Related article: skill. The late Mr. F. T. WUson.— In addition to the late Mr. C. P. Shrubb, Mr. F. T. Wilson the master of the Ledbury Hounds, must be included in the list of masters who have, so to speak, died in harness. Mr. Wilson gained his first experiences of mastership with the Wool hope Harriers. He then took the Herefordshire country in 1896 in succession to the Committee, who ruled after the departure of Mr. F. Vaughan Williams. He held the Herefordshire country for a single season only, and it was with much regret that his fol- lowers heard of his departure for the Ledbury country, which had just been vacated by Mr. George Thursby, whom he succeeded in 1897. He kept a fine stud of horses, and did the hunt well in every respect, which his means enabled him to do. Last year his health broke down, and he had to leave first of all for Hastings, and then for the Continent, bai consumption had unfortunately marked him for its own. He was to retire from the Ledbury at the end of this season, but he may be said to have died before his term of office had completely run its course, and his death will be much lamented by a wide circle of friends. The Thames as a Troot and Salmon River. — The question of stocking the Thames with salmon is still attracting a good deal of attention, and Mr. R. B. Marston, whose views are well known on the subject, has written an article in 1899 " OUR VAN. »» 393 the Nineteenth Century in which all the facts and arguments bearing upon the matter are plainly and impartially set forth, and it may be interesting to our readers to state that probably the last Thames salmon to be killed with rod and line was caught at Shepperton on single gut atid without a landing net. The fish weighed 21 1 lbs. Curiously enough about the same time as Mr. Marston's article appeared another was published in the columns of Blackwood* s Magazim, entitled ** The Thames as a Game Fish River,*' which, going beyond the Ipratropium Bromide Price salmon question, advocates the erection of hatch- eries on the river bank, and the practical conversion of the Thames ultimately into a trouting water. The Piscatorial Society.— At the annual dinner, recently held at the Holborn Restaurant, the chairman (Mr. C. Butler), an- nounced that the Society had just acquired the lease of some new water at Uxbridge on the Colne, and he hoped that the Committee would be able to re-stock the water (which contains the usual variety of coarse fish), with some good trout for the benefit of fly- fishing members. The Museum has acquired a 13 lb. 14 oz. trout, once the property of the late Mr. Ross Faulkner, and believed to Buy Ipratropium Bromide be the heaviest existing specimen of a Thames trout. Prominent amongst the members at this dinner was Dr. John Brunton, a well known fly fisherman, and a familiar figure at the meetings of the Piscatorial and Gresham Angling Societies. He had not been very well for some time, but it came as a great shock to his brother anglers, when it became known that he had died on the Saturday following the above-mentioned festivity. Golf. — The Golf Committee of the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews has completed the revision of the rules, and sub- mitted the results to the club and the golfing community generally. As the committee says in a memo- randum, it confined its attention mainly to codification and to such recasting of phraseology as might tend to make the rules clearer and, therefore, easier of interpre- tation ; but while that is so, the new code shows that the commit- tee has not hesitated to make one or two important alterations. For instance, it is proposed that per- mission shall be given to have an opponent's ball lifted if it lie within a club-length of the player's ball through the green and inter- fere with his stroke. This is a distinct improvement, for very often the proximity of the oppon- ent's ball through the green not only interferes with the player's aim, but results in his striking both balls, and so incurring an un- deserved penalty. Another altera- tion debars a player under penalty of one stroke from playing at the hole from within a distance of 20 yards if the flag has not been removed. The practical advantage of this is not quite so obvious, and at the best it is to be feared that its application will be attended with a good deal of wrangling, with its inevitable consequence of delay and hindrance on the putting green. It would probably help matters if the committee or the club, when it adopts the revised rules, were to indicate in some way the best method of working out the new arrangement. Another alteration, and one which has been received with general ap- proval, is to the effect that the player who strikes his ball twice shall not Ipratropium Bromide Cost lose the hole as at present, but merely be penalised to the extent of one stroke. Striking the ball twice is a very common incident, especially on 394 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [BlAT heavy inland greens, and it has long been recognised that the loss of the hole is much too severe punishment. An alteration of local significance to St. Andrews provides that the penalty for driving into the station-master's garden or over the neighboiiring wall shall for the future be simply the loss of the distance. This alteration cuts very effectually the knot which golfing authorities have been trying hard to loosen duriz»g the past two or three months. Sporting Intelligence. [Daring March— April, 1899.] Captain Bewick's General Peace (5 y«., 7st. 31b.), winner of the Lincolnshire Han- dicap on March 21st, covered the course (run over one mile) in I rain. 41^ sees., and the stakes amounted to ;f 1,440. In