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DECEMBER, 1906.
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received many encouraging proofs in the
number of communications received from past
members of the School, and in the interest
With this term a new chapter opens in the taken by them in our doings. May we who
long volume of the history of Warwick School, a are still at the School, animated by the example
volume the earliest pages of which the lapse of of those who have gone before us, show ourselves
centuries has ' left almost illegible. That the worthy of the splendid inheritance which ' has
pages of the chapter which is now beginning, come down to us, and of the high traditions of
as they are turned over before our eyes, may which we are now the guardians! Few Schobls,
fulfil—nay, surpass—our highest expectations is, as we have been reminded lately by Mr. Leach's
we are' sure, the sincere wish of all who are in bogk, can look back upon a history that goes
any way connected with the School. There are beyond the days of Edward the Confessor. Pew
many happy auguries for the future. There is Schools have an origin which hes hidden in the
none happier than the patriotism with which the mists of antiquity; in the case of few can' no
Old Boys of the now reunited Schools are rallying certain answer be given to the question
round their Alma Mater at this crisis in her
Quae te tam laeta tulerunt
history. Of this the present Editors have Saecula, quitanti talem genuere parentes?
EDITORIAL.
THE
POETCULLIS.
No Editorial is ever complete without
apology.
an
The new Editors apologise for the
prosaic character of the present number.
They
have sat patiently for hours together in the Edi torial
chair—note that, though there are two Editors,
there is only one chair—waiting for the poems that
never came.
The 2nd X I . was engaged at Wolverhampton
and won by 8 goals to 3. Summers (4), Pyne,
Horton i., London i., and Eeger i. scored for us.
Team: Goal, Williams i.; backs, Eeger i.,
Johnson i.; half-backs, HoUiday, Hadden, E a n c e ;
forwards, Horton i., Perry, Summers, Pyne,
London i.
E.B.D.
Surely in this most poetical of all
English counties
Baconian, even
(for to us in Warwickshire
Eutlandian, theories
are
not
merely "rubbish," but high treason) there must be
some young poets in a school of over two hundred
boys, with "eyes in a fine frenzy rolling," ready
V. Trinity
College,
Stratford.
to "lisp in n u m b e r s " and adorn our pages with
an ode or a dithyramb. I n short, the Editors will
The first match under the Eugby code was played
at home in beautiful weather on November 17th.
prose or verse, from boys at the School, and I t was looked forward to with keen interest and
promise to give them their most sympathetic some misgiving, as our team had had only a few
practices at the game. The contest from the
consideration.
outset was fairly equal, our fellows making up in
vigour and dash what they lacked in knowledge
of the game. They were not even disheartened
FOOTBALL.
by their opponents scoring a try five minutes
after the kick-off. They rushed up the field, and
Vm Wolverhampton
Grammar
School. Deakin, picking up in the loose and dodging well,
scored a try which was not converted. Just
This, the first match of the season, was played before half-time Mullaby crossed our line and
Nothing more was
under Association rules, on October 17th. The the kick was successful.
play in the first half was very even. Ward scoring scored, but our opponents had several of their
for us and Gibbons for them. The latter added best players absent. The -result of the match
another goal in the second half, and this reverse was, however, very encouraging to us.
E e s u l t : Stratford, 1 goal 1 try (8 points);
seems to have effectually roused our team, who
scored 4 goals through Jones i. (2), Foss i., and Warwick, 1 try (3 points).
heartily welcome literary efforts,
whether
in
Jaggard.
Eesult: Warwick, 6 goals ; Wolverhampton,
2 goalsTeam : Goal, Gurney ; backs. Collier i,, Blakeman ; half-backs, Brown, Deakin (capt.), Chubb;
forwards, Jaggard, Dale, Foss i., Jones ii.. Ward.
Team : Back, Eeger i. ; three - quarters,
London i.. Dean, Eance, S t a n t o n ; half-backs,
Hutton, Dale ; forwards, Deakin (captain),
Blackwell, Gurney, Williams i., Chubb, Blakeman, Jaggard, Johnson i.
P.O.C.
THE
Vm Trinity
GollogB,
PORTCULLIS.
Stratfordm
The College were fully represented in this
return match at Stratford on November 21st.
In the first half they scored one goal three
tries. After half-time we pressed them for a
considerable time, but the effort was not succesful and they again gained the upper hand,
scoring 4 tries and a dropped-goal. The school
tackling was very keen, but not low enough to
bring weighty opponents to the ground.
