BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, August 17.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, August 17.

Commenting on the difficulty of dealing ■with race problems, The Times urges the tsxercise of patience, sympathy, and forbearance between Great Britain and her autonomous colonies. It believes that Australia will not be backward in following Canada's splendid example, which ought to reconcile Imperial and local interests. August 18. Negotiations are afoot for making the colonial exhibits at the Shepherd's Bush Exhibition the basis of a British Empire Exhibition. Canada and all the Commisgiojoers favour the project, because the present show is considered highly beneficial.- . As a result of the north-east coast engineers*' .ballot, the executive is approaching the employers to settle upon terms, which will be the subject of a ' tether ballot. , I Dr Clifford will preside ovef the Euro- ' pean Baptists' Congress at Berlin on '' August 31. Great Britain is sending over 500 delegates. | After swimming -for many hours Burgees got within p. mile of Gris-Nez, when an Ad-fers^ tide "oomp-elle-d" oomp-elle-d him to abandon i}»9 attempt. Mr E"arJ6, the neAvly-appointed Assist43it Undor-eecretary for Ireland, was ttrrown from a jaunting-car in Dublin, and *ili«£l. For four days a bloodhound tracked the murderer of Madge Kirby, a little girl, ■whose body was found in tlie cellar of an empty house in Liverpool. The dog finally ■gave up the scent at the railway platform; hence it is believed that the murderer left the city last night by an excursion train" for Birmingham. Tlie Spectator says that it is most iumiliating for the* State to have to wheedle, cajole, and beg employers to allow their men to join the Territorials. The paper again urges the adoption of a. scheme of universal training. August 20. The Times' Capetown correspondent states that Parliament has been asked to sanction t-he adoption rf strong measures to sa"feguajid the colony'fe cattle from the east coaet fever. Th© Times learns that a South American company has sold to three American beef companies at j>. hiigf price 3200 quarters of Argentine chilled beef aboard the Highland Harris, which is due at ! laperpool to-day. The Americans them- [

selves have a large shipment on the same vefsel. August 21. Mr Livermore, a cotton operator, sold, owing to more propitious weather, 200,000 bales of cotton in New York, Liverpool, and New Orleans yesterday. The day's loss was £180,000. The New Zealand Shipping Company has ordered at Dumbarton a longer and Jiner sister ship to the Otaki. The Imperial Colonial Club opened its new premises in Piccadilly with a membership of 3000. I At the Brewers' Exhibition on the 17th of October offers are made of diplomas in six classes of wine and one of brandy. The competition will be open to products of colonial-grown grapes bottled in the country of origin: Entries close on October .3. ! The Hoiu R. Lister, Councillor to the British Embassy, Paris, succeeds Sir G. A. Lowther as Ambassador at Tangier. I The Manchester cotton -spinners propose I to reduce wages 5 per cent., or to lock 1 out if the proposal is declined. ! What is designated "The True Temperance Association " has been started. It ! I aims on a large scale at reform of the ' publichouses. \ Mr Balfour and Mr Austen Chamberlain support the new movement ' August 23. ! Under the Small Holdings Act there were 19,000 applicants in the first half of j 1908. involving an area, of 300,000 acres. Of 17 land schemes submitted from , county councils 13 were approved. j Burgess again failed in his attempt to swim the English Channel. He got to within a mile and a-half of Gravelines after being in the water for 22 hours. BRUSSELS, August 21. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies, by 83 votes to 54, voted (? vetoed) the treaty for the annexation of the Congo, and also the law wheic-by the colony may be administered. BERLIN, August 19. A. N Wills cycled 99 kilometres in an hour at Munich, thus establishing a recoiS. VIEV2CA, August 20. Tho Vienna Cabinet, in reply to a Russian note, agrees as tG the wisdom of ; temporarily withdrawing the reform i scheme regarding Macedonia, events in j Turkey tending in the direction of the main objects of the policy of the Powers. ST, PETERSBURG. August 19. j The renovation and reissue of used stamps has defrauded the postal authori- j ties of Moscow alone of £500,000. I

' Thirty persons, - including a postal official, have been arrested. August 24. One thousand and forty-five cases of cholera, including 517 deaths, occurred ia , Russia during the week ended the 20th inst.-, and 2024 cases, including 1900 deaths, since. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 21. The new Turkish Government has proj raised to equitably settle the Persian frontier dispute. August 24. A fire has broken out in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople, and was ©till unextinguished last night. Fifteen hundred shops have been destroyed. CAIRO, August 18. A band of ruffians armed with bludgeons attacked two tramcars in the streets at midnight. They wounded and robbed many passengers. NEW YORK, August 20. Admiral Evans (late commander of the American fleet on its voyage to San Francisco), in accepting a loving cup from his friends, urged that the proper standard j for the American navy would be 16 battleI ships commissioned for the Pacific, and 16 I for the Atlantic, besides eight more in each ocean to be held in reserve. l The New York World supports Mr I Bryan, and ctescribes the .issue as one of Democracy v Plutocracy. August 23. Mr John Gates, a Washington millionaire, is constructing a golf couree, raoej course, and concrete automobile track at a, ! cost of over £1,000,000. SAN FRANCISCO, August 21. Forest fires are sweeping along the Yo6ej mite Valley, and threaten the giant redwoods. CALCUTTA, August 18. Ettheraj Surendranath Arya has been sentenced to five years' transportation foxmaking seditious speeches at Madras. ■*