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year is £1,572,000 ... It is reported that leprosy lias 

 been succegsfuUy treated at the Leper Home in the 

 United States ... A committee of the United States 

 House of Representatives is appointed to inquire into 

 the best means of regulating the business of Insurance 

 Companies ... The German Navy League resolves to 

 still further increase the navy. 



May 2.5. — The death is announced of Henrik Ibsen, 

 the famous Norwegian poet and dramatist, in his 

 79th year ... The new Secretary of State for Foreign 

 Affairs in the German Ministry states that he believes 

 that German interests would not be affected even if 

 Russia and Great Britain did arrive at an understand- 

 ing regarding their poso;essions in Asia ... It is re- 

 ported at St. Petersburg that the Imperial family, 

 fearing that the Doiima would demand the espropna- 

 tion of State and Crown lands to meet the require- 

 menteof the peasants, h.Tve sold vast forests, which be- 

 longed to the Crown, to German bankers ... In connec- 

 tion with the Natal rising. Colonel Mackenzie's force 

 dostrov the kraals of Mangodi. the chief lieutenant of 

 the rebel cliief Bambaata ... Applications from the 

 Chinese coolies on the Rand for repatriation are com- 

 ing in very slowlv ... It is announced that the policy- 

 holders in the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the 

 United States will bo given the right to elect the 

 majoritv of the directors on the Board ... The Italian 

 Ministry resigns owing to an adverse vote in the 

 Chamber of Deputies. 



Mav 26.— The situation in Natal is yei-y serious. 

 Imperial troops are warned to be in readiness to take 

 the field ... Ex-General Beyers waras the Boers that 

 when the Chinese labour question is settled the 

 Liberals in England will lose all interest in South 

 Africa, and that they must fight for their national 

 existence ... A Bill is being submitted to the Russian 

 Douma bv tlie Constitutional Democrats, which pro- 

 poses to establish freedom of conscience in matters of 

 religion throughout Russia ... It is reported that the 

 Russian court-martial has sentenced Lieutenant- 

 General Stoessel to death for surrendering Port 

 Arthur to the Japanese ... The Norwegian barque, 

 '' Coimbatore." wliich left New South "Wales for Cape 

 Colony, has been posted as missing ... Further out- 

 rages occur in Macedonia; sixty persons are mur- 

 dered ... The Parliament of Cape Colony is formally 

 opened.. 



Mav 28. — The Tsar refuses the demand of the Douma 

 for a full amnesty of political prisoners, and cautions 

 the Douma not to' exc<;ed its assigned legislative initia- 

 tive ... Mr. A. Wakley. a rising young English artist, 

 is found murdered in his studio ... The Socialists are 

 signally defeated in the elections throughout Switzer- 

 land ... A Royal Commission is appointed to inquire 

 into and report on a number of questions relating to 

 the administration of the Mines Act and to the health 

 and safety of miners. 



ilay 29. — Bomb outrages occur in Russia ; several 

 persoiis are killed ... The decisive stand taken by the 

 Russian Douma, which carried a resolution demanding 

 the immediate resignation of the Ministry, is causing 

 intense excitement ... Tlie German Reichstag by 143 

 votes to 119 rejects the vote for the payment of the 

 salary of the Secretary for the Colonies ... Mr. John 

 Bums. President of the Local Government Board, de- 

 precates the tendency of Labour to isolate itself from 

 all except manual labourers ... The Hungarian Govern- 

 ment arranges with Austria a mutual commercial 

 treaty ... Kine Edward formally opens the central 

 offices of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society at Saint 

 Pancras ... A company is formed of influential Aus- 

 tralians, resident at Penang. with a capital of 

 £10.000, with the object of exploiting the tin resources 

 -of tlio Malnv States ... Tlio United States Senate 



passes a Bill imposiirg stringent provisions for the 

 inspection of meat products by Goveniment officers ... 

