MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London* August 14. A large Esperanto (universal .language) congress is being held at Cambridge, where 30 nationalities . are represented. Church services, sermons, and hymns were rendered iv Esperanto. The Quetfn and the Princess Victoria are staying at J_?alraoral* prior to visiting Denmark. Ottawa, August 14. The telegraphists' strike has spread to Canada. The strikers assert that 95 per cent of the telegraphists of the United States will be. out by Monday. New York, August 14.A large store of poisons and daggers has been fotind in a cellar in New York, beolngiDg to the Htinchakist Armenian Society. Sydney, August 15. » Large schools of whales are de^ sporting themselves off Sydney Heads. As many as a hundred* ranging from 60 to 70ft in length have been seen, at one time.