Related article: Woodwell Head in the Cottesmore country. Major John P. Traherne, an ardent fisherman, as well as a great authority on angling, died at Whitehall Court on Janu- ary 28th, after a short illness. The Rev. G. Bourne, canon of Glou- cester, died suddenly on January 31st, in his eightieth year. Canon Bourne rowed in the Eton eight of 1840 and 184 1, and going up to Oxford, rowed No. 5 in the University eight against Cambridge in 1842, the last time the race was rowed from Westminster ta Putney. In the fol- lowing year Mr. Bourne was one of the •* seven-oared " crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, having lost the services of their stroke, F. N. Menzies, through illness. On January 31st there passed away, at his residence Great Yarmouth, Mr. Richard Fielding Harmer, aged seventy-seven years. For over half a century a great wildfowler and naturalist, Mr. Harmer was as a young man keen to hounds and an excellent game shot. One of the oldest members of the Belvoir Hunt, Mr. John Nickolls, died on Sunday, February 3rd at Sleaford. Mr. Nickolls, who had followed the hounds for some fifty-five years, had attended the memorial service on the previous day. Mr. Vernon Francis Drew, an under- graduate of Merton College, Oxford, died while at athletic practice on the O.U.A.C. ground on February 4th. The deceased had partaken of a hearty lunch prior to turning out for practice. The Earl of Galloway died at Cumloden, near Newton Stewart, on February 7th, in his sixty-sixth year. The deceased was in the eleven when at Harrow. The following appeared in the Sportsman of February 9th : — " Earl Roberts was re- cently asked whether he, as stated in some of his biographies, was opposed to athletics in his younger days, and, if so, whether he wished it to be interpreted that he was against the encouragement of sport in the army. To the query he has answered: * 17, Dorset Street, S.W. Sir,— In reply to your letter. Lord Roberts desires me to say that he strongly approves of outdoor sports and games and played both cricket and football as a boy. — Yours faithfully (signed), H. V. Cowan.'" The North Cheshire Foxhounds narrowly escaped disaster on February nth. The meet was at Church MinhuU, and during a run from Aston Little Covert, the fox took them on to the Crewe and Warrington Railway. An express train came up and dashed through the pack, but fortunately no hounds were injured. While Lord Galway*s foxhounds were crossing the Great Northern Railway near Mattersey Wood on February iith, the Scotch express ran into the pack and killed the valuable hound Driver. I90I.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ^35 There were two accidents with the Bicester foxhoands on February I2th, when Colonel Sawle, of Padbury, met with a nasty fall, breaking his leg; and Mr. James, stud groom to Mr. FitzHugh Whitehouse, broke his collar-bone. Sir Edward Stafford, G.C.M.G., who was three times premier of New Zealand, died at his residence, 27, Chester Square, on February I4tb, aged eighty-two years. Son of the Master of the Louth Fox- hounds, the deceased developed very early in life a keen love of sport which he never lost to the end. He went as a young man to Australia, and later to New Zealand, distinguishing himself on innumerable oc- casions as a rider on the flat and across country. A good story is being told, says the Sportsman^ of the King's appearance as a golfer forty- two years ago, when he was a student at Edinburgh High School and University. Tom Browne was the pro- fessional, and he was certainly frank in his comments on his Majesty's play. At last he burst out into a more than usually fer- vent expostulation. ** Don't you know," exclaimed Sir James Baird, ** whom you are addressing ? You are speaking to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ! " " Ah, weel," said the imperturbable Tom, '* his Royal Highness maun learn. If he had done that in a match he would have lost." His Majesty laughed heartily at the frank comment. Daring a run of the Cattistock Fox- hounds, the fox, being hard pressed, leaped from the cliffs at Burton Bradstock, near Bridport, and two of the pack, before they could be prevented, followed its ex- ample. The fox was seriously injured, but managed to drag itself to the sea, whereas the two hounds escaped comparatively un- hurt, one dislocating its shoulaer. The cliff at this point is about 60 ft. or 70 ft. high. The Master of the Middleton Park Harriers, Westmeath, Mr. G. A. Boyd- Rochfort, has received a presentation of plate and a silver hunting norn from the followers of his hounds on attaining his majority. A meeting of the members of the North Cotswold Hunt was held at Broadway, when the committee recommended the election as master of Mr. Charles McNeill » Carlton Curlieu Hall, Leicester, to succeed Captain Cyril Stacey, who had resigned. Mr. McNeill was unanimously elected. The members of the Holdemess Hunt have subscribed a testimonial to George Ash, for many years huntsman to the pack. The present consists of a set of silver spoons and forks in an oak case. With reference to the poisoning of some of the Limerick foxhounds, a man who had been a gamekeeper was detected laying down portions of meat largely impregnated with arsenic. At the local petty sessions the offender was sentenced to two months imprisonment in default of paying a fine Mr. William John Banks, for many years known as the father of the East Kent Hunt, died at his residence, Oxney Park, near Dover, aged seventy-eight years. Mr. Banks was an all-round sports- man, a keen angler, a good shot, and a breeder of greyhounds and other sporting dogs. Many years ago he flayed for the Kent eleven, and also for the Gentlemen of Kent, and was a well-known upholder of the Canterbury week. The stallion Hamburg, owned by the late Mr. Marcus Daly, has been sold by auction in Madison Square Garden, New York, for ;{;i2,ooo, to Mr. William C. Whitney. The famous steeplechaser Ilex, winner •of the Grand National in 1890, has been shot. Ilex was for a number of years ridden to the West Surrey Slaghounds and neighbouring packs. The German Emperor's bag for 1900 totalled 8,563 head of game of different kinds. Of these 2,750 were pheasants, Buy Metaglip 346 were hares, 168 boars, 108 rabbits, 105 fallow deer, 37 red deer, 24 small boars, 6 partridges, 4 roebucks, 4 blackcock, 3 foxes, 2 fallow does, and 6 various animals. Mr. A. Stedall, who is well-known in the racing world, forwarded to Lord Roberts for the widows and orphans of soldiers a cheque for ^£'740 6s. 6d., realised by the sale of seats to view the funeral cortige of the late Queen from the windows of one of his establishments in the West End.