Hector Macdonald National Memorial.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1839, 16 June 1903, Page 5

Hector Macdonald National Memorial.

158 Ingram Street, Glasgow, April 30, 1903. THE EDITOR CROMWELL ARGUS. Sia, —At an enthusiastic pullic meeting held in Glasgow on Bth inst. an influential committee representative of the Highland, County, Chn and Kindred Societies in the city was formed for the purpose of raising funds roivards the erection of a National Memorial in Scotland to conmeoiorats the brilliant mil ttry achievement and the many gallant services to his count*y ot the lamented General Sir Hector A. Macdonald, K.C.8., 0.5.0., A.D.O.

Dis-trict eonvuittees have since been formed in other pait-i of Scotland with he same object and tbev are co-opera-tiDg with the Glasgow Committee.

Tae nature of the memorial will de« pend upon the amount raised. We in Scotland are meeting with a generous response to our appeal, but we are con vinced that far from it being irerely a local effort, there are many thousands of oar country men 1a the colonies and •n Foreign JUnds who will delight to have an upportunity-of caking a pait in the movement, and that wherever Scotsmen are to be found their sym. pat by and their aid will b) assured.

To this end my committee will be deeply grateful if yoi can kindly Bee your way to publish in your valuable coiums this information and appeal. There will probably in every district be found B3me who will undertake t> «hth*r subscriptions from likely source*. All these subscriptions and individual donations will be gladly ieoivel either by me or by the honorary treasurer. Mr John Macdonald, 4 diitin Plac?, Glasgow, or may ba sect to «nv offio in Sco'.land of t'ie Clydesdale

Pacolett mils and other anil tnvns. The War Department st At'antt (Georg a) has despatched rations and medicines. A steamer rescued 200 from the housetops et Fifteen men whoo trying to strengthen a wall near Madison were drowned. <\ group of cities on the east side of the Mississippi, northwest of St. Louis, are 10 to 18 feet uniler water. Seven hundred people anient the night on the housetops, and were rescued by boats. Riilway traffic ia tbe flooded dis'rlcts is The showers which have fa'len have diminished the danger of forest fire* in Canada, which are now confined to the three ctuattes bordering the Si Lawrence. Many women heroically aided in fLhting the flames. Several towns were completely isolated for days, owing to the suspension of tbe railways and tbe destructin of the telegraph lines. Biilin advices state th*t the report that the Guass had communic ted w th the Discovery expedition is incorrect. Inability t> penetrate the icepack the Guass from winteriug b I>* 66a0,'. Sledging parties discotered land, bnc the ice broke in Febraa y, liberat : ng tbe Guass. The placed fongade3 outside the Zdnaga ramparts These exp'oded on, kLliag many Fisjuigians when they were trying to repair a breach in the minan-t of a mo que, round which many had taken refuge. The rout was complete.

The bombardment t Trifled the Fluuigians, killing 300. They offered s ibmission, bu the French General claims tbe surrender of the assassins and robbers concerned in the recent a'tack on the French Governor-general's party and the exp9ns B of tho expedition.

Dr Sachs, a young a.U3trian bicieriolog'ut, died in Beilin from pligue, contract?d by the inoculation of himself with plajue bacil i at Dr Koch's laboratory. Dr Sachs's attendant has now been attacked by the disease, In the course ot his speech, Lord Tennyson said th t tbe Governor* General's salary and allowances were sutficiesitt) euatd-i him to main ain the di~n t? of his high position andt) fulfil without o;tontatiorj, his public and s.cial obligations, Thiough a boiler explosion on tho cruiser Good Hope, (the vessel which conveyed the Right Hon. Mr J. Chimberlain to South Africa), the engineer and six of the crew were seiiou3ly injured. A fire in Peking det-oyad the bu ldings occupied by tbe Bonds of Revenue and Rites. The formor ontained four million tiels.

Tie 'Times' Peking correspondent states tnat Russia; Germany, Francs, and Be'giutu are ac'ively obtaining railway concessions in North Cirna, while Great Britain's po3itioa is materially worse than ever. Even the Peking Syndicate has been denied an outlet to the Yangze>kiaog for t'ie S'oansi coal concessions.

One hundred and twenty-three persons p9rished through the co'lision of th 3 Liban with the Insuhire, off Marseilles.

Amongst the wreckage washed ashore at Poit Stephens were large quantities of peanu's, which had evidently formed portion of the cargo of some vessel. The Mississippi floods are falliug, and the c'ty of St. Louis is safe. A tragedy has occurred at Blairgowrie Stetioo, in the Barcaldine district. Mr Tuckerman, owner of Blairgowrie, vis-tad Barcaldine. After driokin g heavily he returned home on Thursday. Subsequently Mcs Tuckerman was found to have been murdered with a crowbar. Tuckerman wae discovered wandering in the bush, naked, and raving mad. M, de W t e (Russian Miuist6r of Finance) warns French investors not ti support Germany's Bagdad railway scheme, predicting that if it will never be fioished, besides ita being ant : - Russtan.

Cardinal Kopan's pastoral letter, read in the churches at Breelau, created a sensation. It warned eltctors against the Socialists and Poles, and directed them to vote for tho Catholics on the puint of the deprivation of the churchea privileges.' Gabrielle Bampard, who in 1891 was aentencedjto 20 years' imprisonment for participation ia the murder of a process server named Toussiant Goufle at Pari 3 , has been pardoned. Bompard was the mistress of Michel Eyraud. The pair inveigled Gouffe to their rooms and there murdered him, Bompard confessed aftar a eensatlocal trial Eyraud was sentence 1 to death and executed.

Patrick Knswlep, aged 10 years, a ma'ch-se'.ler, has been remanded at Stockfcon-onsTees oa a charge of decoy*a fifteonsmont'is->old