MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11966, 19 June 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, June 18. At tho first sitting of the Red Cross Society's Conference the Turkish delegates lodged a strong objection to the Red Cross symbol, and pleaded for the substitution of a Red Crescent for relieS work amongst Mussulmans. The Conference refused to make the change. @ At tennis Brookes and Miss Sutton won the mixed doubles in the championship of Kent. The War Office is investigating reported disquieting defects of tho steel casing of Lyddite shells. Many thousands igsued are being examined The "Daily Express's" Odessa correspondent 3ays it is reported at Sevastopol that the Black Sea Squadron has been placed temporarily out of commission, the gun locks having been removed. About 700 seamen and gunners have been arrested. The tone of tba English press aS regards the position in Russia _is somewhat pessimistic I^SSZ Paris, June 18. News has been received that the competition in the motor race from Pekin to Paris, have reached Kalgan. En route they traversed morasses, deep sand and mountains. Berlin, June 18» Herr Harden, in the newspaper "Zukunft," declares that the insinuations against Prince" Enlenburg, the Court favorite, who has demanded a trial, were not aimed at the latter's moral character, but were intended to break through a ritu which a clique of mystics had attempted to form around the Crown Prince. The paper bronght facts to the Kaiser's knowledge, and the action of the Kaiser in banishing the incriminated persons from the Court has won the. approbation of the pub--lie. Lisbon, June 18. An explosion, attributed to the gency of dismissed] workkmen, wrecked a building at Coveiha, killing 30. Capetown, June 18. Several miners working in the Comet mine in the Rand were waylaid and sjamboked. In another instance the house of inmates who had resumed work after ! striking were blown up with dynamite. The explosion killed a shiftboss belonging to the Comet jnine named Richards.