Eesult; Stratford, 5 goals 5 tries (39 points);
Warwick, 0.
Team : Back, Stanton ; three-quarters. Dean,
London i., Eance, Jones ii.; half-backs, Hutton,
Dale; forwards, Deakin (captain), Blackwell,
Blakeman, Poss i., Chubb, Williams i., Eeger i.,
Jaggard.
S.C.
Vm Old Etlwardians
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Played at Warwick on Saturday, November
24th, in fine weather. The school kicked off and
play was fairly equal for a time, but the w e i ^ t
of our opponents soon began to tell and tries
were continually registered for them, the game
ending in a victory for the Old Edwardians by 38
points to nil.
Team: Back, Eeger i.; three-quarters, Deakin,
London, Eance, Jones ii.; half-backs, Dale,
Hutton; forwards, Blackwell, Gurney, Blakeman,
Foss i., Williams i., Chubb, Jaggard, Stanton.
B.B.D.
Vm King
Henry
Vlll.'s
Goventrym
Scltool,
.• Played at Warwick on November 28th. We
I immediately began to press, and after some
! minutes Dale crossed their line. Blakeman bv fine
I footwork and smart picking up soon afterwards
added another try. In the second half matters
were reversed as they scored twice, converting
at the second attempt. Our backs now opened
up the game and Coventry were hard pressed.
At last Hutton, running round the scrum,
grounded the ball behind their line and Dale
converted with a fine kick. The game was finely
contested all through by teams of unequal
weight and knowledge of the game. Some of
their bigger boys passed well and required a good
deal of stopping. Our team is now beginning to
find out that a man's head is a slippery thing
and that a better grip can be had of the waist
or legs. There is still a tendency to kick too
hard, and a certain hesitancy especially when
near the line. We are more than satisfied, however, at the progress made this term, and with
more practice and coaching we are fairly confident of turning out a good team.
Eesult: Warwick, 1 goal 2 tries (11 points);
Coventry, 1 goal 1 try (8 points).
Teams :—Back, Eeger i. ; three-quarters,
London i., Eance, Blackwell, Stanton; halfbacks, Hutton, Dale; forwards, Deakin (captain),
Bickley, Chubb, Williams i., Blakoman, Gurney,
Jaggard, Drage.
B.B.D.
CADET
CORPS
NOTES.
The Corps started this term without the support
of some of its most prominent members. ColourSergeant Jenkins has left us for Cambridge, and
Sergeant Eance also left a Section leaderless.
However we are rejoiced to say that the strength
of the Corps has shown no numerical falling off.
In order to encourage the younger members of
the Corps, a special section has been set aside for
the training of recruits and the more backward of
the old hands. The experiment bids fair to be a
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success, the section already showing some knovrl e ^ e of military evolutions. Next Term tboy
willcommence a musketry course on the Moiris
tube range, which has now been put into an
effic^ept state of repair. The Corps was twice
inspiected by the Adjutant in the summer term,
on the first occasion for the purpose of inspecting
the musketry drill, when some 75 per cor.t. of the
Coi:ps were passed as fit to go to the range, the
others being sent back for further Morris tube
practice, owing to inability to pass the physical
test, a fault which time alone can remedy. At
the inspection of the infantry drill, held later in
the Term "he expressed hinlself quite satisfied with
the Work of the Corps, his only adverse criticism
being called forth by the inability of some of the
Corps to attain that rock-like immobility, which
is so essential to a smart appearance on parade.
The chief interest in the summer time being in
the ielass firing, which, being, a new . experience
for most of the corps, was looked forward to with
soige .misgiving. Such fears proved to be groundless,, the results'being highly satisfactory, it being
onl^. necessary, to sen^one boy back to repeat his
practice, As will be seen from the returns, the
general average was distinctly pronaisipg, a fact
for(.\yhiph we have largely to thank SergeantInstructor Pell. Unfortunately it was found
impossible to complete the course during the
summer term. In conSequence the final practices had to be carried through under far from
favourable'conditions in October. The interest
in the competition for the School Cup was maintained up to the last round, the winner ultimately
proving to be Privaie Carty, whose score of 196
represents good steady shooting. London, i.,
was runner up with 186.. Unfortunately several
boys who • left at the end of the summer term
were unable to complete their course, but of the
36-who did, 26 obtained the War Ofiice mark of
very good, 9 that of good, while the general
average worked out at 154-4, or 14-4 above the
" very good " standard.
