofsher fiance, s herself just uch as § er hoped. The boarding-hou filled with pleasant people, accepted Miss Harding as o1 a other week of this," thou girl with a sigh, " e hateful old City! Oh, how I 1 hate leaving all this, to go k and be just a nobody, after lovely time I'm having! Of there's Alfred," she re- d herself dutifully, "but to the sea and cliffs!' - although she may have been y aware of it, would regret to and that something else was personality of Mr. Harry Les- ee "He was the son of the widowed oprietress of the boarding-house, nd he assisted her in the manage- nent of the establishment. On him evolved the 'social arrangements, 'and he it was who organized excur- gions and tennis tournaments. = iss Harding had liked him from the first. He had always taken car« that she should miss no chance of enjoyment. He } her perfectly respectful; -- still, geomed akways to make it his duty to wakeor Miss Harding's pleasure, |fairs to be deduced ad always been to | he} ' she re- "e "I wonder where you'll go. for eee honeymoon ?" he said sudden-. y- ; It was the first time he had ever made reference to the state of af- from her en- gagement-ring. "Oh, itll be years and years be- fore that comes off!' she answered vaguely, "It's bound to be ages yet!' bra 2s "You believe in long engage- ments, then, Miss Harding?' "Oan't help it!'? she said. "But surely there's nothing else to prevent your wedding coming off as soon as you like? I fancy I can see it,"'? he went on, in regretful humor--'St. George's, Hanover Square, eight bridesmaids, little ages in silk, brother officers of the ridegroom, fashionable reception, and all!' "T never said Mr. Gibson was a military man!' she replied quickly. "T guessed it,' he said. "Of course, anyone can see--if you'll forgive me saying so--that you're of 'good family, and rich, and all that sort of thing! Young ladies in your position always marry officers-- MihE luck!' he concluded. gloom- ily. Miss Harding made no remark. "Oh, well, I'm sure we shall all be extremely sorry when you leave us!' he said, reverting to the for- mer topic. "My mother'll be abso- lutely heart-broken. You ought to hear all the nice things she says about you to me!' ~ "Yes. I do wish I hadn't got to go!' she replied wistfully. "Oh, why do summer holidays have to end?' "Seems to me,'"' he replied, with depth of feeling, "that everything jolly has to end before you've had near enough of it!" She glanced at him, and found that his eyes were on her. She look- ed away again quickly. » "Did you get a letter this morn- ing?' he asked, turning the conver- sation. "Let me see! written for five days, has he?' "No; he must be frightfully busy, of course," she said. "Otherwise nothing would have kept him from writing.' " On the morrow there was again no letter from Mr. Gibson for her. 'Come! Don't be angry with him, Miss Harding," pleaded Mr Lester. "He knows you'll be hor again the day after to-morrow, a he's waiting to tell you everythi instead of writing to you." q parture so close at han spent the morning rather ly. In the afternoon there picnic in the woods, and Miss ing strolled off by herself to | wild flowe a mem | | forgotten ihe | nd | ' | and then back was sta "Won't asked, "Vou that pl a whol she declare a seat of ' Pay he had taken her hand and k it. "Mr. Lester !" she exclaimed, in- dignantly. "T__T'm sorry !" he said. ly. 'TI couldn't help it! Y« ed so adorable, and I--I just n't help it! Please try to. f me, I have been mad I was presumption on my part. ought to have remembered the ference in our i You're a lvoung lady of birth, and I'm onl ie on. Please forgive ting that!' : must 1 I 10ns. t 4 hat t 1 "You Tt and the girl was grateful to him for | 'Oh, how I shall hate going back o London again !" she remarke mone evening, when her holiday as half-way through. "I'm sure | must be lovely here all: the year ound, !?? ee -*Tbis," he answered enthusiasti- ly--"it's splendid! Even -weather's stormy, teh the grand old sea! It's glori- all-the year round here!"' ¢ must be," she replied. "Oh, T should like to live here 'al- | " 'Then why don't. you?' he askedr hey glanced at eac h other, and, 'no very obvious reason, they ath blushed a little. T mean." he hastened to say, re are lots of wealthy people ave houses down here."' she nodded gently. . ; zs ey one can't leave London al- mom- | V?