NEWS AMD NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 4 October 1902, Page 12 (Supplement)

NEWS AMD NOTES.

The Burns Cottage Association of America has decided that a replica pf the "auld clay biggin' " in which Burns was born will require the aid of a statelier monument of Scottish history to properly equip the Scottish corner of the World's Fair, St. Louis, site. This needed addition is to be a replica 'of Stirling Castle. The Manchester School of Technology was to be opened shortly after the last English mail loft The school, when completed, will have cost £300,000. It is largest of its kind in the kingdom. In Singapore the police have discovered an association of persons who banded together for the purpose of beating any one whom they might be hired to assault, or oi>y persons who offended any of their number. A Birmingham company has received an order for 60,000 ornamental street nameplates for the Corporation of New York. Four hundred and eighty-one miles in 460 minutes is the new record made on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern by the Twentieth Century Limited Ex press. General Besozzi, commanding the Rome garrison, has retired eighteen ofHcers because they wore stand-up collars with their uniform, the regulations not providing for such articles being worn. The Globe understands that Lord Raglan has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Man. Lord Raglan, since 1900, has been Under-Secretary of State for War. He is the grandson of the famous Crimean commander, and succeeded his father, the second Baron, in 1884. He is 45 years old. M. Loubet, the French President, has had a number of requests from Russia to be the godfather of infants born at the time of his visit, and he has readily consented, presenting in each case a small cross in gold and enamel, with a- gold chain. Great preparations are being made for the Russian military manoeuvres which are to take place shortly at Kursk. Eighty special trains will be required to convey the troops from the north, and forty for those from the south. A great influx oi visitors from all parts of Europe is expected. A press telegram from Toronto, Canada, on 14th August stated that the greatest satisfaction was felt among Canadian manufacturers at the Governments action in signing a five-year contract with a syndicate of steamship owners for a regular cargo service between Canada and South African ports. It was expected that the first boat, which is to sail in October, will be crowded with merchandise. Manufacturers were doing a big trade in refrigerator equipment, so as to enable, large shipments ' of agricultural products to be made. The Secretary for War has decided that the futufe maximum limit of age for candidates for the Army entrance examinations shall be 19, instead of 18, at the Woolwich Academy, and 19i, inBtead of .19, at Sandhurst College. Nearly 500 Italian navvies are at work day and night on barrack and batteries on Mont Chaberton, on the Alpine frontier, but (writes The Times) the time is happily past when France could feel uneasiness at such activity. M. Nocard, professor of the veterinary school at Alfbrt, in France, endorses the opinion of Dr. Koch, the eminent authority on tuberculosis, as to the worthlefSsness of the tuberculosis experiments o* Dr. Garnault. He disagrees, however, with Dr. Koch as to the transmissibility of tuberculosis by milk. 'Che Mullah Sayad Akbar was in Aug\\h* instigating the Orakzai, Malakhel, •AI thtis, Sheik Khan, and Aba-khel tribes to raid British territory. Sayad Akbar 'aßserls tint their reward will be salvation. ,ii r' T. R. Price, general manager of .111 C.'.oe Government railways, has»been .tppbiuted general manager of the Central .Smith African — that is, the Transvaal and Onnige River Colony — railways. Mr. Prico \t on distinction for his management of the war traffic, and has considerable Transvaal experience, as he was formerly C:tpe railway agent in Johannesburg. The natives of Bailundu (Portuguese East Africa) Were on 12th August in a state of revolt. They were surrounded oy three" columns of troops, and no doubt was entertained of the latter/s ability to put down the rising. A deputation waited upon the Johannesburg Town Couucil on 7th August, on the subject of the housing of the people, and pointed out some of the difficulties and hardships arising from the present scarcity of house accommodation and the impossibility of meeting the demand. The subject Wms discussed at length in tli6 Council, and ib was resolved to apply for assistance to the Government. Messrs". Morgan ' and Jonkin, the British trade commissioners in South Africa, in an inteiview with Reuter's representative, stated that they had information regarding British trade in South Africa which would arouse an unusual amount of interest and surprise. Ths situation, they said, was more serious than ibeas generally supposed, and its gravity mas augmented by the existence of monopolies and trusts, which threatened to bar! the development of the country. They (will give indications in their reports of the branches of trade which may be most profitably engaged in. Arrangements have been in progress for a long time past; and are now rapidly approaching* completion, for the holding of v large- and important indus ■ trial exhibition in 1904 near Johannesburg, in the most central position in the whole of British South Africa, -iear the junction of all the railways from the ports of Capetown, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, and Delag^a Bay, The brigand Loinbardo, Italy's most famous criminal since the capture of Musolino, was the other ' day surrounded by a body of troops and killed after a long ' fight. Sitting at Strasburg aya v German courtmar tidl has convicted a sergeant who compelled a recruit to s.trip and lie on a hot stove. The soldier was shockingly burned. Mr. Stafford C. Talbot arrived in Russia in August in order (says the Daily Mail) to effect the organisation in that country and in England of «n immense agency for facilitating the importation to England of Russian agricultural products and the importation to Russia- of machinery and manufactured products ■from England. The inhabitants of the Russian village of Kameliki some weeks ago having caught a horse thief, proceeded to beat him with heavy sticks, and prodded him with hayforks, while the youngsters of the village bombarded him with stones. Not being dead then, he was hanged by his feet. A fine business instinct has seized the South African military authorities. In order to push the sale of their surplus horses they announce in the Mafeking Mail that " all purchasers of horses -at the price or average price of £25 or over will receive an order from the sales officer on the nearest depot for a free issue of seven days' forage (grain or hay) for ear-h animal." On the middle stream of the Amur, in Ea«t Siberia, at the Cosack village of Tuno Kentinvo, a very interesting archaeological find has come to light, recent rains having caused very heavy floods in the river, these laid bare an "old warrior burial ground. Most of the skeletons were wrapped in curious chain armour. Sword hilts of bronze and. iron battle axes were also found. It is supposed that they are the remains of an ancient Tartar horde. At Kaswin, in Persia, the Russian Government- Vas onened a Russian -.Miool