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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 3

The Kaiser's keenness as a sportsman was shown by hia venturing near a cholera-stricken zone in order to shoot with the Archduke Frederick in Hungary. Considering the handicap caused by a crippled arm, his record with a gun is a remarkable one. According to his Came Book, which was published ten years, ago for private circulation, he Vwi up to that time killed head of game with \\W ,>wn hand These compY-ised. a number of bears, elk, ajid reindeer, in addition to 2700 wild boai'3, 123 chamois, and two aurochs, the rare wild cattle found only in the private domains of the Czar. Three whales, shot with a harpoon gun in Norway, also figured in the list, and the inclusion of twenty foxes proves the Emperor to have been persistently guilty of a crime worse than leseiiiajesto according to English ideas.

The Duchess of Aosta, who, with her husband and two young sons, has iusfc been staying in London, is one of two royal ladies bearing the same title, although her predecessor therein is now more usually kn»wn as Princess Lactitia, Duchess of Aosta. The Princess Laetitia is at once the stepmother and cousin of the present <.','.,1,e, having by a special du; ;•,«.;iisation of the I'ope married, as his second wife, her uncle the late duke, brother of her mother, Drineess Clothiide Bonaparte,

The management of the Galle Face Hotel in Ceylon has arranged for the supply "f i!'"/,en sterilised milk from Australia. The local milk is said to be a fertile source of en'.eric fever.