-she said, after a @ days passed auietly vo for two ; ; Harding, "not having | a letter from Mr. Gibson é days, punished him by rriting none to him, and, secondly, found it necessary one night to "Jong at the ring on her finger, then remark séverely to her- "Just you remember, please, that ye afeptaged girl! You've got righteto think so much of any. sr fellow!" meee fe -slipped 'by, Miss. Hard- irits began to get more and | pressed at tho imminence et departure. when | I. love to | significant | Af! x | Jatt i she said. she forgave d to be no rift ip for, the rest of ixed fa - down especia " 1 ghe ba 'TOW yy the day. | Althouch the tidings Hat i faction, t Fe : : nsiderable cause for thought x7 ought the keenest s 3- ling appeared :to find co in t} ve to confess every- ester," she reflected nd am, ~ [i --me pret ~ but he l:to earn 4 oon as he sees Alfred el] ik if fo him 1: 's only & day or tivo rt 1 it ean't h h SOMeCLON } Ss pOuUTM bre: the maka mie now : 4 ; se alkal 7 tay = KNOW al It i difference i me now.' After breakfast next she approached Lester. "T want to tell vou something,' "You think I'm someone snecial, don't you? Well, I'm not! I'm only a typist in the City! I saved up for months for this holiday so's T could have a real good time. I'm just a poor nobody. really!' Vou are?' he exclaimed, genu- inely astonished. "T should néver uessed that! T mean----'? >and my sweetheart isn't an marine ' nly three-more clear days!" ced Mr. Lester to her, after) hat evening. It thrilled her | to note the tone of woeful-| voice; "Three more clear.) then I don't suppose we} 1 down here again till | ee x 2 | ; ' officer, He's just a clerk in® the Citvy, So now you know !"' She turned and hurried with flushed, shamed. face. A ean of hours later. Mr. Gibe son-called to see har. The alone for some while in: the ing-room, and then Miss Harding AWAY, ple vy owere He has not } : : | experiments left no room f | _|ing the growth of pea 3, | seedliz ++} were in a vertical plane. dif | ly} hat Iwas. think: | i lahaut how ba } thre ] went up to her room, while Mr. ed off along the front. = |. She came downstairs again just before lunch. -- aS "I suppose you'll be saying good- bye to everything, Miss Harding?' said Lester, intercepting her. He seemed to have been awaiting her advent. : : "T shall be awfully sorry to go!"' she said. "I shall never have such a good time here as I've had this last fortnight. 'member it." Se "There's just one thing I wish I'd known, Miss Harding. You see, I thought you were rich and far above me. If I'd only known you, too, worked for a living----" "Well y? = : 'Well, I honestly confess I should have done my best to cut out your sweetheart! I did forget you were engaged once, didn't I? I--TI sup- 'pose there's no chance for me even now, is there? I love you! You must have guessed it. And if only you'd have me, you could easily live down here at the seaside al- ways. You and I could help mo- ther with this place. Is your fiance returning to lunch here, Miss Hard- ing?' "No," she replied softly; "he's --he's not coming back. You see, he came specially to see me to-day to tell me that he's--he's found someone he cares for much more than me, and to ask me to release him. And of course, I did release him."' She stopped, and lowered her eyes. He stood looking at her for a moment. 'Here! Just step into the office with me for a moment, will you?' he begged, excitedly. "There's no one in there."--London Answers. Fis. : a PLANTS AND TOBACCO SMOKE Many Varieties of Growth Killed by Influence of Tobacco. Prof. Molisch, the plant physiolo- gist of the University of Prague, has shown in some of his earlier work that large numbers of micro- organisms, plants as well as ani- mals, and the seedlings of higher plants are extremely sensitive to the influence of tobacco smoke, some being even killed thereby. Many of the deleterious effects experienced were formerly attributed to the small quantities of illuminating gas | whi requently vitiates the atmos- of such rooms; but Molisch's for doubt that it is really tobacco smoke that xes the ha to9 | phere | dk His pictures show- and vetch a in the rm. the pr« ence in turn of from