The following reached the standar>: necessary
for a marksmanship badge, the scores out of a
possible 240 being : —
Private Carty ...
..
196
Corporal London
..
186
..
181
Private Ward ...
..
181
Private Drage ...
..
179
Private Mann, i.
..
172
Private Holliday
..
171
Private James, i.
Private Harrison, ii. .
..
170
170
Private Pyne ...
..
170
Private Nichols, i.
Lieutenant Day
..
198
Lieutenant Eobb
..
193
The following are the Officers and N.C.O.'s :—
Lieutenant J. D. Day.
Lieutenant 0. B. Eobb
Section i.—Sergeant Chubb.
Corporal London, i.
Lance-Corporal Williams, i.
Section ii.^-Sergeant Matthews.
Lance-Corporal Owen.
Section iii.^-Corporal Reger, i. .
Corporal Coyne.
Section iv.—Colour-Sergeant Deakin.
Lance-Corporal 3art, ] .
SCHOOL
NOT ES.
We were granted an extra halfTholiday on
November 5th, in honour of the re-election of
Alderman Kemp, O.W., to the Mayoralty of
Warwick.
Our thanks are due to Colonel Cooke for his
presentation of a full set of the " Warwicensis,"
and to the Old Boys for a copy of Mr. Leach's
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" History of Warwick School." We hope to
publish a review of the latter book in one of our
future numbers.
We offer a hearty welcome to Mr. A. H.
Doherty, B.A., late Demy of Magdalen College,
Oxford, Mr. C. W. Percivall, B.A., Scholar
of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Mr. J. S.
Bazeley, B.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, who
have joined the staff this term.
We congratulate E. B. Deakin on the energy
which he has shown in all branches of the life of
the School, and especially on the enthusiasm he
has infused into the games. He has been
worthily backed up by the other prefects.
The special preachers this term have been the
Eev. F. H. Lawson, Vicar of St. Nicholas, and
the Eev. A. .J. K. Thompson, Chaplain of H.M.
Prison, Warwick.
BIRMINGHAM
LETTER.
T o THE E D I T O K S O P THE " POBTCULLIS."
28th November, 1906.
DEAR SIBS,
Once again it falls to my lot to write a
Birmingham Letter.
Let me first wish the
School long life and prosperity in the new
chapter of its history. For myself, when I last
visited the old School at Myton in September, I
saw every prospect of increased success. The
" ringing grooves of change " did not step outside
the pathways of tradition. The new chapter
follows naturally apon the last.
Here in Birmingham we are not very much in
the way of births, marriages, and deaths at
present. These, of course, form the basis of
every O.W. Letter. But I see my successor in
Loudon, B. N. Crowther, entered the golden
bonds of Hymen on October 6th. The Father of
our Club, the Venerable Archdeacon Baly, M.A.,
has resigned the chaplaincy of Windsor Great
Park. D. Currall is living on the S iskatchewan
in British North America, with whom our
friend. Dr. Sam Browne, had some talks over old
times. That champion of the Conservative party
in Derbyshire, Dr. J. Court, J.P., was in evidence
at the recent political demonstration in the Town
Hall here. He told me much of his life at
Warwick, under Dr. Mill, where not the least of
his impressions was of the power of the Headmaster's arm when using the cane. I see A.
Tibbits has become a member of the new Society
of Warwickshire Polk in London. I had a chat
with G. E. Newill last night, and quite recently
I saw W. H. Gerrard, and the two Smiths, P. E.
Payton, S. H. Eowbotham, A. E. Sherrey, A. K.
Edwards, and A. D. Mathews flash across my
horizon from time to time. The latter has been
appointed Treasurer of the Birmingham and
Edgbaston Debating Society. He recently opened
a debate on " Socialism," when he was opposed
by E. F.-J. Sawyer. W. H. B. Hatton is now in
Germany, observing the continental methods
used in the steel and iron trade. B. J. Ward has
recently been acting as Pathologist at the Queen's
Hospital. For the rest, I know not of their
doings, except that they are quietly—but, no
doubt, none the less surely—maintaining the
traditions of Warwick in their respective spheres.
Floreat semper Schola, et Fortuna sequatur.
Yours faithfiilly,
DE
BIEMINGHAM.
