BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, October 19.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, October 19.

j Lieutenant Shackleton has arranged to ' give 123 lecture?. Hi? itinerary includes , th-3 chief European cities and 30 in the United >State.<. It is estimated that he [ will addresb 200,000 people. [ Dr Martin L'kenbetg, chemical scientist. . and well known m the Swedish colony | hue. has been remanded at Bow street > en a charge of sending bombs to Hammari joholm. ! October 20. • A British expedition, under Mr Walter Goodfellow, the well-known traveller, to Dutch New Guinea, organised to commemorate the jubilee .of the Ornitholoi>ist->' Union, vi ill start to-morrow. Dr Eiik Marshall will accompany it. Mr Thorny croft's memorial ."tatue to Tennyson in Trinity College, Cambridge, ha-= been unveiled. The Billiard!- Association has granted G. Gray, the Australian boy billiardist, •record certificates for 831 off* the red and a break of 836, and has awarded him ii gold medal. A deputation from the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents waited on Captain Collin«. the Commonwealth Agent, and *ui»g.£<.ted the omis-ion of the clause from the Au<-tral.vm Act making it oompuls-ory <:i their part to woik their patents in Au-tralia. If thi- is impossible, then they | Mig^t a mutual agreement whereby the i working of a patent in one country- should , I--? accepted as eqim.dent to workin" it in ' both. Tl-" Fmnri.il Xew« declares that the New Zea'and Go\eiiTnent'.« announcement that in fulti-e it will not con-ti-utt any j i.tilna\o «Inch fire unlikc-ly to pay is j an eminently <=fr-iblt> mononnrement,' and ' finite chai-a'tsi-vtic <,{ the new .-,], ii it which i-~ api>aient in colonial administration generally. October 21 Montage Bio*, are offering piivately half a million South Au-tialian 3^ per rent, cci tifkaie.-. pajahle to bparer. which ar» exch.ing-?able into ir.-Mi-ibc-d stock with 15 \ ears' currency, j Tiie i.ss l!e pi ice i- 1001. payable on De- ' cc-mber 1. when inteie-t commences. j Mr Pieipont Morgan has pui chimed >everal of the late fieor«e Meiedith's manusciipts. which the author gave to an oH servant. I The officials in German South-West Afiica allege that there i- salting on a I lav^e scale in connection with alleged diamond di-Lovc-'ie-. ,md t!ut m<iny stone? repoited to hu\e ljp<>n found were first smuggled into the colony.

The Panama Canal Commissioners hart teited an explosive, this invention of an Englishman, wihieh is said to be cheaper and more powerful than dynamite. J Neither fire nor the blows of a sledge- ' hammer have any effect on it. It only explodes -when a special detonator if inserted. Perchlorate of ammonia and 1 nitrate of soda are among the ingredients. A factory for its manufacture is being ■elected on tine isthmus. } October 22. ! Chili hais decided to build a 20,000-ton battles-hip, also ocean destroyers and several submarines, expending altogether £4.000.000. A controversy is raging in Orange River Colony over the Hon. J. B. M. Hertzog's bi-lingual educational scheme. Many Dutch parents consider the children are being sacrificed to the politicians Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Sheffield, said that the Government cannot recogj nNe the annexation of the Congo till the ■ system of government there has been ' changed. If the present situation were I prolonged indefinitely it must result in unde.-hable complications, j The destroyer Sa.raoen was badly dam- ■ aged through collision with a cargo t-teamer off the Suffolk coast. j The Baltic Mercantile Shipping Exohin^e has opened a subsciiption towards Captain Scotf.s Antarctic expedition. October 23. The Time* states that Messrs Harland . and Wolff, the Canadian Pacific Railway J Company, the Allan Line, and the Do1 minion Government will unite in the con- | ttruction of a dry dock ami lepairing I pla«t at St. John's, New Brunswick. I capable of accommodating the largest battlp.-hip. The Government N giving a I pub.-idy of 3 per cent., but not exceeding £9000" yearly. Mr Hugh' Frank Newall. M.A.. F.R.S , vho i.- engaged in a-»tiophy-kal j-e-^eaich pi CfUiibridup University, mw H<ille\'s crret on Thi'i.-dar with a Lii^e i effector. October 2*. Pa-tor Wi-e ha- commenced a term of , four months' impii~onm?nt at Liveipool fur li ; « rt-fu-Rl to refrain from holding Bible class? parade--, -which led to j-oine ] loting. Sixty thou=and protesters accompanied Mr Wis-e to the prison gates. Thirty thousand visitors inspected the Ximrod. The profits, amounting to-£2OGO, will be »iven to charities. The Nimiod i? going to Liverpool and other British and Continental seapoit.-. A gang of robber.- 5 bioke into the Church of the Holy Mother of Cze^tochowa, which contained an image that had been worshipped in Poland for 500 \eai?. They jbtole a diamond ciown — a votive

