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the energetic management ; but with such men and women on 

 the Committee as Mrs. and Mr. Forbes, Mrs. and Mr. Hugh 

 Llewhellyn, Mr. Gwatkin Williams, Mr. Bob Lockhart, Mr. 

 Nixon, Mr. McLeod, Mr. E. A. Mackintosh, Mr. Boileau, 

 the active Adjutant of the Behar Light Horse, and Mr. Harry 

 Stuart, ubiquitous with the subscription book, success was a 

 foregone conclusion. Quite the most socially pleasant people 

 were got together, and the 5ist K.O.L.I. sent a show detach- 

 ment of sportsmen who supported the meeting in a manner 

 quite in accordance with the traditions of the Regiment, 

 the 6th B. C. provided two guests in Colonel Upperton and 

 Mr. Thompson, and Goruckpore was ably represented by 

 Mr. King of Beoree Factory. 



" Proceedings commenced on the night of Thursday, the 

 3Oth October, with well attended and signally well supported 

 lotteries, and the next morning saw a concourse of fair 

 women and brave men on the race course. Full details of 

 the racing will be found below. The day was devoted to 

 making calls, and a handicap for a lawn tennis tournament 

 which has been played off daily throughout the week and 

 ended in a well fought victory for Mr. Lee of the Civil 

 Service in the single, and again Mr. Lee aided by Miss Ayers 

 in the double match. Friday evening saw a polo match, 

 Planters versus The World, which ended in a draw, each side 

 scoring three, goals, and the same night the ball room was 

 filled just sufficiently to admit of uncrowded dancing to the 

 strains of the band kindly lent for the occasion by H.H. the 

 Maharajah of Durbangah. Satiety in the mazy waltz is an 

 impossibilty, and the -balls came off nightly with an .overture 

 on Tuesday in the shape of that sparkling farce ' The Area 

 Belle,' in which Mrs. Joll, assisted by that bright particular star 

 of the Bengal Police, Mr. Fasson and Mr. Hederstedt from 

 Bankipore, stage managed by that specialist Mr. Joll, brought 

 down on themselves thunders of applause from an appre-, 