THE
CAMBRIDGE
T o THE E D I T O E O F THE
POETCULLIS.
LETTER.
LONDON LETTER.
" PoETOULLIS."
T o THE E D I T O E S O P THE " PoBTCULLIS."
DEAK S I E ,
DEAB SIES,
There have been two events
which have
at Cambridge
caused a certain excitement,
the
" G r a c e " of the Senate abolishing the SeniorWranglership, and also the visit of the South
Africans, by whom the " Varsity " were badly
beaten.
Mr. Davies, for so long Classical Master
at Warwick, is coaching men for the Little-go
and Classical Specials.
O.W's resident in and about London.
G. H .
Brown writes that he played regularly for his
village cricket team during the summer, and is
now appearing for the Ist XV. of the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank.
Considering their small
number the O.W.'s did very well in the Freshers
Sports.
I have the pleasure, for the first time, of sending you what news I have gathered from the
L. A. P. Anderson was 2nd in the high
B. AUsop has started practice on his own as a
surveyor and estate agent.
May he have every
j u m p ; he is also reading hard to pass his first
success.
M.B. in December, and so has not much time on
anything about himself, but he writes that he
his hands.
recently met G. 0 . Nugent who, after fulfilling
L. E. Wellburn is too modest to say
duties in the
Congratulations to B. B. Jenkins on winning
the ICO yards ; he was distinctly faster than anyone else.
Colonial
Secretary's
Ofiice
at
Antigua, was promoted to a post in Northern
Nigeria, where he sailed in September last.
is now a captain in the Scottish Eifles.
He
Con-
gratulations to Dr. A. P . Gibbons, my l^noured
L. G. C. Bourchier was first in the high j u m p ;
but the height was not as good as it might have
been.
The last named is reading for the History
Tripos.
predecessor, who was married a year ago, though
no notice appeared in the " Portcullis " about it.
Still, " b e t t e r late than never!"
H e has now
taken up golf, together with his wife, who is a
With all good wishes for the future prosperity
of the School.
very keen player.
T. C. Newman informs me that he obtained his
Believe me, very sincerely yours,
LL.B. degree at London University some two
years ago, and for the past eighteen months has
" CANTAB."
been qualified to practice as a solicitor.
His
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POETCULLIS.
brother—B. L. Newman—is to be married this
month at Hong Kong, being at present at
Shanghai,, as a building surveyor, under the
Shanghai Municipality.
T o THE E D I T O B S O F THE " PORTCULLIS."
DEAB SIES,
Warwick School naturally played a somewhat
prominent part in the great Pageant of last
With all good wishes to those at Warwick,
July.
May I suggest that, by way of com-
memorating this event, steps be taken to secure
Yours faithfully,
a photograph of the " School Group " that so
H. A. A.
London Secretary to the " Portcullis," pro tern.
greatly delighted the spectators ? The photograph
might be placed in a prominent position somewhere on the walls of the corridors, and so serve
to remind us of what will surely prove to have
been a landmark in the history of the school.
Talking of photographs reminds me that we
CORRESPONDENCE.
are rather behindhand with our collection of
what I may perhaps be allowed to term " School
Worthies."
To THE
EDITORS OF THE " POETCULLIS."
I should like to propose that some
attempt be made to form a collection of portraits,
which, placed in a suitable position, would serve
DBAB SIRS,
It has been the custom for many years past
for football and cricket matches played by Warwick School to be reported in the " Field," and
sometimes in the " Sportsman."
There are a
to supplement the large collection of names on
the oak panels of the Dining Hall.
I am, your obedient Servant,
" 0 . W."
great many O.W's who, like myself, are always
glad to see these notices, and it would surely be
a great pity if the custom were discontinued, as
these reports always tend to keep O.W's interested
in the school athletics.
Tpois Semaines de Vacances.
Moreover, the reports of matches in the " Portcullis " are apt to be rather belated.
Ce que je vais vous raconter, ce n'est pas
une production litt^raire, mais simplement une
I am, yours faithfully,
histoire d'une excursion fait par deux 6tudiants
AN OLD WAEWICK COLOUE.
anglais dans une des plus belles regions du monde
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POETCULLIS.
—le sud de la France; et j'espfere, en vous
racontant cette histoire que je ne vous ennuie
pas trop.
