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STORIES oF TIE DAY
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 AIsaoaea # was expressly stipulated af fife rin1e when the eztzaditiOn Of Ar ten took place that there should be 10 attempt to tzy e 70 punish him for hls eor8rslieity Iu tas Panama scandals. ye5 inasmuch as he himself has now e1- pressed the desire t6 stand trial in con uection herewith, the English govern meut has waived its objections, and ac- oozdingly the preliminary hearing q this principal aetor 5n the Panama swindls has now begun. His object in asking Ho bs placed on trial is ay0wedly tG obtain the opportunity for revealing in court the names Of these 0f his fel- low cBIprits who promised to befrlend and shield him and who have neglected to fuIflI their engagements. France is therefore on the cTe Of a revival Of the Panama scandal. which threatens to be even still more fertile in sensational in- cjdents than were the earlier stages Of the affair.
 Italy has just enacted law providing for a scale of bounties which should bring joy and prosperity to her ship builders and shipowners. For every iron CT steel vessel built in an Italian yard the government will grant g eoBsnue- ton b8anty Of #15 8 ton, gross tonnage and 4 q ton fl the hull b. of wood. The navigation boHaties are equally munifcent. They are too complicated to give in detail here, but as a specimen Of their quality it may be mentioned that bounty Of 20 cents per ton. of gross tonnage, per ], 900 miles naYigat- cd is allowed during the first three years Of the ships age. h return for these navigation bounties steam vessels must carry gratis the royal mails.
 Although Earl Grey, Sir Frederick Darlington and Sir Richard Martin are the nominal heads Of the government Of Matabeleland and of the other Brit ish possessions in Africa to the north of Natal, 1t is manifestly Cecil Rhodes who, in spite of his absence of official status, is the autocrat of the entire coun. try, for all the treaties of peace recently negotiated with the native chiefs have been secured by him, and he is the one man of personal authority in the eoun- try. It is upon him that the natives look as the autocrat of South Africa, and in their expressive language they have likened him to the bull that sep. arates the fighting bulls, :" while they compare his chief lieutenant and Fidus Achates, John Colenbrander, to the tick bird, which in Africa alway: accompanies cattle and helps them tC get rid of ticks
 AAtP tA-FA DA iJOllCe O4 b6flIu HaS III Yited colleagues in the various citie. and towns of the German empire to take part in q meeting for the purpose of dis cussing the advisability of adopting the Bertillon method of identifying crimi nals by anthropometry.
 There is one institution in France which has hitherto oontrived to with stand all the numerous and revolution ary changes of goYernment-namely tn, Bank of France. which owes it's origin to the first Napoleon. The question a. to the renewal of it's charter has jus come up for discussion ill the legisIa ture, which has voted it's prolongation Since the foundation of the bank it ha, had but ten governors, while France has during the same period of time had no less than nine different regimes and considerably over q hundred cabinets.
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