twe until + et at uy ht hours, icase of the bre they contin ned their iWuminat Gibson, lighting a cigarette, stroll- I shall always re-| In the The famous Mosque of St. Sop famous edifice if it is feasible. CONSTANTINOPLE. hia, shaken recently by earthquake, now threatened by artillery of invaders, who will, however, spare the CANADA THE LAND OF HOPE ---- ENGLISH NEWSPAPER COR- RESPONDENT WRITES. Tells of Suecess of the Energetic Britons Who Become "New Canadians.' In a letter to the London Mail from Prince Albert, Sask., Hamil- ton Fyfe, their special correspon- dent, who reported the recent wes- tern trip of his Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught, says: I have heard wiseacres in Eng- land sneer at the notion of Britons doing better in Canada than in the British Isles. I have never heard them without challenging them. Very seldom have they been in Can- ada. They have merely listened to the grumbling of some returned empty, for whom Canada had no use. They delight in telling of men who have found the climate too se- vere or farm life too lonely, who expected to find the prairie lit by gas-lamps and townspeople rushing out to welcome them simply be- cause they came from over-seas, Such snappings and whim seem, to t who do know Can- not notice. But the harm. t is a good 7% 4 g ada, do and then to prove to peop land what everybody in i that for all who are healtl i rk there i ng to be made in Ly. isa far ee to Canada 2 rr . } in the ie eS oe es en ana women 1] occupations, Ie shou BDO == ne, ed in the} ras wed variolrs ae nents of 41 e breath tn po a riments with tobaeceo sm« | the d on other pl: often | mal d sles on the shoot of potato ¢ results. that | stato. | ra on | © sertion ion from abnor- |- ing} gin with ano , T pea We rd ~ tthought T was luc! tle. influ | it pin it ain't wuth s Some/felHers' necks reminds me o' my | / ss | | Thev ain't no airthly use t' ontil they' re broke. trouble. with a | hosses. hnob \ F lot 0' know is that after they' ve their principles they lay down onto 'em.. gentlemén, is like | ve don't never have, no idea d they be till ve try to} ro Holle, | | Some habits, lSogs- ff 4 swith livin'? these days ime a: fel- x dollar onto? somebody mebody else earns a dollar and a quarter out o' him. The chief trouble with the general: run 0' road commissioners, gen- tlemen, is that they spend more time thinkin' about the commis- sions than they do thinkin' abaout the roads. I tell ye, Bill, I've lived raound these here parts goin' on to 62 years now, and I hain't never sold my vote to nobody, but all the same my time's allers been wuth from $2 to $6 a day to: somebody on "lection day. it as that every Ne " oY The Town Clerk of the City -of a London has a salary of $12,500.- ; Man | most remit | | {heme in the dawn, | }rooted:. The {poor Irish family came out iter of a century ago ind IT had forgotten rome was like. After Iked into my office and & He aston "Well"? : Was 1 why. truth is, vonu're too slow e country's too s| ame to Cana coming home, were Heople not Man. Cli of the a jeading e came out as. a 1 4 a in Alberta. hn on time. One di: who had cleaned -him out night at poker, eriunted { 1 I foWhy. dort ad work inst fool here." remittance cided to: read law. He 4} the examinations, made s > and has nev lool ke a different « town a th £oO° 21 playing er Now, ta ta Be One boy y six. At eight he was pul At twelve he was on a-rancl ing a man's wage. -.When the hotels were built in the Rockies saw his. chance. He provided omnibuses to | take! people to and from the sta-| tions. To this he added an express | service for baggage, ponics and cowboy guides for expeditions. He is only thirtv-one yet, but he is a rich man, He owns a horse ranch} and an: hotel. He is interested in many other. enterprises: 1 btisi- ness which started his fortune As | i i } | 4 { | { | i he expanding every vear: Learn to "Chuck J Next crosses the stage & i man Whom T ran adtoss i bia: "He began on'a Yallwey eo" Bal! Oh. 1 nt Bal ere Colum % > perings | eriorh RS eas ate oo Re ete aw ee Ee : ' | and in. the Palace of Cettinies Prin- | a uceesd to the full possess | cesses |nal joy of the Montenegrins, who, | which. comprise but soon learnt the first lessons which the New Canadian must mas- ter. He