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BUACK&WHITE [Oct. Vol. IV.—No. 53.] BUDGET 13, 1900 Regd. at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper.] [Pkice 2d. l'ubt free, 2^il. angloboerwar.com THE NEW LORD MAYOR Alderman Frank Green, the Lord Mayor elect, is a native of Maidstone, where he was born in 1S35, He has represented the Ward of Vintry in the Corporation since 1878, and as he is a widower,, ths duties of Lady Mayoress will devolve on his elder daughter, Mirs Kathleen Haydn Gr*en , 34 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Oct. i», icod Although the pre- Younger, Gordon sent Adjutant-General, Highlanders, and three Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. men were hit, and, after is not " before the pub- ordering the retire- lic," he leads a very ment, Captain Gordon busy life. Sir Evelyn, himself retirxd. Cap- by t lie way, has seen tain Younger would very much service in also have been recom- Soul li A fr i c a ; h e mended for the Victoria gained the V.C. during Cross had he survived." the Indian Mutiny, and Captain Gordon is a he raised the Egyptian son of Mrs. Gordon, Army in 1883. He Fellside, Moffat, N.B., must feel proud of it of 29, Melville Street, now. Edinburgh, who has v ¥ ^ another son an officer in the Royal Scots, and Still another V.C. a son-in-law a captain falls to the wearers of in the Royal Field the black gaiter but- Artillery, all at the tons, " the three G.'s," front. commonly known as V IF V the Gordon High- angloboerwar.com landers. The latest Tin: very popula? recipient is Captain Canadian officer, William Eagleson Gor- Lieut. -Colonel Walter don, who, "under a M a c d o n a 1 d , com- particularly heavy and mandant of the 481I1 most accurate lire on (Canadian) High- the nth of July last, landers, has had a during an action at long and useful mili- Leeholho&k-, or Doorn- tary career. Enlisting boschfontein , near in the Queen's Own Krugersdorp, organ- Rifles (Canadian) in ised a party to recover March, 1878, he served a gun. He went out for three years as alone to the nearest private and corporal. gun, fastened a drag- In March, 1881, he- rope to it, and then was appointed Second- beckoned the men, who Lieutenant, and in doubled to join him. The latest portrait of Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. November of the same Captain D. Reginald (Photo by l.yd Sawyer) year was made Lieu- Capt. W. E. Gordon Earl of Howe late Rev. Prcfo. Coleridge Taylor Lieut. -Col. W. C. Gordon Highlanders, Who has just succeeded to the Harry Jones The talented coloured musician Macdonald who has gained ihe title. (Photo by Russell and Chaplain to the Queen who has been performing at Commanding the 48th V.C. Sons) (PhotoT.y Russell and Birmingham. (Photo -by Rus- Canadian Highlanders Sons) sell and Sons) BUDGET Oct. 13, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE tenant. He was promoted to Captain in February, 1884. During the North- West Rebellion of 1885 Captain Mao donald commanded No. 3 Service Company, Queen's Own Rifles. In i885 he was appointed Adjutant of the a regiment and continued to serve in that capacity, holding- the rank of Captain until transferred to the 48th High- landers as Major, upon the organisa- tion of the regiment in February, 1892. During the period of organisation o>' the latter corps Major Macdonald dis- charged the duties of Adjutant in addi- tion to those of Major. Upon the death of the late Lieut.-Colonel Cosby, the command of the 48th Highlanders de- volved upon Major Macdonald, and on June 8th, 1900, he was gazetted Lieut.- Colonel commanding. In 1892 he served as 1 Adjutant of the Bisley team, An extraordinary photo taken In 1,000th part of a second By the George Doppei'Anastigmat (." Aufgenommen mit Georg Doppel Berlin Anastigmat " ). The high leap was made in Friedenau Park, and in 1896 came to England as a member of that team. ¥ v * Trooper Karl McKeage, of Strathcona's Horse, has returned to his native place, Da:iville, Quebec, afterhaving served his country in South Africa. He was wounded in the arm, and near Balmoral in descending a clay hill was thrown from his horseover the Earl side of the hill, breaking his Trooper McKeagc angloboerwar.comleg and dislocating his jaw. Stialhcona's Horse. Wounded * "'flip &jjt- j IKH ~*^ WDm 'INI rJSm Australians (Carri'ngton's Horse) changing guard The latest photo of Sir Donald Curric, at Beira who, rumour has it, is to be elevated to the Peerage. (Photo hy Cribb) 36 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Oct. 13, 1900 THE MARQUIS ITO A GREAT JAPANESE STATESMAN ^»'^i» It is just about ten years ago since Japan made a I Generalissimo of the Japanese armies. When peace great national experiment in self-government ; previous was concluded consequent upon the victory of Japan, to that time its people were ruled over by feudal princes Russia, France, and Germany combined to demand and nobles under the Shoguns or vicercgents of the 1 that Japan should retrocede to China the Liaotung asserted his power over the Peninsula, which had been given her Mikado. First the Mikado | by the Treaty of Shoguns, though not without a bloody revolution. Shimonoseki. Marquis Ito felt that Japan was not Then, after commissions had been sent to make careful able to stand against the tluee most powerful military inquiry into the constitutions of the Governments of countries of the world, and was forced to yield. He European countries, a written constitution was granted j managed, however, to obi; in an increased monetary by the Mikado. ine'e unity by way That constitution of compensation was mainly t he from the Chinese. work of the re- But the retro- markable man cession was so who has now unpopular in again been called Japan that he upon to become was driven from Prime Minister of power. And now, the Island Empire after five years, of the Far East, the turn of For- the Marquis Ito. tune's wheel Party politics brings him back have not yet again to office. reached in Japan Marquis Ito is that sharp delini- about sixty years tion with which of age, is of short we are familiar in stature even for this country ; still a Japanese, lias there may be said a strong face with to be two leaders marked features, of popular opinion is able, shrewd, in tlie Land of and intensely pa- the Rising Sun, t r i o t i c . He the Marquis Ito cherishes a great and C o u n I angloboerwar.com admiration for Oku ma. The one England, and has is the head of more than once w hat may be pointed out that called the Liberal an alliance be- party, the other tween Great Bri- of the Radical, tain and Japan though these would dominate terms as applied the Far East, as to Japanese poli- both are mari- tics have not the time Powers, and same significance Japan forms a as they have in splendid natural English. Re- base for naval cently the Marquis operations. The Ito has striven to navy of Japan form a great has during recent national party, years been largely whose watchword augmented, and shall be moderate when the war- but sustained pro- ships now being gress. The one The iVarquis Ito constructed are question in Japan completed, Japan is, whether the Cabinet shall be subject to the Par- will have one of the best navies afloat. The develop- liament, as in England, or subject to the Sovereign, ment of Japan's navy is a principal plank in Marquis as in Germany. Ito says that the latter suits Japan Ito's platform. better at present, as the country is passing through a state of transition. In twenty years, perhaps, it will be ready for the latter. Count Okuma would have full American lifts are now being provided, explains the representative government at once. The two men, Scientific American, with air mattresses in the bottom though in a sense rivals, are close personal friends, and of the shaft to break the shock of an accidental ' it is said that the Mikado takes no important step with- descent. The mattresses ought to fill the shaft for out first consulting both of them. one-sixth of its total height. Thus in the lift of the Marquis Ito has been Prime Minister before, and it Empire Building, New York, there are air beds for was while he occupied that position that the war be- 45 ft. at the base of the shaft, which is 251ft. high. tween Japan and China broke put. Yamagata, who A trial proved that eggs on a lift were unbroken after has just retired from the Premiership, was at that time its sudden descent f:o.n the twentieth storey. Oct. 13, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 37 Free firewood. While coalowiicrs are filling their pockets from the proceed? of high - priced coal the discarded Died in harness. As many of the seasc ned London 'bus horses are serving wooden paving comes in handy tc in South Africa, the unseasoned have fallen victims to overwork cheer the domestic hearth While the Gene- and was born in ral Election may be 1854. He is a of paramount in- prominent member terest in the home, of the National passers-by in Lon- Union of Conser- don's streets have vative Associa- something more to tions, and has been think about than closely identified mere parliamen- with the muni- tary affairs.

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