NAME 



5023 



NANA SAHIB 



to drop their previous 



names at tin- lurth of sons, and to 



.i-iimi' instead the sons' names, 



aes meaning father of N. 



I .copies, as Fuegians and 



. taboo the names of the 



deceased, an. I in 'I'.ilnii .mil Xulu- 



l.nid i xtend this prohibition to all 



related words in th* language, for 



a time at least. 



Name, FEAST OF THE. Roman 



Cat In 'lir fi-ast in honour of the 



Blessed Virgin Mary. It arose in 



Spain, in the 16th century, 



and is one of 20 of a similar 



i . First kept on Sept. 22, 



then on Sept. 8, it ia now ob- 



M-r\ed on Sept. 12. 



Name Day. Term in the 

 London .ind other Stock Exchanges. 

 It was applied to the second day 

 of the fortnightly settlement, when 

 the names of the purchasers of 

 stocks and shares were handed in 

 by the brokers concerned, pre- 

 paratory to the following pay day. 

 Since August, 1914, when the fort- 

 nightly settlements were aban- 

 doned, there have been no name ' 

 days, transactions being settled 

 daily. See Stock Exchange. 



Namoi OK PKKL RIVER. River 

 of New South Wales, Australia. It 

 rises in the Liverpool Range and 

 flows for about 600 m. N.N.W. to 

 join the Barwon or Darling river. 

 Its upper valley, almost encircled 

 by mountain ranges, is a valuable 

 wheat-growing area. The lower 

 .alley is a pastoral area. 



Namnr. Prov. of Belgium. It 

 is contiguous with the provs. of 

 Brabant, Hainault, Liege, and 

 Luxembourg, and with France. 

 The surface is generally hilly, and 

 the prov. is intersected by the deep 

 and picturesque valley of the 

 Meuse. The fertile soil of the N. is 

 well cultivated . the S.E. part is 

 covered with valuable forests, re- 

 presenting a continuation N. of the 

 French Ardennes. The Sambre 

 valley is the chief industrial area, 

 and there are rly. services to all 

 important towns. Namur is the 

 capital, the three arrondissements 

 being Namur, Dinant, and 

 I'lulippeville. Area 1,414 sq. m. 

 Top. 357,000. 



Namur (Flemish, Naemen). 

 TONMI of Belgium, capital of the 

 prov. of Namur. It lies 35 m. by 

 rly. S.E. of Brussels, at the conflu- 

 ence of the Sambre and Meuse. The 

 disused citadel stands between the 

 two rivers, and Salzinnes, Bel- 

 grade, S. Nicolas, and Jambes are 

 suburbs connected by tramway 

 with the town. Namur is a rly. 

 junction, has barracks and other 

 military buildings, law-courts, and 

 a prison. The industries include 

 the manufacture of cutlery, h-at her. 

 iron-work, and distilling. The 18th 



nullity cathedral of 8. Aubain, in 

 nance style, on the site of 

 .in i, 11 In r Imilding, contains the 

 heart of Don John of Austria. The 

 17th century church of S. Loup is 

 a good example of the Baroque 

 style. The late 14th century belfry 

 was rebuilt in the 16th. There 

 are museums of archaeology, and 

 above the citadel is a linely laid- 

 out park. Pop. :52.<HM). 



Namur, SIEGES OF. In the war 

 of the (Jrand Alliance, the French 

 under Vauban invested Namur, 

 May 26, 1692, and captured the 

 town on June 5, and the citadel 

 itself on Juno 23. Namur was 

 I' I", n ded by the Dutch engineer, 

 Menno van Coehoorn (1641-1704), 

 who constructed its fortifications. 

 In 1695, however, William III of 

 England, with Coehoorn, besieged 

 the town, now defended by Bouf- 

 flere, and after 67 days' investment 

 captured the citadel on Aug. 30, 

 1695. The later for ifications were 

 constructed in 1888 by Brialmont 

 as part of the Meuse Valley system. 



At the outset of the Great War it 

 was prominent as the meeting 

 point of six rlys. and the pivot on 

 which the French armies were to 



lette, began. Next day the garrison 

 of Namur, supported by 3,000 

 French infantry, attacked the Ger- 

 man artillery positions, only to be 

 repul-.-d with heavy loos, and on 

 Aug. 23 Lanrezac wan forced to 

 retreat in order to escape envelop- 

 ment. By the morning of that day 

 only three of the Namur fort* 

 remained in action. The rapid 

 advance of the Germans compelled 

 the Belgian field troops to retire ; 

 they fell back with the loss of their 

 rear-guard ; and the Germans pene- 

 trated into the town of Namur, 

 part of which they burnt, at the 

 same time murdering 75 civilians. 

 On Aug. 25 the last forts suc- 



Namur, Belgium. Citadel and bridge over the Meuse, from the suburb of 

 Jambes. Above, west front of the cathedral of S. Aubain 



manoeuvre in their attempt to out- 

 flank the Germans in Belgium. Its 

 ring of 9 armoured forts, mounted 

 350 guns, of the type which at 

 Liege had failed to resist the heavy 

 German artillery. The Belgian 

 troops in Namur consisted of the 

 4th division, 8th brigade, and garri- 

 son units, totalling 30,000 men, 

 with part of Lanrezac's 5th French 

 army close at hand, to the S. 



On Aug. 19, 1914, troops of the 

 2nd German army (Bulow) ap- 

 peared near the forts and prepared 

 positions for the heavy German and 

 Austrian howitzers. Gen. Gallwitz 

 took command of the besieging 

 force, which was strengthened by 

 troops and heavy artillery from the 

 3rd German army (Hausen). On 

 Aug. 21 a very violent bombard- 

 ment of the three eastern forts, 

 Andoy, Maizeret, and Marchove- 



cumbed. The German loss was 

 about 12,000 men, and the Allied 

 loss was quite as heavy. See 

 Belgium ; Fortress. 



Nanaimo. Town and port on 

 Vancouver Island, Canada. Situ- 

 ated 73 m. from Victoria, it is a 

 station on a branch of the C.P.R. 

 with a good harbour, whence 

 steamers go to Vancouver, Victoria, 

 and elsewhere. There are saw mills 

 and brickyards, and fishing and fish 

 curing are carried on. Coal is found 

 in the neighbourhood and exported. 

 The town originated as a post of the 

 Hudson Bay Co. Pop. 8,300. 



Nana Sahib (ft. 1857). Leader 

 in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58. A 

 Maratha Brahmin, Dundhu Panth 

 by name, he was born about 1821 

 and was the adopted son of the last 

 peshwa Baji Rao. Incensed at the 

 British refusal to continue the 