learnt to "chuck up his job." If one thing does not suit you, try something else. That is the motto out here. Failure brands no stigma on a man so long as he sets energetically to work in some other line. My British friend tried many lines. After a while he took service as "eub reporter'? on a newspaper. Having shown that he could: write and arrange facts ef- fectively, he was eagerly snapped up by the Progressive Association Lof the city he was then in. He is now its secretary, and a more ener- getic "booster" I never met. The Land of Hope. Newspaper work, by the way, is very poorly paid in Western Can- ada. A stonemason can make 24 shillings a day in Winnipeg. In Prince Albert the rate for the bricklayer is 75 cents an hour, which means on a ten-hours' work- ing day basis, $45 a week. Few re- porters are paid as highly as that. The only man who has so far com- plained to me of doing worse in 'Canada than in England was a re- porter of Saskatoon. He only drew $30 a week, and he said it cost him nearly half that to keep warm in winter. But he was a weedy, deli- cate-looking creature, who spent what little vitality he had in ita, | *orouchinge'"'" instead of looking out 'for or rofitable job. I hav for a more profitable job. 1ave met who looked forward to ** when they had saved upon. One at Cal- "soing home be returning enough has men 4 the Do- ;m™m one English- 10 thinks he would be be ick to them. they ean do tunities, The ft Lope. * i Reckl ess at War who once » -- the black shore where, af OSSOVO, wreckage vas washed by the tid They 'who Tastness were chiefts and e centuries and .d uneonauered. 1 pAe show brec ay and Yet an eX { eam h lara gamblers | Lie they hon- have abroad, stivals, > the dull mu- devoid of in here 1s an amaz- ¢ Ivan, the ed his capital Zabl- rom the Turk, setting cel ] SCHOO} reat rince who hb < fo save i i ress in Obod just Caxton had be- at Westminster. : 1 vanished entv gun his The mac but as armed n is now int *O Marketing enterprise amid. the instinct. n_that the Mon- | rest When | to the Austria hine it revealed' an us. town of Cattaro they are -re- | by authorities' to rob sir bélts of the niichty pistol, but at the frontier 'they resume it, and | is the symbol of their Hberty. | Fa the { } } Humble homage to the Queen ig! 1} t exacted. by. King Nicholas, | isdained, | are described, paternally, as. 'my } d t n - ; >? country's most valuable export. To behead one's enemy-is the: fi- so far from being 4d | Ps i a therefore, dislike long range artil- lery-and the modern rifles which are received from Russia as Christmas presents for the reigning house. oo In England and Wales there are forty special schools for the blind, fifty-one for deaf, and two hundred and forty-five for defective chil- dren, : Out of twenty odd million acres Treland,' nearly due-seventh are barren, © being mountain, turf, bog; or marsh. § é jof it in "Among ja special study of the subject. | \y it happened, and as we all know, there was no question of anything presided at her first council with all the authority of a reigning queén. In the case of the death or declared incapacity heir having reached the age of eigh- teen, becomes ipso facto king or regent as thé case may be. "In this sense, then, "full age" means eigh- teen years. «But in all others the minority of the P tinues,--London Times. _ ks for Food Among the Hakimos,: <= | In a little shack in the village of that sheds a pleasing light on the character of the people. He tells a the Eskimos of Labrador." laid aside ; the floor. was an enormous pot, heaped with lumps and slabs and ribs and joints of raw seal meat. Round the pot the family squatted, every one ex- cept the baby, armed with a busi- ness-like knife. Cutting off pieces of flesh or gnawing at bones, they munched and chewed and smacked their lips with great relish. So busy were they that perhaps I was the only one to notice a slow, shuffling step passing the window. The footsteps turned into the porch, and I heard the dogs yelping as somebody cleared them out of the way. A groping hand felt for the latch, and the door silently opened. A voice said, "Aksuse" (Be strong, all of you), and Apkik, a young man of the village, came in, choking and coughing at the sudden warmth. Nobody seemed to take