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providing that vessels approaching each
other in fog shall slow down.
ARTHUR LAFERAsTRIE,d delegate from Hayti
to the International Congress. was presented
to Secretary Blaine and the President.
Foreign.

The closing OF the ParlS Exposition was
marked by brilliant fete. Four hundred
| thousand persons were present, the largest
attendance since the opening of the Ex-
addition.
IT is reported at Zanzibar that the Masais
or Sonalis have massacred DR.. Peters, the
| German African explorer, and his whole
| party except one European and one Somall,
who were wounded and who are now at
Ngao.
THF sum of 100000 was paid over by the
Prov .acial 60. ernment of Quebec to the
Jesuit Order in Canada, in consideration OF
The orders total and perpetual abandon
nent of claims to the estates which became
The property Of the Crown when the order
was suppressed nearly a century ago.
Tue American ship Cheseborough, Cap
ain Ericsson, from Hiogo for New York,
las been lost off the Northern coast of Japan.
Nineteen of her crew were drowned.
On the eve of his departure from Constan-
,inople for Berlin Count Herbert Bismarck
lad an audience with the Sultan, who prom
! sed to Germany and the Triple Alliance the
friendship of Turkey.
| AN explosion has occurred in a dynamite
factory near Bilboa, Spain. Four persons
we're killed and many were injured.
THE volcano Of Colima. Mexico. is in ac-
i've eruption. Many buildings in its vicin.
| ty have been thrown down, and for miles
around the forests are on fire.
PRINCESS MARIE, wife of Prince Alexan-
| ier of Battenberg, recently ruling Prince of
| Bulgaria, has died at Gratz Germany.
SIXTY prominent adherents of General
Boulanger have been holding conference at
his residence on the island Of Jersey.
DEav1sHEs on the warpath in Abyssinia
were defeated, three of their Chiefs being
! among the slain.
THE British cruiser Amphion, with the
Governor General of Canada on board, while
an route from Victoria, British Colombia, to
Esuuimault, struck rock and was seriously
injured.
The Budget Committee of the German
Reichstag has approved the scheme Of new
Colonial Department.
MANY notable men We're present at
banquet given in London in honor of T. L.
Bsrnum, the great Snowman.
THE first sod of the Nicaragua Canal was
formally turned AMID the booming of can
non and the cheers of thousands of spec
tatCrS.
THE French Government has prohibited
proposed Eoulangist demonstration.
AT public meeting in Sydney, Australia,
resolutions were adopted in favor of colonial
federation.
THE new Lord Mayor of London, Sir
Henry Aaron Isaacs, has been installed in
office with the usual show.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, son of the Prince
Of Wales, arrived in Bombay, India, and
was given an enthusiastic welcome
BISHOP O'DwYER, of Limerick, Ireland,
has issued a pastoral letter forbiddlng the
clergy of the diocese to grant absolution to
any person guilty Of boycotting or pursuing
the Plan of Campaign.
GREAT loss of life has been caused in China
by food in the Yang-tze Kiang River.
THE solar eclipse expedition has arrived
safely at St. Vincent, Cape de Verde Islands.
BARNUM's show opened in London in the
presence of &c, 600 spectators.
GENERAL CORONA, ex-Minister to SPAN
and Governor of the State of JalaSlco, I'D
Mexico. while on his way to a theatre ID
Guadalai lara, was stabbed to death by mad
man.
GENERAL BoULANGER has issued mani
festo" to the French people from the Isle of
Jersey.
GREAT distress exists in the Transvaal,
South Africa, resulting from drought and
famine. The situation was reported to be
critical at johannesburg, where breadstuts
were selling at famine prices
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, China, say
that the Emperor who married against his
will in obedience to his mother, now refuses
to see either his mother or his wife.
THE hands employed on the steam craft
on the Thames at London, and on the Clyde
at Glasgow, went on strike.
Mr.. CoNNERY, the representative in the
City of Mexico Of Thomas A. Edison, has
made a contract with the Mexican Govern
ment for the establishment of phono
graphic postal service.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR of Wales reviewed
1000 troops at Poonah, India, and afterwarc
visited the Rajah of Kolapore, and In tht
evening attended State ball.
NJ. DERoULEDE and other Boulangist:
were arrested for attempting demonstra
ton in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state that tn,
fortified camps of the Arabs in Usanbara ane
Usebara coast districts have BEEN stormet
by flying columns Of German soldiery ant
hostiles dispersed. :.