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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No. 92. 
Newfoundland. — 25th : Attorney-General Norwood was 
appointed Chief Justice, and Mr. Johnson Assistant Judge. 
St. Vincent. — oth : Fresh eruptions of La Souffriere took 
place. — 17th : A severe earthquake occurred. — 21st : Another 
earthquake was felt. 
Transvaal. — 2nd : The second annual conference of 
teachers in Government schools began at Johannesburg. — 4th: 
The press censorship was relaxed. — 5th : The labour problem 
on the Rand caused some anxiety. Sir Percy Girounrd was 
appointed Railway Commissioner. — 8th : A scheme for re- 
patriating the burghers was adopted — 9th : Lord Milner 
received the members of the Teachers’ Conference.— 10th : The 
surrender of the Boers was completed. — 15th : Ex-President 
Steyn and Mrs. Steyn left for Europe.- — 16th : Sir Arthur 
Lawley accepted the Lieutenant-Governorship. — 22nd : Louis 
Botha’ and Delarey left Pretoria for the Cape, en route to 
Europe. — 24th : Orders were issued for the removal of the wire 
fence round Johannesburg. 
Trinidad.— nth : It was reported that a petroleum oil- 
field had been discovered. 
Uganda. — 30th : Majors Delmd-Radcliffe and Knight, 
Commissioners for the delimitation of the Anglo-German 
boundary, arrived at Mombasa. 
INDIA. 
1st : The number On famine relief was 439,000. — 8th : The 
number on famine relief was 449,000. — 9th : A loan of 150 lakhs 
of rupees was subscribed three times over. A commission was 
appointed to enquire into police reform questions. — 15th : The 
number on famine relief was 475,000. — 16th : It was announced 
that the Viceroy would ins'al the Maharajah of Mysore on 
August 1. — 27th : The number on famine relief was 423,000. — 
28th : The British Consul at Teng-yueh-ting informed the Burma 
Government that all taxes and exactions had ceased on the 
Bhamo route. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Abyssinia. — 28th : It was reported that the gold mines in 
the Baro valley had been sold to an English syndicate for 
7^2,000,000. 
Argentine Republic. — 4th : Sir T. Holdich left Buenos 
Ayres for England, having acted as arbitrator in connection 
with the Patagonian frontier dispute with Chili. 
Belgium. — 17th : The Pan-American Congress was opened 
at Brussels. 
China. — 1st : An Anglo-French syndicate secured valuable 
mining concesssion in Yun-nan, — 9th: Sir J. L. Mackay and 
the Chinese Commissioners arrived at Han-Kau. — 13th: New 
Chinese ministers to Russia, France, Italy, and the United 
States were appointed. An edict was issued providing for the 
completion of the Canton-Han-kau railway. — 15th: The 
Foreign Ministers agreed to hand over Tien-tsin within four 
weeks. — 19th : The conditions for the restoration of Tien-tsin 
were accepted. — 21st : The Government approved of the entire 
abolition of likin, — 26th : The Commercial Treaty between 
Great Britain and China was concluded. — 28th : Chang Chih- 
tung was appointed Director of Commerce. — 29th: The revision 
of the Customs tariff was completed. 
Congo State. — 1st: The 17th anniversary of the foundation 
of the State was celebrated. 
Denmark. — 22nd :.The International Fisheries Conference 
was opened at Copenhagen. 
Egypt. — 22nd : Cholera was reported to be very prevalent. 
25th : Cholera was general throughout Cairo. 
France. — 1st : M. Beau, French Minister in Peking, was 
appointed Governor-General of Indo-China. — 4th : The Senate 
adopted the Military Service Bill. — 5th: A statue of the elder 
Dumas was unveiled at Villers-Cotterets. — 8th : The Chamber 
passed the Conversion Bill. The President received the Crown 
Prince of Siam at the Elysde, — 9th: The Senate passed the 
Conversion Bill. — 15th : — Ras Makonnen arrived in Paris, and 
was presented to M. Loubet. — 19th : The Archbishop of Paris 
protested against the order dosing the Roman Catholic schools. 
