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♦ LBt Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] [Per Press Association. London, March 23. Mr Huddart has engaged R. S. White, designer of the s.s. Campania, as nautical adviser in connection with the construeof new 10,600 ton steamers which he proposes to have built. Financial experts ' i declare that Mr Huddarfc lias tho brightest prospects of floating the scheme, and that the present time is opportune, as Australian shipowners hesitate to place refrigerating apparatus on their steamers invvoling tho sasrifice of a large proportion of their cargo space unless continuous cargoes are guaranteed. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Edinburgh, taunted Lord Rosebury with putting his neck under the heel of the Irish by apologising when Irish tigers raved. Berlin, March 23. Count von Caprivi, in the Reichstag, stated that the Emperor William had concluded, the commercial treaty with Russia, that the coming century would demand a coalition of the nations in Europe to meet possible events which nations were unable to withstand singly. Buenos Ayres, March 23. The Portuguese warship has declined to land here the Brazilian rebel Admiral de Gama. Washington, March 23. The American-Chinese treaty proposes that Americans going to China should be photographed and registered similar to Chinese visiting America Buda Pesth, March 23. The theatre in the city refused to close ont of respect to the death of Louis Kossutb, the Hungarian patriot, and J students expelled the players and audi- j ence. Serious riots took place owing to j the refusal of the Government to hoist the black flag.