Nous 6tions etudiants a Paris, moi et mon
ami. Nous avions passe un hiver tr^s pluvieux,
travaillant eDsemble, assistant aux memes cours,
et faisant les memes promenades, tantot au Bois
de Boulogne, tantdt sur les boulevards et dans
les rues grandes et petites de la belle ville,
de sorte que nous 6tions devenus de bons
camarades. Nous etions un peu fatigues de la
vie k Paris. Je ne sais pas si nous travaillions
trop, peut-§tre oui. Si nous n'6tions pas fatigues
a cause de nos 6tudes, c'6tait bien k cause de la
pluie, car il tombait de I'eau tout cet hiver.
La nuit du 31 JVTars nous trouva bien install6s
dans un compartiment de la seconde classe en
route pour Avignon oii nous arrivames k sept
heures et demie le lendemain matin. Nous
6tions bien aises de mettre pied k terre apr6s
douze heures de chemin de fer. Nous dirigefimes nos pas vers I'Hdtel de I'Europe, vieille
maison entourant une oour, converte de plantes
grimpantes et ombrag6e d'un platane 6norme.
Quel beau temps il faisait ce-jour-la. Et quel
changement pour nous! En v6rit6 c'6tait un
grand plaisir de voir le beau soleil, les routes
blanchies par la poussifere et le ciel bleu, apr6s
avoir regards le ciel gris et sombre de Paris
pendant des semaines.
gris de cette petite ville paresseuse. Presque
tout est gris au printemps en Provence, sauf les
routes blanches et le ciel bleu. II me semble
que le ciel est toujours couleur de turquoise
dans ce pays-1^. Mais il faut rfevenir k nos
moutons. Comme je vous ai d^jk dit le theatre
romain fut bati au premier si^cle et il y a assez
de place pour un auditoire de quarante mille
personnes.
Maintenant il n'y a que quatre mille habitants
k Orange mais pour tout cela on ne pent pas dire
"Ichabod " car sa gloire est toujours Ik. Apres
avoir d6jeun6 a I'Hotel de la Poste, oii on vend
du vin 6pouvantable nous nous sommes remont6s
en bicyclette pour revenir k Avignon oii nous
sommes arrives vers les quatre heures. La
distance d'Avignon k Orange est k peu pres trente
kilometres mais ayant de bonnes bicyclettes et
sur une route dont la surface 6tait comme un
billard ces trente kilometres nous semblerent
comme dix. II faut voyager loin avant qu'on
puisse trouver une ville belle comme Avignon.
EUe est int6ressante au point de vue de son
histoire aussi bien que de son architecture. EUe
est entour6e de murs batis au XIV™^ si^cle, et
on peut tr^s bien s'imaginer transport6 a eette
6poque-l&, en regardant ces vieux murs gris
oouronn^s de leurs machicoulis. En dedans il y
a de tr6s beaux monuments. Le palais des papes
construit au XIV™" si^cle, le plus bel exemple du
style Gothique, palais et forteresse en meme temps,
est plein d'int6ret. La cath6drale de Notre Dame
des Doms k gauche et aussi la promenade des
rochers des Doms nous int6ressent beaucoup.
Celle-ci se trouve au sommet d'une espece de
falaise au milieu de la ville qu'on peut regarder
d'en haut avec ses toits gris et s6s petites rueiles
serpentant ca et 1^.
Notre premiere promenade en bicyclette nous
amena k Orange, petite ville situ6e au Nord
d'Avignon. On y trouve des monuments bien
int6ressants, un arc du triomphe attribu6 au
premier si6cle el un theatre remain de la meme
j)6riode, toiis les deux dans un trds bel 6tat de
conservation. Le th^dtre romain est vraiment
un oeuvre magnifique et a un air tr6s majestueux,
Tout le monde a enteudu parler du pont
61ev6 comme une tour, parmi les maisons aux toits d' Avignon. Ce pont de Saint B^nezet paralt
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etre le plus ancien parmi eux construits au moyen
age. Commence vers 1180 et termine dix ans
apres, il traverse, ou plutot il traversait le Ehone
sur dix-neuf arches. Le pont ne compte plus
aujourd'hui que quatre arches et sur la pile la
plus rapproch^e de la rive gauche du fleuve
s'eleve la chapelle d6di6e a Saint Nicholas qui
existe encore aujourd'hui (Saint Ben^zet 6tait
sup^rieur de la confrerie des hospitaliers-pontifes
institud au XII°i« sitele pour construire les ponts
et secourir les voyageurs).
