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GIST OF THE CABLES
Mr. Keir" Hardie left Colombo on
Tuesday for New Zealand.
The death is announced of Baroness
Adolphe Rothschild
The steamer Swanley left Burban for
China on Monday with 2000 Chinese
coolies from the Band mines, on board.
.Dr. Moneure Daniel Conway, former-
ly a celebrated American Unitarian
clergyman, died on Monday aged 75
years. - '
-Two'.moré gunboats,, making four in
all, . have -been burned in the Russian
shipbuilding yards in the Baltic. In-
cendiarism is suspected.
i1 Advices from Shanghai state that
four American warships are patrolling
the "coast, of Che-Kiang, a province in
the south-east of China, in readiness
for any anti-foreign outbreak.
"Owing io a shrinkage of orders,
Krupp's iron and steel works at Es-
sen, in- Prussia, are making sweeping
reductions in the number of hands em-
ployed.
- Beuter's Agency states that an Im-
perial irade has been issued, ordering
the electric lighting of the sanctuary
of the Prophet Mahomet, at Medina,
in Arabia.
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The "Times" anticipates that 'pro-
vision for the eighth battleship of the
- Dreadnought type will be included in
I-ord Tweedmouth's next naval esti-
mates. . 1
Two men were accidentally killed at
Jisbon, the capital of Portugal, while
manufacturing explosives for criminal
purposes. - An accomplice of thc vic-
tims hasî,*een arrested. \
. john . Ayling, stepson of Mr. 'John
Morley, ; -has pleaded guilty to th»
charges óí forgery. The amount in-
volved is í £16,000," but Ayling's Habi-
lles are 4*0,000.
' . A land-slip' occurred yesterday near
Grasse^ a manufacturing town in the
sbüth-éast ;of prance. Many workmen
were/^ to tie present 15
fatalities have been reported.
; ' Their ^Majesties the King and the
(|ue^'>%ehp3rtained the Kaiser, , the
Käuferin,' the King and Queen of
Spam, 4he Queen of Portugal, and the j
.Queen of-Norwayat luncheon at Wmd
^jor/.^Öa^feoa'Mondäy.. , ^ ! '
?'. ;The - Émropeañ and native employees
fon . the - East 'Indian railway have
strack Wort, and^disoi^anisation ex-
tends frôni: Allahabad' to Calcutta^ a
Stance ;. .of 564 miles. Six thousand
passengers' are stranded at' Sassenam.t
Thfe.\Ürj|ää8 threaten to use" violence.
:'iA dozen\l undergraduates "ragged"
.-^V^e¿*^^láin, by ' pelting him
^ih>-;.i 'Jn^>sof . sugar when His;
' Hniversity of
Çarobridge\;on the Uth inst. One .of
ihe 'tí&enQérk has since been fined for
1^;^on^[ai*; <m that occasion.
iTixee hundred Japanese haye been
sent hsiek from Washington State, to
British Colombia during the past ¡sbt
tnbnths. Teli -were arrested at Bell
mgham last, Monday, and^ sent to
SeaÄfc^ *;ïo*V deportation from " the
fstite.;.- ; ,i- : . . .. '
Minister, Sir Henry
rman, is> progressing
KKt.i^nr*rmiyrJ- Vint in, view of the ap-,
proachihgf session, of 'Parliament, his
me&cal advisers ha^^opdered him to
Jtâtte -Refine}, weeks: of complefcB;. change.:
^di^jäfc v;/ .'^¿^ -....'>.*-v.: / \ < i
'Eleven . l^dred. -, (Jbnoeé store- j
J^^RXB '^ ^ tíis "iT^ansvaei í haye for-j
Warded. to the , Chinese Minister in ;
fc&don '|M:^petítáon protesting against
the, Ti^nsvaal Asiatic Registration
\-é¿i$¿ whjeh ^niposes'' de^sttratipn, " and
VyideS:i|or inspection. - They want
I- compensation, and repatriation.
Jermen^s orcUnaxy estimates in
|.;f£^e ¿6,716^00 for new warships (an
increase' of £L422,500 ïor< the" year),
«nav^á^iOOO; for new artillery; The
^<^eas^^|sh^r4HDldmg »pt«. wity pro^
vide'' the first instalment required for
thé Seon^trhction of three battleships,
one large-croiser, and two small, croi
Tbo Board of Ttade has issued a no-
tice 'that after January 1 next foreign
seamen will ;be unable to engage for
servis».: ^--British ships in European
waters'unless they have a sufficient
knowiedga of English to understand
the orders givens them on board. This
notice chiefly affects Italians, Portu-
guese, Spaniards, and Greeks.
' A miUtary court of inquiry was fceld
at' Chelsea during the week to investi-
gate allegations by Lieutenant Woods,
of the secpnd battalion of Grenadiers,
that because he was : more studious
than other officers his career had been
impeded owing to his superiors boy-
cotting him in the hope that he would
resign. . The depositions have been
forwarded to the general commanding
the district.
-Mr. James Hill, a railway magnate,
speaking ai Kansas City, admitted
the justice of punishing any corpora-
tion., offending against the Law. Befer
ring' to President Boosevelt, he declar-
ed that he, ought, to stop his denun-
ciation and wholesale proscription,
which were destroying all credit and
justice, besides injuring every business
in America.
Mr. Mervyn Macartney, an architect,
asserts that eight of the piers sup-
porting the dome of St. Paul's Cathe-'
dral have sunk, some of them over six
indies, and others less. Mr. Macart-
ney considers that the situation is not
serious, but other eminent architects
diner strongly from his view, and
urge that the strictest precautions be
taken in connection with the building.
The test case in connection . with the
claims against insurance companies,
arising out of the earthquakes that
occurred, at Kingston, in Jamaica,
last January, has resulted in a ver-
dict for the policy-holders, inasmuch
as the fire that destroyed Lower
Kingston preceded the earthquake. The
fire claims against British insurance
companies aggregated £1,500,000.
A Company of Chinese troops, in the
pay of tte Japanese Government in
the Southern part of Formosa, a Japa-
nese island off the south-east coast of
China, recently murdered 63 Japanese
policemen and civilians. Japanese in-
fantry dispersed the mutineers, who
fled into a wilderness in the island.
On the opening day of the Russian
Durna the majority of the members
sang the national anthem four times
and cheered wildly for the Czar. There
are few peasants and many priestly
members in the new House, the mem-
bers of which are more cultivated than
those of the previous Dum&v
EXCHANGE HOTEL, Pingelly, one
of the best houses along the line^
The Central Supply Stores, Central
Arcade, can supply the best Dairy-fed
Pork, which is selected by an expert.
Prettiest Sulkies in W.A., "Bedfords,"
Miller and Cleary's, Coachbuilders,
Wellington-street, Perth. Inspection
invited.
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