Review of Revievs, 1/0/06. 



Day by Day, 



527 



April 2o. — The Bolgian training ship " Comte Des- 

 met Denaeyer," having on board thirty naval cadets 

 bound for Australia, founders in the Bay of Biscay. 

 The captain and thirty-three men and boys aie 

 drowned ... The Servian regicides plot against King 

 Peter ... £13,000,000 out of Russia's loan of 

 £02,000,000 is being is.sued in London ... A religious 

 fight takes place at Warsaw between the Kom-m 

 Catholics and the Mariavites. 



April 26. — ^^An attempt to assassinate ex-President 

 Loubet is discovered ... The Italian Minister for 

 Foreign Affairs gives expression to feelings of heaity 

 friendship towards France and England ... It is an- 

 nounced that tlu' Tsar will personally open the Duma 

 on. the 10th Alay ... A warning has been issued to the 

 Sultan that his occupancy of the Sinai Peninsula will 

 not be tolerated. 



.A.pril 27. — 2000 troops are in tlie field in connection 

 with the Natal disturbances ... A stir is reported as 

 having been made in the English House gallery by 

 ladies w hen the Woman's Suffrage movement was 

 brought on ... The second reading of the Trades Dis- 

 putes Bill is carried in the English House ... Another 

 fcxpe*lition is proposed to the Antarctic ... H.S.H. 

 Prince Hohcnlohe-Langenburg, late Regent of Saxe- 

 Coburg-Gntha, is a probable successor to Prince Bulow 

 ... The Socialists of Fiance are engaging in an active 

 propaganda. 



April 28. — Another shock of earthquake is experi- 

 enced at San Francisco ... The Porte remains obdu- 

 rate oyer the Sinai Peninsula ... The Boers are co- 

 operating to check the Xatal trouble ... The Dominion 

 Senate adopts the resolution, previously passed by 

 the Canadian House of Commons, inviting the King 

 and Queen to visit Canada ... The Russian loan of 

 £90,000,000, issue<l to the different countries of 

 Europe, is a pronounced success. 



.\prii 30.— The British Government stated that it 

 will not allow any tampering wdth Egypt ... Very 

 warm and friendly relations are growing between 

 Afghanistan and India ... The slander in the "Daily 

 J[ail," leHecting nn the morals of Australians, is 

 sternly repudiated b.% the Agents-General ... President 

 Roosevelt is strictly adhering to his decision to refuse 

 outside help for the San Francisco sufferers, in spite 

 of the fact that large donations have been offered 

 from many nations. 



May 1. —An important advance in the wages paid 

 to cotton weavers and winders in Lancashire has been 

 obtainetl .. Some uneasiness is displayed in Paris at 

 the approach of jMay Day. Outrages are feared. 



Mav 2, — The natives of the Transvaal are asking 

 for the franchise. They also declare that the Poll Tax 



is excessive, and petition for a reduction ... The Natal 

 rebels are sai<l to number 8000 ... An agreement has 

 been arrived at between Great Britain and France 

 delimiting the Nigeria boundary ... A shocking col- 

 liery fatality occurs in Wales. Five men are killed 

 and" seven injured ... The King and Queen ascend 

 Mount Vesuvius ... The Japanese Mikado reviews 

 55,000 veteran troops ... Continual shocks of earth- 

 quake are occurring in California. 



May 3. — May Day passed off in Europe without any 

 serious disturbance ... 200,000 people are stated to be 

 in iK>ed of relief in San Francisco ... The Supreme 

 Court 01 Xatal has ordered the extradition Of \V. N. 

 Willis ... /'OOO Reservists offer their services against 

 Banibaata ... A serious military revolt is rep<>rt«'<i 

 from Sebastopol. 



;May 4. — The Turkish Commissioner boasts that 

 Turkey has 8f),000 troops on the Egyptian frontier ... 

 .Vii ofiict'r is arrested in Paris in consequence of as- 

 serting that he would not cause bloodshed. He is to 

 be ntiic'd from the army ... Count Witte resigns, and 

 51. Goreiiiykine is named as his probable successor ... 

 The British Eire Insurance Companies decide not to 

 recognise any liability in respect to damage to pro- 

 perty pausc<l by earthquake ... The rebel strength in 

 .Vatal is reported to be dwindling. 



May .").— An ultimatum has been presented to Tur- 

 key by Britain over the Sinai Peninsula ... King Ekl- 

 ward speaks in a friendly way at a banquet in the 

 Palace El.vsee given by the President of France ... 

 British Nonconformists are dissatisfied with the Edu- 

 cation Bill ... The Premier of Natal has accepted the 

 offer of Imperial troops to crush the Natal rebellion 

 ... The South .\frican Customs Conference concludes 

 its work at Pietermaritzburg ... The Independence 

 Party is successful at the Hungarian elections ... The 

 Porte and the Persian Government arrive at a settle- 

 ment with regard to the delimitation of the boundary 

 between Turkey in Asia and Persia ... An indemnity 

 of £55.000 has been paid by China to France with 

 respect to the massacre of six French Jesuit priests 

 in February ... A collision takes place between the 

 " Buninyong " and tlie barque " Criffle " in Sydney 

 Harbour. 



May 7. — .\dmiral Dubasoff, of Mosoow, is wounded 

 b.v a bomb explosion ... Turkey is given ten days' 

 wrace to withdraw her troops from Sinai ... The 

 dreadful discdvery is made that thirty-nine miners 

 were uiisnught in the Westphalian coal mine after an 

 explosion, ami died of hunger ... President Roosevelt 

 sends a message to Congress suggesting that the Go- 

 vernment be entrusted with power to control inter- 

 state commerce. 





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