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ent the Minister of Colonies holds only
f3,000,000 to keep the war going until
August, when it is estimated that it will
require Fl, ,000.0 monthly.
A large number of English Congrega-
tionalists are arranging TO join the Pill
grims" of that denomination who will
this summer make a tour of Great
Britain and the continent. Beside be-
ing received by the Archbishop of Can
terbury, the Bishop of Winchester will
invite them to luncheon, and similar in
vitations will be given by the Deans OF
Norwich and other Cathedral cities.
Strongly supported amendments to
the animal diseases bill which is now
before Parliament propose to exclude
Canada and New Zealand from the op-
erations of the measure.
Lord Salisbury has arrived at Nice
which will soon be diplomatic center
Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian EN-
bassador to France, Lord Dufferin, tbs
British ambassador, and the King OF
the Belgians will be at that city during
the next fortnight.
Herr Stockinger, recently Consul
General of Austria Hungary at London
who has been appointed in similar ca
pacity at New York, sailed to-day or
the American Line steamship ST. Pau
from Southampton.
ambassador Bayard will, on April
21st, preside and speak at the annual
Shakespeare celebration of the Bir-
mingham Dramatic Club. The next
day he will be a guest at a luncheon tt
be given by the Mayor of Birming CHAM
at the Council House. While in Bir-
mingham Mr.. Bayard will be the guest
of Consul Parker. On April 23d Mr.
Bayard will unveil the Shakespeare me-
mortal window in noly Trinity Church
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SITUATION VERY GRAVE.
CAPE TOWN, March 2S.-A dispatch
from Buluwayo says the situation is OF
the gravest character. There are 6
thousand women and children in the
place. The natives burned store
forty miles from Buluwayo on Thurs
day, and performed a dance around the
flames. Many murders of whites of the
most fiendish character are reported
1t is learned that the native police in
duced the Matabeles to revolt anG
joined them with 750 rifles and ammu-
milton.
MATABELE INSURRECTION.
CAPE TOWN, March 2S.-A force Of
British troops under command of Cap
tain Spreckeys defeated a large body
of Matabeles on Thursday, killing 6
large number The British lost no men
The rising of the natives in Matabele-
land is expected to be only momen-
tary difficulty. All the Matabeles, in
cluding the women, number only 150,-
600 The men were supposed to have
been disarmed after the defeat of theil
King, Lobengula, by the forces of the
British South Africa Company, but it is
suspected that they hid their weapons
instead of turning them over to the
company's officers.
Though the country is denuded OF
regular troops and the forces of the
chartered company are disorganized
owing to the recent raid into the Trans
vaal which resulted in most of the
company's officers being placed on tria
III London, a good voluntary force
armed with Lee Milford rifles and also
force of 1000 volunteer cavalry are
near the region where the uprising oc-
Cured
Buluwayo, the principal town of Mat
abeleland, is protected by a number ot
Maxim guns and few guns of heavier
caliber. There is plenty of ammunition
in the town. Though a massacre of set
tiers and miners is possible, the rising
will undoubtedly be quelled without ar
engagement sufficiently serious to be
called a battle