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MIDLAND RAILWAY. London, May 12. The committee of debenture holders in the New Zealand Midland rnilway is inviting bondholders to state if tbey will accept the Government's offer of bonds instead of cash. It recommends them to accept the offer stating that it would be inadvisable to re-open the question. Many members of the New Zealand Parliament being adverse to paying anything. THE TRANSVAAL LOAN. London, May 11. The subscriptions for the Transvaal loan closed on Saturday, and were afterwards quoted at a premium of £1 7s 6d. The B.uik of England supplied the market with £25,000,000 for loan purposes. The Standard states that there were 150,000 applications, amounting to £1,000,000,000 sterling. CANADIAN WHARF STRIKE. London, May 11. There are twenty-six steamships in Montreal harbour awaiting the end of the longshoremen's strike. The basis of settlement submitted by Mr Mulock, the Postmaster-General, recognising the Union, but excluding foreign agitators from its provisions, wbb rejected on the ground that the Union was not fully recognised. ANARCHISTS ARRESTED. New York, May 11. Thirty Anarchists, including a brother of Czolgoz, the murderer of President McKinley. have been arrested at Los Angelos in order to ensure the safety of President Roosevelt during the visit he is paying to the city. THE AUSTRALIAN FLAGSHIP. London, May 11. The Times' Hongkoug correspondent, in announuirg the Spartiate's arrival there from Portsmouth, states that if she becomes the Australian flagship the colonies will secure the most economical and best-steaming cruiser in the navy. CANADA AND PREFERENCE. Ottawa, May 11. The Canadian Customs' officials insist that British goods claitniug the benefits of the preferential tariff must be accompanied by a declaration setting forth their value, and that none of the articles were produced in Germany.' GREAT FIRE IN CANADA. Ottawa, Ma* 11. A fire at Ottawa destroyed 300 bouses and 1000 people have been rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at a million and a-balf dollars. A man has been arrested on a charge of firing the lumber yard where the conflagration started. SLEEPING SICKNESS. London, May 11, Half the inhabitants on the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza are suffering from sleeping sickness. Tremendous ravages are also being made by the sickness smongst the natives in southern Kairroudo. ENGLAND AND GERMANY. Berlin, May 12. A semi-official note issued at Berlin complained that tho British Government did not check the Germanophobe agitation, although the German Government resisted German public opinion in favour of the Boers. SOMALILAND. London, May 12. General Manning's movements in Soumliland depend upon the strategy of the Abyssinian forces, as they are nearer to the enemy. PLAGUE IN PERU. London, May 11. News has been received that plague has broken out at Callao amongst the workmen employed in the flourmill there. EXPLOSION OF KEROSENE. New York, May 12. Four of the Standard Oil Company's barges containing eight hundred thousand gallons of oil exploded at Long Island. BOER EMIGRANTS. New York, May 12. Viljoen and Snyuiau, [Boer exgenerals, have secured three thousand acres of land in Mexico for Boer emigrants. THE EMIR CAPTURED. London, May 11. An officer belonging to the British Boundary Commission lias captured the Emir of Kano. THE BRITISH CORN-TAX. London, May 11. Unionist dissatisfaction at the Government's action in abandoning the corn-tax is increasing. Mr Ritchie is receiviug rnauy indignant protests. THE KING. London, May 12. The King and Queen have left for Edinburgh. MISCELLANEOUS. London, May 11. Coolie riots have occurred in Berbice, in British Guiana. '1 he police fired on the rioters, killing six and wounding seven. Prince Andrew, fourth son of the King of Greece, is betrothed to Princess Victoria Alice, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenburg. New York, May 12. Strikes and lockouts in New York involvo 100,000 carpenters, brickmakers, teamsters, and subway employees, stopping 75,000,000 dollars' worth of work.