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unnecessary slaughter, and protests against ruthless exter- 
mination.” 
Wild Birds Protection Order. — We have received from 
the Home Office an Order, dated February 28, applying to the 
county of Leicester, repeating the Order of January 25, 1900, 
protecting the Kingfisher and the Goldfinch all the year round, 
adding the Flycatchers, Swallows, Wagtails, &c., to the 
Schedule of the Act of 1880, and protecting the eggs of numerous 
species for the next five years. 
Regul.\ting Advertisements. — Lord Balfour of Burleigh, 
introduced an “Advertisements Regulation Bill” into the House 
of Lords on February 24, which was read a second time on 
March 9. It empowers local authorities to make bye-laws to 
regulate, restrict, or prevent advertising by dazzling light, by 
scattering papers, by hoardings above a certain height, or in such 
a way as to injure the amenities of a pleasure resort, or disfigure 
the natural beauty of a landscape. We need hardly say that 
we are in full sympathy with this proposal, and hope that it may 
be successfully carried in its integrity through its further parlia- 
mentary stages. 
The Towing-path at Richmond. — A strong feeling of 
disapproval has been aroused in Richmond and the neighbour- 
hood by the proposal by the Office of Works to carry an iron 
railing along the Thames towing-path for about a mile and a 
half between Richmond railway-bridge and the south-western 
corner of Kew Gardens, opposite Iron House. The path is at 
present separated from the old Deer Park by a small stream, 
known as the Ha-ha, the bank of which is prettily wooded and 
which has some wooded islands in it. The iron railing would 
exclude the public from the outer bank and the effect, it 
is contended, would be to destroy the present rusticity of the 
place, without any compensating advantage. At the last meeting 
of the Richmond Town Council a paragraph of a committee’s 
report, in which the intention of the Department was first made 
public, and which expressed approval of it, was struck out, and 
since then much indignation has been expressed that such a 
thing should be contemplated. — Times. 
Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill. — It is a singularly happy 
thought to associate the name of John Ruskin, one of the 
apostles of the truest Nature-study, with a new and valuable 
open space for South London in the immediate neighbourhood 
of the home of his youth and early manhood. It is hoped that 
twenty-four acres of the beautifully timbered high ground on the 
slope of Denmark Hill may be secured at ;^2,ooo per acre. The 
Camberwell Borough Council has voted ;^io,ooo and the 
Lambeth Council ;^5,8oo, while ;^4,3oo has been subscribed 
privately ; but, in addition to further help which may be antici- 