—24th : Ras Makonnen left Paris for Zurich. — 26th : 26 schools 
conducted by religious communities were closed in Paris.— 
28th : Admirals de Beaumont and Servan were dismissed the 
■service. 
Germany. — 5th : The news of King Edward’s recovery 
was received with great satisfaction.— 10th : The death of the 
Duchess Frederica of Anhalt Bernburg was announced. 
Haiti. — 21st : General Firmin was proclaimed President in 
the Province of Artabonite. 
Holland. — -2nd : The Queen’s health continued to improve. 
Italy . — 10th : King Victor Emmanuel left Racconigi on 
his journey to Russia. — 14th : The Campanile of St. Mark, 
Venice, suddenly fell, owing to insecure foundations. — 22nd : 
Death of Cardinal Ledochowski in Rome. — 29th : The Pope 
appointed Cardinal Gotti Prefect of the Propaganda, in suc- 
cession to Cardinal I^edochowski. 
Japan — 2nd: The Russian Grand Duke Boris arrived in 
Tokio. 
Martinique. — 9th : A fresh eruption of Mont Pelde 
occurred. 
Persia. — 25th : It was reported that the Russian Consul at 
Bushire had made extensive purchases of land on Bahrein Island. 
Earthquake shocks were felt at Bandar Abbas, 
Philippines. — 1st: The Provincial Government was inaugu- 
rated at Laguna. — 4th : The insurrection was declared at an 
end, except in the Moro country. 
Portuguese East Africa. — 4th: A serious fire occurred 
at Lorenzo Marques. 
Rou mania. — 29th : The Ministry was reconstituted, with 
M. Aurelian as Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Domains. 
Russia.— 2nd : Serious disturbances of workmen and 
peasants were reported from .the province of Ekaterinoslav. — 
13th : The King of Italy arrived at Peterhof, and was received 
by the Tsar. 17th : The King of Italy left Peterhof on his 
return to Italy. 
Spain.— 2nd : The King signed a decree for the regulation 
of non-official instruction in Spain. 
Sweden. — 5th: A new Ministry was formed with Herr 
Bostrbm as Premier. 
Turkey 4th : M. Rouvier’s project for the unification of 
the debt was approved by the Cabinet Council. 19th : An 
Irad6 was issued for opening negotiations with the Ottoman 
Bank to convert the Customs and Fisheries Loans of 1886 and 
1888. 21st : The Sultan appointed a commission to consider 
reform measures in Macedonia. 
United States. — 1st : Congress adjourned till December 
The body of the late Lord Pauncelote was placed on board the. 
cruiser Brooklyn , for conveyance to England. 2nd : President 
Roosevelt signed the Philippines Civil Government Bill. 4th : 
Independence Day was celebrated. A great demonstration took 
place at Pittsburg on the occasion of President Roosevelt's visit. 
Venezuela.— 4th : It was reported that the revolutionists 
had captured Barquisimeto, and were inarching on Valencia. 
Zanzibar— 18th : Death of the Sultan Hamud. 20th : 
Seyyid Ali was proclaimed Sultan, with Mr. Rogers as Regent. 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
London.— On the 6th inst. Lord Roberts and Lord 
Kitchener will receive Congratulatory Addresses from 
the City Corporation at the Guildhall. — On the 8th the Queen 
will preside at the annual meeting of the Soldiers’ and 
Sailors’ Families Association," Queen’s Hall. — On the 
9th inst. the Coronation of Their Majesties The King 
AND Queen will take place in Westminster Abbey. 
Portsmouth.— On the t6th inst. the Coronation Naval 
Review will be held at Spithead. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Germany. — An International Exhibition of Automobiles, 
similar to that held in 1901, will take place at Hamburg from 
the 3rd to the 12th October next. The exhibition, which is 
being organised by the Association of German Cycle Merchants, 
will be held in the hall of the Rotherbaum Velodrome. Par- 
ticulars may be obtained on application by letter to M. Loffler, 
Dammthorstrasse, 32, Hamburg. 