much no- tice, but John gave a laconic "Ah!"' in answer to his greeting, and the cirele widened to make room for the newcomer. dinner was spread on knife out of his belt. I watched him pityingly as he helped himself with lean and shaking fingers. It was not long before he was satisfied, for he was sadly listless and weary, and with a simple "Nakomek," he wiped his knife upon his trouser-leg and slowly went out. Again nobody took much notice; John said, "Ah!" and Apkik shut the door after him, I was mystified by this strange little drama, and I suppose that I showed my wonder in my face, for John answered the question that was in my thoughts, just as if I had asked it. 'We all know Apkik," he said. "He is a poor young man who can- not hunt or work for himself, and we know that he cannot work be- cause he is ill, I did not invite him to come, but he is quite welcome. No poor man lacks for a meal as long as there is food. It is a cus- tom of the people."' Se ie te DAMAGE-BY RATS. Authorities Put 'Annual. Loss In Franee at $40,000,000. Forty million dollars yearly is the estimated figure of the damage done by rats to crops and property in France, The publication of these statistics by the Incorporated So- ciety for the Destruction of Vermin has given an impetus to the cam- paign for the extermination of the |rodent, which is also known to be a transmitter of disease. The examples by several American cities have been followed | with great interest in France and have led Dr. Fontenelle to 'make | He finds that the role of the rat and the mouse has been very serious in | connection with cases of pneumon- ia. For a long time it has been no- ticed that this disease was more | deadly in hospitals: than other places. The pneumonia microbe be- comes extremely virulent in the blood of a mouse and, if.a sick per- son comes in contact with a mouse microbe, he will be gravely attacked by the disease. Dr. Fontenelle says'that the hos- pitals of Paris, especially the old ones,_are alive with rodents. The pneumonia microbe exists, there- fore, in conditions calculated to in- crease its-virulence and its murder- ous powers of destruction. He urges the necessity of an immediate and relentless extermination rodents in every hospital establish- ment In France or in' any. other country where the rat or mouse may be found. The depredations France on prope are enormous. It is reckoned that a farm of 50 tares of wheat and pasture lands ldsses caused by rats reach an annual minimum of $200, The de- struction by rat' about $1 to each inhabitant. Fontenelle says: "This is too high a tax to pay to the rat tribe and the evet-present dan- ger from the rodent's propagation | of maladies like the plague and pneumonia shows the' wisdom of carrying on a determined war of ex- termination." Sth Set of of the rat in ¢ PL a PASE ARE GS eR MER BRITAIN'S FUTURE KING. "Contingent Coming of Age'? For | the Prince of Wales. | | Tt is 'commonly said, and sup- posed that 'a Prince of Wales | 'comes. of age" on his eighteenth | birthday. In point of fact he does, | and he docs not. The occasion has | been' well deseribed as 'a | gent coming of are," for the words | are only applicable to the prince as | heir to 'the throne, while they are not applicable to him in his private | | contin- { capacity. From and alter the com- | pletion of his, "of her, nth | birthdat. "the heir 2is an stehte : rof-the | throme «an the occurrence of cancy, a8 was 'actiially-the ca the Princess Victoria, i be quéen less than a month after her Wo ame eighteenth birthday. IV. died a year earlier a Regent would have been 'necessary ; but as of the kind, Queen Victoria and of the sovereign, "the rince of Wales con- Okark in Labrador, Dr. 8. K. Hut-| ton observed an Eskimo custom | | It was a queer dinner-party. The| table was pushed info the corner, and littered as usual with clothes} and books and relics of work hastily | n The centre of the feast | Apkik sat down and pulled aj] Mrs. Sarah Sibton, who was NEWS BY MATE AROU _ BULL AND HIS PTOPLE. Land Th Occurrences in The 'Supreme in the _ Reigns sactians Behe Cour wii 1am Pol: Jourb ¥ wilful murder of his brothoe, Miners wives in South in revolt against the new : ig geees, the Mince enry Errington, aged e died in Hartle Hosp yale received from a toy. pistol | The number of public house censes is decreasing. In . 