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for widening Piccadilly near St. James itre'et the London County Council paid; £334~ a equate foot. The cruiser Pyramus is refitting, and will; complete her crew shortly for service on Ihe Australian station. — : August 24. i Advices from Buenos Ayres state that' the British barque Bridstnn Hill, bounds from Hamburg for San Francisco,^ foundered in the South Atlantic Ocean.; - 3?he-second officer and 17 of the crew; were, drowned. The survivors are expected! to arrive>'at Buenos Ayres. - ; ' TThe Bidstdn^Hill was a four-masted iron 1 barque, of 2519 tons gross ; register, and' she -was-built in 18S6 by Messrs T. -Royden. .*nd BonS; at 'Liverpool. : The vessel ' ,'ownedlby the Sailing^ Ship "-'Bidston Hill - - -Company. She was 301 ft inMength, 42ft iri breadth, 2+ft in depth.] t The Morning Post says: "Undoubtedly' Ihe Motherland's general sympathy is with.' - the idea of the 'Federal supervision of the Btates' liabilities" and the non-borrowing; policy favoured by the Federal Labour party. ._ Not- for many years have the Aus- - traliair prospects been 60' promfeingV < "'" ' Indian teas for the 1905 season are the " -finest there have been for 10 years. Thirty "' per-'cent, of-the sales were at an average _ price of Is. per Ib". -Mr Chamberlain, itftie course of a letter, "declares^tliat it" is foolish, and inimical, to the* national interests, to encourage th& pfficering. of British ships by foreigners. ■ &.*he. whole subject of manning the mercan- " tile marine, demands reconsideration. _V August 25. The -British Consul at Bremenhaven , r reports that Germany spends £20,000 annually' to encourage sea fishery and trade, with 4 the secondary object of obtaining Bailors for the navy. '. . The Salvation Army sent 4000 people to Canada this year, and expects to eend 10,000 next year.- . • Mr Alexander Joyce, in a letter to Th« Times in reply to Sr Arthur Douglas's letter to The Times, argues that New Zealand harbours are practically defenceless. Preparations are progressing to establish % Eoyal Academy of South Africa, with 24 academicians and 18 associates. The academy is to be affiliated to Berlington House," witH Six* William Bichmond as

president and headquarters at Johannesburg. The Liberals of West Birmingham have selected Mr Outhwaite to oppose M*r Chamberlain. The Daily Telegraph says Australian officials in London are perturbed at the Victorian Premier supporting a private bill to compel recipients of pensions to reside in Victoria. It is feared other States will imitate this if the bill is passed. ' Le Mays estimates that the English hop crop is one of the best ever marketed, and ■that there will be no need to import any l hops. August 26. -- Mr Cogtilan", the Few South Wales Agent-general, has handed to the Colonial •Office Messrs Burns, -Philp, and Co.'s, ■amended claim in connection with the Mar,shall t Islands, totalling £17,500, including £7500 for loss of trading this year until Ist October. He urged the immediate settlement of the matter, and suggested reference to The Hague Tribunal for arbitra- 1 'tion in the event of Germany not entertaining the claim as rendered. August 27. Several ladies who were visiting Canterbury Cathedral without head covering were' excluded for disregarding the usual reverent custom. The movement, which is supported by the English Church Union, has provoked a long correspondence in the' newspapers. PARIS, August 22. M. Santos Dumont made a successful trial in his new airship at Trouville. The ship carries a screw in front, and is drawn by a motor instead of being driven. It was manoeuvred with facility both with and against the wind. Gallay, a clerk in the Comptoir-des-Corapte in this city has absconded, taking £100,000 with him. He left Havre aboard his own yacht. August 23. A wine trust is proposed among the six principal producing provinces in the South of -France. The initial capital will be 300,000,000 francs (about £12,000,000). August 25. Th& absconding bank clerk Galley has been arrested at Bahia. August 26. The sum of £24,000 has been recovared from Gallay, the bank clerk who ab&conded taking £100,000 with him. BERLIN, August 22. Germany is sending 150 marines, several quick-firers, and two small cruisers to West Africa.

Since January the Berlin authorities have allowed the Salvationists to march through the streets. Twenty thousand attended a meeting on- the Templehofer Parade Ground. August 24. Germany proposes to raise an additional £5,000,000 from tobacco. The sum of £3,000,000 will be devoted largely to expenditure^ pn the navy. August 25. Indignation meetings are spreading through Germany in connection with the meat famine. The people demand tbe admission of foreign meat. STOCKHOLM, August 25. It is announced here that when the union between Norway and Sweden is dissolved King Oscar will not oppose his son Charles's acceptance of the Norwegian throne. VIENNA, August 25. I The Austrian Crown Council of Ministers . has decided that no orders of command will be given to the Hungarian soldiers in the Magyar tongue. The feeling between Austria and Hungary is intensely incensed. ROME, August 26. The newspaper Tribune announces that the Pope is about to negotiate for the institution of a delegation at Tokio and a nunciature at Pekin instead of relying on the Prench protectorate. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. The Russians are buying silver largely, owing to the removal of the import duty. August 27. A Russian Navy League is in course of formation. SOFIA, August 22. A mixed band of Turks and Greeks, all in Turkish uniform, murdered 17 Bulgarians and kidnapped four others at Klaiderap, near Fiorina. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 21. A plot has been discovered in Smyrna to blow up the Government Buildings, Consulates, and foreign shipping. One hundred and fifty Armenians were arrested. CAIRO, August 25. A heavy rainstorm destroyed one mile and a-half of the Soudan railway. WASHINGTON, August 27.. President Roosevelt was three and a-half hours in the sxibmarine Plunger, resting at , the bottom of Long Island Sound, at a. j depth of 40ft. A storm was raging above, but was unnoticed by the party. NEW YORK, August 25. _ The yellow fever outbreak is spreading in New drleansj, The. medical authorities

believe there are 1000 cases in Louisiana. It is not likely they will be able to stamp it out till the weather is colder. Mr Pierpont Morgan has secured the dismissal of Mr Elwell. curator at the Art Museum, New York, for consigningto the lumber room a bronze statue of Caius Vibius Gaulus, on the ground that it was worthless, though it cost Morgan £10,000. The newspapers condemn Morgan for using his influence to enforce the acceptance of a questionable article. August 26. It is estimated that four million sterling : was lost at Saratoga this season, whereof three million was gambled on the racecourse, August 27. The Marlborough Hill, a four-masted barque, loading oil at New York for Sydney, was struck by lightning yesterday and set on fire. It is hoped to save the hull. OTTAWA, August 21. The Maritime Board of Trade of the three eastern provinces of Canada has resolved to memoralise the Dominion Government to secure the confederation of the British West Indies with Canada. CARACAS, August 22. Venezuela has ordered from Europe fire millions sterling worth of torpedoes, guns, and ammunition. CAPETOWN, August 22. The Basuto chief Lerothodi is dead. DURBAN, August 23. The members of the British Association were feted here. HONGKONG, August 28. The bakers at Hongkong and Canton have refused to handle American flour. American trade in China is paralysed.