Greece. — An International Exhibition of Commerce, 
Industry, the Fine Arts, Hygiene, etc., will be opened at Athens 
on the 15th October next, under the patronage of H.R.H. the 
Duchess of Sparta. This enterprise, it may be noted, though 
regarded favourably by the Greek Government, has no official 
character. 
Mexico.— Commercial Museum of Italian Products. 
— An association of Milan merchants is about to organise in 
Mexico city a commercial museum for all Italian products which 
might be imported into Mexico. At the same time a similar 
establishment will be founded in Milan, where samples of agri- 
cultural products such as tobacco, coffee, “henequen," 
caoutchouc, etc., as well as of Mexican ores will be exhibited. 
It is further stated that the Hungarian Government has 
appointed a representative in Mexico city to establish a 
commercial museum for products of Hungarian manufacture. 
NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. 
NAVAL. 
Vice-Admiral A. P. M. Lake has been placed on the retired 
list, to date from July 1. 
The War spite, cruiser, was paid off at Chatham on the 
1st ult. She is to be prepared for emergency service. 
The Thunderer, second-class battleship, is ordered to be 
fitted at Chatham as an emergency ship at a cost of ,£5,400. 
The Severn, cruiser, which is attached to the Medway 
Fleet Reserve, is to be fitted with wireless telegraphy apparatus. 
The Audacious has been commissioned at Chatham by 
Captain H. L. Tottenham as a base for torpedo - boat 
destroyers. 
The TtmJraire, battleship, was commissioned at Devonport 
on the 16th ult. by Captain A. W. E, Prothero as depot ship of 
the Devonport Fleet Reserve. 
The Good Service Pension of /, 2 °° a year, vacant by the 
death of General Sir C. L. Barnard, R. M.A., has been awarded 
to General Sir J. W. C. Williams, R.M.A. 
The President of the Board of Trade has appointed Captain 
John Leslie Burr, R.N., C.M.G., to be the harbour-master at 
Holyhead, in place of the late Commander Clapp, R.N. 
The Ariadne, cruiser, Captain M. E. Browning, flying the 
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir A, L. Douglas, has left Portsmouth 
Harbour for the North America and West Indies Station. 
The London, battleship, Captain J. E. C. Goodrich, which 
was to have been the flagship of Admiral Sir C. F, Hotham 
had the review been held, left for the Mediterranean on the 
3rd ult. 
The following promotions have been notified : — Rear- 
Admiral D. H. Bosanquet to be Vice-Admiral, to date from 
July 1. Captain G. C. Langley to be Rear-Admiral, to date 
from July 1. 
The sEolus, cruiser, is to commission at Devonport on 
September 10, to replace the Empress of India, battleship, 
Captain H. L. Fleet, as flagship of Rear-Admiral E. F. Jeffreys 
on the coast of Ireland. 
The Royal Sovereign, battleship, Captain F, S. Inglefield, 
on being relieved in the Mediterranean by the Lonaon, is to 
take the place of the Trafalgar, battleship, Captain G. A, 
Primrose, as port guardship at Portsmouth. 
Rear-Admiral Sir E. Chichester terminated his appointment 
on the nth ult. a^i officer in command of the Devonport Fleet 
Reserve. He is succeeded by Captain A. W. E. Protheroe, 
who commanded the Naval Brigade at Graspan, where he was 
wounded. 
Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim have launched at Barrow 
the sixth submarine built for the British Admiralty. She is 
too ft. long, compared with 63 ft. in the case of the first five 
vessels, and possesses greater speed and many improvements 
which the trials of the earlier submarines have suggested. 
Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co. (Limited), Chiswick, 
launched from their works on 22nd ult. a first-class torpedo- 
boat, which will be known as No. 109, At the latter end of 
last year the firm received an order for five vessels closely 
resembling the four built by them in 1901, and No. 109 is the 
first of them to leave the ways. 
The Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, which 
has hitherto been under the control of the Admiral-Superintendent 
of Devonport Dockyard, is in future to be under the direct 
control of the Commander in-Chief of the port. The work of 
the engineer students in the dockyard workshops is still to be 
regulated by the dockyard officials. 
