18 FEBRUARY 1905, Page 16

Ws acknowledge the following contributions to the above Fund received

since our last issue, and have forwarded them to the County Gentteman :— Miss Alice E. Busk E2 2 01 Thomas Prichard 80 5 0 Among those who have recently consented to become patrons of the Cheap Cottages Exhibition are :—The Earl of Gains- borough ; the Bishop of Ripon ; the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P.; the RL Hon. James Bryce, M.P.; Col. Le Boy-Lewis, D.S.O. ; H. L. Story, Esq., High Sheriff of Lancashire ; and S. S. Stephens, Esq., High Sheriff of Devon. Mr. E. 0. Fordham has been elected a member of the Organising Committee. The donations received up to February 16th amount to £652.

We are asked by the "County Gentleman" to state that Mr. Wilbraham V. Cooper has been appointed organising secretary of the Exhibition, and that all inquiries in regard to the Cheap Cottages Exhibition made by Builders and others who propose to exhibit should be addressed to the Secretary, Cheap Cottages Exhi- bition, 347 Birkbeck Bank Chambers, Holborn, W.C.