pool to Colon, calling at La Pallice and Kingston
Nous sommes rest6s h, Avignon deux jours; le
deuxi^me nous nous en allames voir le chateau et
la forteresse de Saint Andr6, sur la rive droite du
Eh6ne, eonstruits au XIII""^ si^cle. Pour y
arriver, aprfes avoir entr6 dans le village de
Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, il faut suivre une petite
ruelle large de trois metres flanqu6e de maisons
tres vieille et tres pittoresque. Au bout de cette
ruelle qui monte toujours on arrive h la porte du
chateau. Le passage de cette porte fort 6troite
comme ceux de presques toutes les autres de cette
6poque s'ouvre entre deux tours saillantes perc6es
d'arch^res et rdunies par une courtine (mur). Ce
passage 6tait autrefois d^fendu par une ou deux
herses, entre lesquelles de larges ouvertures,
rastes machicoulis permettaient d'assommer 1'
assaillant pendant le temps qu'il essayait de
forcer les herses.
surprised that people die of fever there, as the
(A suivre).
(Jamaicaj.
Colon is a small town, very dirty and very hot,
and I was glad when we were able to get a train
across the Isthmus to Panama.
The distance
across is about 60 miles, but we took nearly four
hours to do it, killing a man on the way.
The
scenery along the hne was interesting, as the
canal operations were in full swing.
I am not
houses are built right over swamps, which are
natural incubators for mosquitoes.
Panama was
in a frightful condition when I was there, as the
Americans were laying sewers through all the
streets, and consequently the air was not as pure
as it might have been, and the place was full of
yellow fever, and also had two cases of plague.
I stayed in the town one day, and then went
aboard the steamer, which was lying outside of
Flamingo Island.
We lay there eight days
loading, and when we arrived at Guayaquil,
were put in quarantine for three days.
Guayaquil is a great improvement on Panama,
the streets being wider and cleaner.
The houses
are all built entirely of wood, on account of the
earthquakes, which are very frequent, but the
town is very unhealthy.
LIFE
IN
ECUADOR.
For instance, in
January, February, and March of this year, the
average death-rate was 10 per thousand per
About twelve months ago, I left England to
take up a position in a mining camp, at Zaruma,
in Ecuador.
We had a fine passage from Liver-
month.
We left for Santa Eosa by river steamer. This
place is two days up river, and is very difi&cult to
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get at as the river bends so often. It was very
hot, and the boat was infested with mosquitos,
which seemed to bite right through one's clothes,
but we passed the time away having pot-shots at
the " c r o c s " in the river. At Santa Eosa we
resumed the journey on muleback.
The first
day's ride was chiefly through jungle, and the
scenery was very fine. Some of the butterflies
were like birds and very beautiful, as also were the
numerous birds. There is no proper road, merely
a track made by the mules, which winds along
the banks of the river, which we crossed 47
times. On the second day we ascended abruptly
and then the really fine scenery began. The
track itself is very hard to describe, but it is like
a huge spiral staircase (this is without exaggeration). The steps are formed by the constant
treading of the mules, and also through the wet
weather.
I n places one side of the wall is about 30
feet high, and on the other side is a sheer drop
of hundreds of feet. We reached the top in the
early morning, and it was fine to see the clouds
below you with the peaks of the smaller mountains sticking up through them, and when the
sun rose the sight was much finer. The other
side is not so fine, the undergrowth not being so
luxuriant, and we soon got into dry moorland,
where it was exceedingly hot.
The camp lies in the bottom of a valley at a
place called Portovelo, near Zaruma, and once there
you seem to be quite out of the world. Life in
the camp is very dull, as when your work is done
there is no amusement, as there are only about
24 white men. Sports of any kind were not to
be thought of, as it was too hot, and the ground
was much too hilly. There was no piano, but
one or two fellows played the guitar, but on the
whole the social life was very poor.
Malaria fever is very prevalent there, and there
were few men who did not have it some time or
other. I was a great sufferer from it, indeed, I
had it so frequently that I was obliged to leave
and have since come down to Buenos Ayres.
All white men have to drink distilled water, as
the river water is not good, three men having
died of dysentery some years ago through drinking it.