The Good Hope, armoured cruiser, is to be ready for com- 
missioning at Portsmouth by September 30 as flagship of 
Rear-Admiral W, H. Fawkes, who will assume command of 
the Home Cruiser Squadron, and the King Alfred, armoured 
cruiser, which is preparing for her steam trials, is to be ready 
for commissioning at Portsmouth by November 30, 
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have awarded 
a Good Service pension of 7J150 a year to each of the following 
officers -To Captain Arthur C. Clarke, R, N., in the vacancy 
caused by the promotion of Captain Gerald C. Langley, R.N. , 
and to Captain Richard W. White, R.N., in the vacancy caused 
by the retirement of Captain Henry C. Bigge, R. N. 
The British Medical Journal states : — “ We are informed 
that a complete X-ray outfit has been ordered, at a cost of 
ffsj. 18s. 6d. , for all flagships. Almost all His Majesty’s ships 
are now supplied with electric light plant, which will be avail- 
able for such an outfit. Naval hospitals have recently been 
supplied with Rontgen ray apparatus, and instruction is now 
given to surgeons in the work." 
The Hercules , battleship, was temporarily commissioned 
at Portsmouth on the 16th ult. by Captain j. M. De Robeek, 
who will transfer his pennant to the Warrior when the refit of 
that ship is completed. The Warrior, which will then become 
the parent ship of the torpedo craft in the Portsmouth Reserve, 
will be moored in Fountain Lake, where a basin 26 ft. in depth 
has been dredged out of the nmd for her accommodation. 
The Belleville water-tube boiler is finally condemned for 
the purposes of the Navy in the report of Admiral Domvile's 
Committee, which was issued by the Admiralty last night. 
Since the interim report was published comparisons have been 
made with the Hyacinth (carrying Belleville boilers) and the 
Minerva (with cylindrical boilers), and a full-power trial was 
made with the Diadem, which also has Belleville boilers. The 
result is to confirm the opinion previously expressed that, while 
satisfactory water-tube boilers are preferable to cylindrical, the 
Belleville type cannot be recommended for the Navy. 
Vice-Admiral Sir T. S. Jackson relinquished his appoint- 
ment on the nth ult., as Admiral-Superintendent of the 
Devonport Dockyard, and handed over the command to 
Rear-Admiral W. H. Henderson. Admiral Lord Charles 
Scott, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, accompanied by his 
staff and also the principal naval officers and Admiralty officials 
at Devonport, assembled at the railway station on the departure 
of Sir Thomas and Lady Jackson for London. Lady Jackson 
was presented with a basket of flowers by the wives of dockyard 
officers. During the day the new Admiral-Superintendent met 
the heads of departments. 
Nos, 3 and 4 submarine boats returned to Barrow Docks, 
after about eight hours’ trial in the Irish Sea. The experiments, 
which were carried out on a measured mile, included surface 
and submerged tests, and in every respect these gave the 
greatest satisfaction. No. 3 boat underwent her preliminary 
trials at sea some days ago, but this was the first occasion on 
which the fourth boat had been taken out of the docks. Her 
accomplishments were on the same satisfactory scale as her 
predecessor’s, and seeing that four of the boats building at 
Barrow have so far proved successful, it is expected wor k will 
at once be commenced for the construction of the four additional 
boats included in the last naval programme. 
The Odin , sloop, built at Sheerness Dockyard and engined 
by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, returned 
to Sheerness Harbour on the 8th ult. from a 30-hours’ coal 
consumption trial in the Channel, which proved successful. The 
machinery was worked at three-fourteenths the maximum horse 
power, and the particulars were as follows: — Pressure of steam 
in boilers, 208 lb. ; ditto at engines, 201 lb. ; vacuum — starboard, 
26 '6 in. ; port, 26710. ; revolutions — starboard, 122 ; port, 121; 
i.h.p. — starboard, high, 51; intermediate, 47; low, 54 — 
total, 152 ; port, high, 47 ; intermediate, 45 ; low, 64 — total, 156; 
aggregate starboard and port, 308 i.h.p.; speed, 9^4 knots; 
coal consumption, 1*52 lb. per i.h.p. per hour, The Odin, 
which is fitted with the Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers, 
left Sheerness on Thursday, the 10th ult., for a 30-hours' steam 
trial of r.ooo h.p. 
