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HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, August 8. In the House of Commons Lord George Hamilton approved of Lord Curzon's Indian frontier policy of having well-paid tribal militias defending their respective countries, under the command of British officers. He said_the withdrawal of the regulars would result in great economy. August 9. In the House of Commons Lord George Hamilton stated that he intended to utilise all his powers and opportunities to accelerate the currency change in India, The Board of Trade returns for August show that the imports increased by £4,032,333, while the exports increased by £3,106,080, including new ships built. The Bishop of Ripon unveiled a window in Ha&lemere Church to the memory of Lord Tennyson, the late poet laureate. The battleship Sanspareil rammed and sank the barque East Lothian in the Engli&h Channel. The crew of the barque were saved, with the exception of the helmsman. The Daily News says that M. Delcasse's decoration from the Czar i& in recognition of France and Russia's paralleled policy in China. ISews has been received that a hurricane caused great damage at Saint Christophers, Leeward Islands. August 10. The British gunboat Leda, after a two hours' chase, captured a French trawler fishing three miles off Dungeness. The Leda, fired a blank cartridge as a signal to heave to, but the Frenchman disregarded it. The gunboat then opened with rifle ball cartridges. One shot cut the trawler's rigging and killed the helmsman. The captain admitted trespassing, and was heavily fined. He declared that he thought the firing meant to clear out. The Queen, in promising to open the Jubilee Convalescent Home at Bristol, stipulated that the route must include the poorest streets in the city. As a result of the extreme competition, the reports of the London omnibus companies show that the profits for 12 months are Id for 20 passengers carried. An injunction has been granted restraining a London publisher (Lane) from reproducing Lord Rosebery's speeches. These were specially reported in The Times, whose claim that the speeches were copyright was upheld. Mr R. L. Jack, the Queensland Gove"nment who is now in London, ue*s

accepted a mining appointment at j Secliuen, a province of China, where Mr Pritchard Morgan, M.P., recently secured important mining concessions. August 11. The Emperor of Germany arrives at ' Windsor on November 15. I August 12. J Miss Christina Bridge, a sister of Viceadmiral Bridge, formerly in command of the Australian station, while climbing the final glacier in the Bernese Alps, in tre Swiss canton of Valais, fell 300 ft and was killed. Miss Bridge's fall was oaused through being stung by an insect while she was standing on the edge of the glacier. Mr Chaplin, president of the local Government Board, suggests the restoration of a shilling duty on grain to assist oldage pensions. August 13. Among the attractions at the Greater Britain Exhibition at Earl's Court) are parties of native representatives of the different tribes of South Africa. A white woman, named Jewell, obtained a mafriage license and made all preparations. The proposed marriage caused a sensation, when the officiating clergyman and the managers of tie exhibition discovered that the bridegroom was Lobenguela, a Matabele chief, and one of the members of the Kaffir Kraal at the txhibition. The license was revoked. Dr Tristram, Chancellor of the Consistory Court, delivered reserved judgment in the case challenging the legality of the erection of crucifixes over the reredos, and of a tabernacle in the Church of St. Helburga-, Bishopsgate, London. The Chancellor decided that both the crucifixes and tabernacle are illegal. The hearing of the case, which is regarded as a test, lasted six days. PARIS, August 9. Colonel Marchand has been appointed Governor of French Somaliland and Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Abyssinia. August 11. French newspapers are bitterly misrepresenting the incident of the chase and capture of a French trawler by the gunboat Leda, and denounce the brutality of the British in firing at the trawler with the result that the helmsman was killed. August 12. M. Deroulede and two members of the Patriots' League have been arrested on a charge of conspiracy. M. Guerin, president of the Anti-Semitic party, who is also wanted, barricaded himself in his residence, and resists arrest. He is provided with three weeks' food supply. August 13. Fifteen members of the League of Patriots, including M. Marcel Habert, who was recently tried for treason, have been arrested at Rennes on the eve of a fresh attempt to overturn the Republic. M. Andre Buffet, representative of the Duke of Orleans in Paris, was arrested on the Belgian frontier on a charge of being implicated in M. Deroulede's conspiracy against the Republic. During Zola's trial, in July, 1898, the Government secured evidence of his plots, both old and new, and also that the Orleanists had made an unsuccessful attempt at a coup at the moment of President Faure's funeral. August 14. The Moderates deprecate the arrests as untimely, while the Radicals applaud them. BERLIN, August 7. The Duke and Duchess of Albany have arrived at Coburg to take up their resi- • dence there, in accordance with the provision attached to the acceptance of the succession to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Go'tha. August 9. The Emperor has created Count Minister ja prince in recognition •of his services at the Peace Conference. August 10. The Emperor, in the course of conversation, informed an American gentleman that a big navy was the best peace 'conference. VIENNA, August 8. Herr Wolf, a member of the* Lower House of Austria, fought a duel htre with j Herr Kczeckop, a German Liberal D-?puty !in the same Chamber. Herr Wolf was badly wounded. ROME, August 8. The visit of the King of Italy to the Paris Exhibition is contingent upon the attendance or non-attendance of the Emperor of Germany. BELGRADE, August 7. The court-martial has acquitted seven of the Radicals charged with treason in attacking ex-King Milan. MANILA, August 10. General M'Arthur drove 6000 Filipinos | \ in the vicinity of San Fernando to Angelos, ■\-Oiing nine killed anct'fcS vounded. ■ August 11. I The Filipino losses at San Fernando Zl* said to be 100 killed and 300 wounded. MADRID, August 9. The court-martial acquitted General Toral of the charge of surrendering Santi- ( ago to the Americana^

. Brussels/. August 9/ I M. P. de.Smet de Naeyer has 'promisedParliament complete "proportional repre-. sentation. BERNE, August 7* $•■ An avalanche was the cause of the accfi dent at the Schreckhorn. It carried Sir J. H. Gibbs Bergne 1000 ft, but he landed safely. BOMBAY, August 11. Beneficial rains have fallen in Bombay,; Madras, and the central provinces of India; ' where scarcity was threatened owing to _ the failure of the monsoonal rains. i CALCUTTA, August 7. The plague has reappeared here, y,r>& is also raging at Bangalore. ! NEW YORK, August 7.j An excursion steamer was leaving the wharf for Mount Desert when the main gangway plank snapped. Two hundred persons were thrown into the water, of-" whom twenty were drowned. The Russian Government's agents in the United States are arranging for a line ■ of steamers to run> in conjunction with the trans-Siberian railway. c ; _ : WASHINGTON^iiagust 9. . 1 Mr Elihu Root, the new Secretary of. War, has proclaimed a determined cam-, paign in the Philippines ilp™ November (i.e., after the rainy season is over). August 11. General Otis remains in command .of the American troops in the Philippines. ExSecretary of War Algier had recommended his supersession. , OTTAWA, August 11. Nelson, of Chicago, won the 100 kilometres amateur championship at Montreal. Goodson, of Sydney, was second, six miles behind.