There are two seasons, the dry and w e t ; the
wet season lasts from December to June, and the
dry season from June to December, During the
wet season, it rains very heavily, and the roads
get very b a d ; sometimes the mules are unable to
extricate themselves from the mud, and one sees
hundreds of skeletons along the road from Santa
Eosa. When I came out from the camp I had to
walk the whole of one day, the roads being too
bad to ride. I t is intensely hot all the year
round.
The natives are a mixture of Spanish and
Indian, and are very ignorant, immoral and spiteful. There are a great number of Indians a few
days journey from the camp and they often
come in to sell their goods.
The work in the mine is very interesting, and
it is a fine sight to see a dozen or so compressed
air machine drills running at once, and also to
see the hand-drillers. The latter are paid very
badly, they get about 3/- per metre for hard rock
and 2/- for soft rock ; it is very rare that a man
drills more than 1-|- metres, but I have seen a
man drill 3 metres in hard quartz, but this is
unusual.
Eecently two natives shot an Englishman
there, but the law in Ecuador is so slack that
nothing was done to them, but I believe the
Government have taken the matter up since.
C. E O G E E S W A D E .
THE
D J U ^ H . M B E C E E has been elected a member of
the Central Committee of the Cooper's Hill
Society.
O.W. NOTES.
MAEEIAGE : CKOWTHEK—WATSON.—On
the
6th
October, at St. Saviour's, Clapharn Common,
by theEev. Canon C. P. Greone, B.A., Eector
of Clapham, assisted by the Eev. Leigh H .
Nixon, M.A., Curate-iu-charge, Bertrand
Nelson, younger son of the late Alfred H .
Crowther and of Mrs. Crowther, of 29,
Macaulay Eoad, Clapham Commion, to Mary
Georgiana, youngest daughter of the late
George Watson, of 73, Victoria Eoad,
Clapham Common, and niece of Mrs.
Baker, of 3, The Cedars, Clapham Common.
The Honeymoon is being spent in India,
Our hearty congratulations to B.N.C.
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E E V . CANON J. A. EICHABDSON has lately
been elected by the Synod Bishop of
Prederictou, New Brunswick.
Bishop
Eichardson, himself familiarly known as
"Andrew," is one of four brothers of that
name who were at Warwick under Mr.
Grundy and Dr. Way. Another brother
—the elder—Lionel, holds two of t h e
Athletic records at Warwick, viz., the
Hundred Yards in lOJ sees, and the Cricket
Ball, 105 yards, both set up in 1880, and
never since approached.
Lionel afterwards gained various athletic distinctions
in South Africa, including the lawn tennis
championship. If we mistake not Bishop
Eichardson began life in Canada as a
Schoolmaster. W e offer him our heartiest
congratulations.
H e is the first 0 . W., of
later days at any rate, to attain to such
high distinction in the Church.
B. W . MANN, who lives at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, has just been appoined Captain of
the local company of the Church Lads
Brigade (over 70 strong).
T H E E E V . W . G . KBTWORTH has lately been
ordained priest in Lichfield Cathedral. H e
is one of the assistant clergy in a parish of
13,000 souls at Tunstall, a town in the
Potteries.
E. C. WiSftTH has been appointed to an assistantmastership at Framlingham.
G. C. T E W is coaching in London for the Indian
Civil Service, and H . A. ALLCOCK for the
Home Civil Service. We wish them every
success.
Our hearty, if belated, congratulations are due to
the E E V . H . T . J. WARING on his appoint-
ment to the Eectory of Kirkcaldy, N.B.
A. MCLBOD is playing tor the Glasgow High
School F.P's 2nd XV.
A. A. COMYNS is playing for the Monkstown
E.F.C., Dublin.
W. V. P . H .
OLD WARWICIAN CLUB.
The following is a list of new members :—
Allcock, H . A., Shirburn, Belmont, Surrey.
Bennett, J. E . W., 19, Milverton
Leamington,
Terrace,
Birkett-Barker, P . E., Lapworth Croft, Warwickshire.
Cooke, H., 97, Lichfield Street, Tamworth.
Plant, W. J., 5, Cannon Street, Preston, Lancashire.
Watson, P . A., Charmouth, Dorset
omitted from previous list).
(accidentally
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Wilj^ington, A. G., Great Ayton Vicarage, Yorkshire.
The following members have notified change
of address : —
Addenbrooke, A., B.A., (i) The Platts, Kidderminster,
(ii) 7, Divinity Eoad, Oxford.
Anderson, L. A. P., (i) CoUyhurst, Leamington,
(ii) Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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