 The Tasmanian Parliament is opened. 



Mav 30.— The closure is applied to the Education 

 Bill in England, and the fir^t clause is carried .. 

 Grave charges are made ii» American newspapers 

 against the Chicago meat packers, who, it is alleged, 

 are selling diseased meat ... Loyal kaffirs do good work 

 in South Africa: several of the rebels surrender ... 

 The German Reichstag insists upon the concentration 

 of colonisation at a few points in South-West Africa 

 and the evacuation of the districts adjoining Cape 

 Colony. , ,. , 



May 31.— Mr. Winston Churchill delivers a speech 

 at a' dinner attended bv Western Australians resi- 

 dent in London ... Tlie Salvation Army seeks to com- 

 mence work in Spain ... It is announced that repre- 

 sentatives of nearly twenty European Parliaments 

 will meet in Westminster Hall on July 23rd to confer 

 on international matters ... Great Britain and France 

 agree' to send a joint commission to Nigeria to de- 

 limit the British and French possessions between the 

 Niger River and Lake Chad ... The British Govern- 

 ment decides to make a grant for three years for the 

 teaching of the Irish language in the national schools 

 ... A destructive rain storm sweeps over San Francisco. 

 June 1.— The Beef Tnist is reported to be panic- 

 stricken over the revelation of their businesses ... The 

 .steamer "Lismore" is reported lost, 22 sailors being 

 drowned ... The British battleship "Montague" goes 

 ashore on the west coast of England ... The death of 

 Mt. Michael Davitt is announced ... A reconciliation 

 is stated to be probable between the Tsar and the 

 Douma ... The Australian visit of the English Labour 

 delegation is postponed ... The Sen-ian King retires 

 the principal officers who took part in the murder of 

 the late King on full pay and increased pensions ... 

 A bomb is thrown at the' King of Spain and Princess 

 Ena ; 24 persons are killed and 50 wounded, but the 

 King and Princess escape injury. 



June 2. — A strong debate takes place in the British 

 Parliament on the Unemployed que.stion ... Mr. A. B. 

 Aylesworth becomes Minister of Justice, and Mr. 

 Lemieux Postmaster-General in Canada in consequence 

 of some changes in the Ministi-y ... The attempt to 

 secure the repatriation of Chinese on the Rand is said 

 to be a failure. 



June 4. — Mateo Moral, arrested by the police on 

 suspicion of having thrown the bomb at the Spanish 

 wedding, commits suicide on arrest ... President 

 Roosevelt acquiesces in the Canadian offer of assist- 

 ance of £20,000 to the San Francisco Fund ... Ad- 

 miral Rojestvensky and 11 officers are to be tried by 

 court-martial for surrendering " Biedovi." 



Ji,ne 5. — Mr. Seddon appoints a Victorian Agent for 

 New Zealand ... A new Cabinet is formed in Austria; 

 it will be a Coalition Cabinet between the Germans 

 and Czechs ... ;XI. Brisson is re-elected President of 

 the French Cliamber of Deputies ... Tlie Chinese 

 Customs dispute is settled. China agreeing that exist- 

 ing arrangements shall not be interfered with ... In a 

 Labour disturbance in Mexico, 5000 miners destroy a 

 copper mine with dynamite ... l.")0.000 men are locked 

 out in Austria in con.sequonce of a trade dispute. 



June 6.— W. P. Crick, M.L.A., of New South Wales, 

 and Mr. Bath are ai-rested in connection with charges 

 arising out of the Lands' administration of the State 

 ... The Prince and Princess of Wales do not attend 

 n bull fight in Madrid in honour of the royal wed- 

 ding. 



.Tune 7. — The London VitHy Telegrnph states that 

 "The .\diniralty and the War Office" will stipulate 

 in future contracts that tinned meats shall only be 

 accepted from the British colonies ... The Emperor of 

 Gerni.inv visits the Emperor of Austria. 