i offering — valued at £100,000, and then i escaped. Mr Pierpant Morgan has purchased Mr . Marsden Perry's, collection of Chinese . porcelain, consisting of 300 flawless speci- - meiis, for 60,000d01. > PARIS, October 24. I The French Minister of Works, address- . ing hi-- constituents, announced that hence- ; forward when granting mining concessions he would always include a proviso that the miners should share in the profits. BERLIN. October 21. Ten thousand tobacco workers have been di.-misped, and there will be more when, the Christmas rush is over. Many of those who were given work on the Berlin-Stettin canal have been obliged to discontinue owing to their physical unfitn«sd. COPENHAGEN, October 19. Mr Christensen, Minister of Defence, has resigned owing to hostile demonstrations wliieh were the result of his alleged j responsibility in connection with the Aiberti frauds. STOCKHOLM, October 24. The Hague Arbitration Tribunal has decided in Sweden's favour in her maritime frontier dispute with Norway. ROME, October 23. The Pope granted a private audience to a number of Australian priests, and manifested great interest in the leligious affairs of Anstialia. He a<-ked a number of i-eaichine; questions regarding the prevailing condition«. ST. PETERSBURG. October 20. A police spy named Fed-?roff, who wormed him.-elf into the confidence of the revolutionists, has be"en mindered, pie.-umablv for his treachery. CONSTANTINOPLE. Yktober 21. Thiuuiih the biii\-,tinsr of a dam at Lake Deskos. neai- Constantinople, 25 workmen weie drowned. BELGRADE. October 22. The Seivian Cabinet has rcj-iuned. NKW YORK. October 25. The Delaware, the fir-t American Dieadnought. attained a speed of 22 knots, and her engines developsd 30,000 hoise-power duiin^ her trials. OTTAWA. October 21. Some boys playing with a switch on the Canadian Pacific railway caused the complete derailment of an express train at Noith Bay. By a. maivdloiis chance no li\es were lost, nor were any persons sciiou^ly injured. October 22. The Government proposes to introduce an Insurance Bill permitting foreign companies to do fiie business in Canada on payment of 15 per cent, of their net premium income, to protect Canadian companies from the injustice of permitting

1 outside associations to do business in. the . Dominion without the deposition of £20,000. I October 23. A deputation consisting of the leading Canadian manufacturers has asked the - f Government far a subsidy of 250,000d0l for a direct steamship service between Canada and Australia, via the Atlantic. I CALCUTTA, October 20. The Malaria Conference, now sitting at j Simla, suggests that the Indian Govern.I merit should appoint am investigation corn- - mittee to co-operate with an organisation in each province. It also advises the restriction of wet cultivation near those towns where it is known to be the source of anopheles, and recommends that the j treatment of malaria be taught in the schools. PEKING. October 20. Thirteen ve&seks mostly small, were wrecked as the result of a typhoon afc Hongkong. -^