The Powerful, cruiser, has completed a two-hours’ full- 
power trial after repair. Sufficient power was obtained an 
hour-and-a-half after starting, and the mean i.h.p. of the two 
hours was 23,508, while in the last-hour it rose to nearly 25,000. 
The mean speed was 21 - 2, and in the last half-hour 21 '6 knots 
was reached. The result compares favourably with the official 
contract trials some years ago, when with 25,886 h.p. she made 
a speed of 21 '8 knots. At the contract trial, however, she had a 
mean draught of 27 ft. 6 in., and at her trial after repair a 
draught of 28 ft. 9 in., her load having been increased by the 
addition of four 6-in. quick-firing guns, which were also tried 
before the vessel went on her speed run. The mean of the 
revolutions at the two-hours’ trial was 108 '8, against 114 at the 
contract trial, and the steam in boilers was 235 lb., against 
257 lb. The boilers, which have been in the ship seven years, 
gave no trouble of any kind. 
Chili. — According to the Valparaiso correspondent of the 
Times, the Chilian Government states that the British Govern- 
ment has offered to take over next year the ships under 
construction for Chili. 
Holland. — The Dutch Minister of Marine, in reply to a 
recent question asked in the States-General as to what form of 
boiler he proposed to adopt for their new ships, stated that he 
intended to adhere to the boilers of the Yarrow type, which had 
many advantages over all others, the disadvantages having 
gradually diminished or disappeared by experience. 
Russia. — The Yushnaya Rossiya (South Russia) publishes 
the following particulars of the new Russian battleship, Kniaz 
Potemkin Tavricheski. She was begun in the Admiralty yards, 
Nikolaieff, on December 27, 1897, launched October 9, 1900, 
and commissioned June 21 this year. Her length over all is 
378 ft. 6 in., and at the water-line 371 ft. 2% in. ; beam, 73 ft. ; 
draught, 27 ft. ; displacement, 12,600 tons ; engines, 10,600 horse- 
power ; speed, 16 knots. She is fitted with Belleville boilers, 
the two groups aft being heated by coal and the one group 
forward by petroleum. Of coal she carries 670 tons and of 
petroleum 580 tons, which together give her a radius of 
3,393 miles at a speed of 9*3 knots. She is an improved type 
of the Tri Sviatitelia (Three Patriarchs). Her armour extends 
237 ft. along the load-line on each side, with a thickness of 
8 in. and 9 in., and is continued to the ends fore and aft with a 
thickness of 3 in. ; at the lower casemates it is 6 in. thick, with 
a run of 156 ft. on each side ; and at the upper casemates, or 
battery, for a length of 168 ft. on each side, the thickness is 
5 in. The bulkheads at the terminations of the above-named 
armour are respectively 7 in., 6 in., and 5 in. in thickness. 
The lower steel deck is § in. thick, with armour-plates lg in. 
on the horizontal and i| in. on the sloping parts ; it extends as 
far as the armour-belt. All the armour is of Krupp steel, made 
in Russia at the Izhorski works. The upper armour deck has a 
thickness of i| in. The armament consists of four 12-in. Canet 
guns of 40 calibres, sixteen 6-in. Canet guns of 45 calibres, 
fourteen 2'95-in, Ganet guns, six i'85 Hotchkiss guns, six 
machine guns, two Baranovski landing guns, and five submerged 
torpedo-tubes — one at the bows and four broadside. 
The Kronstadtski Viestnik states that the refitting of the 
battleship Impcrator Alexander II. and of the cruiser Pamiat 
Azova has been postponed till the winter of 1903. Both vessels 
will be used next year as gunnery training ships. The new 
Russian cruiser Oleg, having a speed of 23 knots, has been 
launched at St. Petersburg simultaneously with the new battle- 
ship Orel. 
United States.— According to the Washington corre- 
spondent of the Mail and Express, Mr. Moody, Secretary of the 
Navy, has stopped action on the plans for the construction of 