19 there were 90,012 in nd; n there are 87,606. _ The London County Ooune: let 4% acres on Plumstead for grazing purposes, at a1 rental of $25. 8 Robert Garside, of Bu engine-driver on the London~ & North-Western Railway, has ju completed forty years' servico. _ Old London mansions at Golders Hill, Hampstead and Chisola Tork are to be turned into tenements the London County Council, - | 'as born at Guyhome, Cambridgeshire, has just celebrated her hundredth birthday, in the March almshouses. -- ay chester Borough Police Force have -- petitioned the town council for a. revision of their scale of pay. Mrs. Lloyd, wife Lloyd, of Treffgarne Hadl, has been killed in a 'carriage through her horse taking fright a motor car. me Frederick Hunnings, aged thir- teen, and his brother Harold, aged nine, were drowned while playing by the Canal at Earlestown, near Warrington. torious service meda) and an 'an- nuity' of $50 upon Mr. Samuel Hackney of Islington, an Indian Mutiny veteran. A monument is to be erected by the Duke of Portland to Word George Bentinck, on the spot where he was found dead at Welbeck sixty-four years ago. Within niné months 118 people have been killed in London by mo- tor 'buses, the largest number of deaths being in the Chelsea Police Division, Arthur A. Eleombe was seriously injured through the sudden explo- sion in. the steam apparatus of a traction engine outside St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith. As the result of a conpling break- ing a London and Brighton train broke in two near Penge Station. The passengers were shaken -but uninjured. Mr. -Lowther, Speaker of the House of Commons, has been sworn in before the Lord Chief Justice and other Judges as a Justice of the Peace for East Suffolk. When going to a fire the Wan- stead Fire Brigade engine over- turned, throwing all the men into the street. Several of the firemen were seriously injured, A curious funeral proces was lately seen in the Strand. It com- prised a motor hearse and two large eovered-in cars filled with mourn- ers, and around the coffin sat a number of relatives. In a report presented to the Pidu- cation Committee of the London County Council, it is stated that 35.985 London school children. were taught to swim this year. Se ain hie tin Rel ited BALKAN CHEER LIKE GURS. for Slav. "@orrah"* elish "Hurrah." Bennet Burleigh says that the Bulgarian cheer sounds very much like an English "hurrah" that English people usually pro- nownce it "hurrah." Mr. Burleigh is not mistaken. The Bulgarian cheer is "Qorrah,"' with no initial "H" and with an in- defiinite prolongation of the 'ah'. The Russian eheer is the same, It is the Slav variety of the Toutonie 'Hurrah,' used not only by ths English but also by the Germans, Swedes, Danes and others. Bist jis use is wider and more frequent im: Origin and En Same except the Slav than inthe Teutonic ¢oun- --_ tries, liven for-the Kaiser' hurrahs, but three times "Hoch (literally: -2 Bagh ay. in oR: or 1 Jerman "three cheers means not. three gts in i ] : Bulgaria 'three. cheers for the Czar". means three times "Oor- "ahel'? The Seryian cheer is differ- ent, . They usually shout 'Zhivio which is the' equiva) f the French Vive!" the] i Ms ed IS 0 | and the: Hungarian at Ras set A Deep Snow in Many \ustratia. ides, that where snow. is may interest know that there was last a fall of snow throughort Kosciusko district of the Ange - tralian Alps. -It-commenced on a Saturday afternoon, 'and on the following -Wednesday had not ceased for even five minutes, with' the result that the whole conntry was covered to an average depth of two feet.- The trées were laden have an persons down with the flakes, and crashes ~ were heard on all siles as great | mountain giants succumbed to the weight of snow on 'their bougts." The roof of the Koseinsko. Hotel was covered witheover.a foot' of snow. * eople getting in and out." . Thirty-seven members of the Gol. Major Whitmore is establishing a school for tobacco-growers ab Meth- wold, Norfolk, in order te encour. _ age the cultivation of the leaf. of Golonel accident -- The King has bestowed the meri- -- The snow plough had to be - pused tO clear the poad to admit of ra