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to July I, and Ss2, 000, 900 monthly thereafter. At this rate nearly the whole of the next fiscal year will be required to complete the payment of these arrears. The Commissioner of Pen sions, in view of this has issued a circular let. ter Q copy of which will De mailed to each a,,. picant for afrears as soon as a supply can be printed. It states that there will be delay in paying the arrears of pensions.
 Foreign News.
 A London dispatch says that l20 ,OO0 colliers met in conference at Barnsley, the center of the Yorkshire mining district. They decided to demand m increase of ten per cent. on their pay, and if refused to stop work throughout the country. Another conference will be held in Birmingham in five weeks to fix the date for giving notice of strike. The interval will be devoted to agitation
 great fire at Povnah, India, destroyed about sixty houses.
 Queen Victora is now great-gnndmother, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, the wife of Prince Bernhard of Sa&e- Meiningen, daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany md grand daughter of England's queen, having given birth to daughter.
 In Toronto Richard Casey, nged five years, John Casey, aged three years, and John Emard, aged five years, were burned to death in a shed which they fired while playing with matches. The same playthings started fire in Montreal recently that swept of forty buildings.
 Five persons were killed outright and sev- eral others were severely injured by boiler explosion in Wallsall, England.
 Late advices from the war in South America state that the Bolivians have retaken the city of Atacama, and that It, 900 Bolivian troops were marching to attack the Chilians.
 Jacob Staempfli, a well-known Swiss politi- cinn, three times president of the Swiss Con- federation, and subsequently, a member of the Geneva Court of Arbitration on the Alabama claims, is dead in his sixtieth year.
 Several large fires have occurred in East Russian towns, causing great distress. They are charged to the Nihilists, and in Orenburg alone seventy arrests for inccndiarism have been made.
 The International Congress to discuss pro- lects for ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama met ct the Grand Hotel, Paris. M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, engineer of the Suez canal, was elected president Rear-Admiral Daniel Ammen, of the United States navy, was chosen one of the vice presidents. All of the powers applied to sent delegates, including England, Italy and Russia. It was resolved to divide tho members into five committees to discuss the undertaking.
 Two Rotterdam trading companies with un- pronounceable names have failed, with total liabilities placed at nearly $4,000,000.
 The greater part of Lublin, a city of 20 900 inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been de- stroyed by fire.
 Switzerland has just had an election on the question of restoring capital punishment, the vote being l9l, l97 for to l77, ,273 against.
 The Ameer of Atghanistan has agreed to al of Englands propositions. Among the prin- cipal points of the agreement are the British command of the passes, with sufficient territory to constitute a scientific frontier, the appoint ment of a British resident at Cabul and the control of the foreign relations of Aighanistan.
 At a meeting of striking miners representing forty collieries, held at Consett, England, it was resolved to resume work.