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to her which the Princess has pleasure in accepting."

4th July, l893.

The Rajah presented an Ivory Casket to the Queen-Empress and subscribed 100 guineas to St. Mary's Hospital Fund. He and his brother attended the "At Homes" of the Duke of Westminster, the Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Battersea, Lady Henry Lennox, and the Marchioness of Ripon, the Countess of Jersey, and also Lady Temple's Garden Party and the Anniversary Fete at the Crystal Palace.

He visited Lord Kimberley, Secretary of State for India, Lord Connemara, Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Lord Herschell, Lord Northbrook, Lord Reay, and some others.

During his sojourn in England, the Rajah visited Brighton, Oxford, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Bedford. On his way back he visited Paris, Lucerne, Venice, Florence and Rome.