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the shell room If the cruiser "AustlNlia" in
that port, ignited the %cahyns, a disaster being
only uNefted by the flooding OF the maya
zine.
London news reports that Sir Thomas
I1Pt0n, the we'll known tea merchant, is
capllaIizing his business Into a corporation
with Il capital fixed ri two million SlerIug.
In'elIig4nco from tome states that a II
reception on Wednesday in celebration Of
his eighty, eight bir hday The Pope. who ap
penred stlong and cheerful pr.resled against
the anti DEMONSTRATORS which had
taken place at his sacerdotal and poutitical
anniversaries.
Paris news reports that NJ. Zoln is unable
to succeed in engaging counsel for an APP
peal against tue sentence passed upon him.
1t is reported that six powers have made
bids for the slips now building in England
for the Gillian Government. Spain, it is
stated, has offered double their cost, but
has been unsuccessful up to the present in
obtaining them.
A despatch from the London correspondent
of the New York 'Sun" asserts that no con-
lrodiction of the statement published by
that paper regarding Cuban autonomy wide
bulletin 2ud inst.) is possible, adding that
the United States have informally declared
their Spanish policy throughout Europe with
ont el.ciling any objection, even hy France or
Austria.
Washington news states that Secretary
Longs declaration wide yesterdays b~ulletinl
has aroused such protests that Mr.. Alger,
Secretary for War, has explained that it does
not commit the administrator to p~rejudg-
ment either convicting or acquitting Spain
in anticipation of the courts report.
The T.. s.. ships Nashville" and Mont.
gomery' have been ordered to Mantanzas and
Sagua la Grande with cargoes Of charitable
supplies to relieve the distress existing there.
Havana news states that The arrival of The
"Vizcaya" there, caused great enthusiasm,
rockets and guns being fred from all parts Il
the city. The cruiser 'Almirunle Oquendo'
Is exp oted daily.
Telegroms from Shanghai received in Lon
don report that a United States squadron in
Guiding the cruisers "Olympia," Boston, "
Raleigh" Concord" and "Petrel" are
now concentrated ut Hongkong, with n view
to active operations against the Philippine
Islands, in the event Of war With Spain being
declared.
From Vienna it is reported that Prince
Philip of Sake Coburg and Gotha hos taken
the preliminary steps to obtain a divorce
from his wife Princess Louise, eldest daugh.
ter of King Leopold of Belgium.
Dispatches from Pekin announce that the
interest on the Anglo-German loan is at the
rate Of four and a half per cent, r%edeemabIe
in fortyIfye years, the contract price being
SO. Tie Pekiu correspondent Of he London
Times, referring TO the Loan contract,
states that it is purely commercial and free
from all political conditions and will be adj
vantageous to China as we'll as to Foreign
trade. The final Kiao Chou treaty has not
yet been signed.
London news announces that III the Houeo
Of Commons The Parliamentary Secretary Of
the Foreign Office, replying TO a question by
Sir Ashmead Bartlett, as to whether Russia
had occupied Deer Islam /, said that Russia
was understood to be treating with COrea for
a coal depot there, whore Japan has already
a similar privilege; nothing had, however,
been vet heard of a Russian occupation.
With regard to Port Arthur Mr.. Curzon
stated that no forts existed there now, and
that the Government were not aware Of any
Russian land forces being at that place.
Antigua, 4th.-Most severe and p~rotract-
ed shock earthquake experienced here at 8.25
am
st. Kits, 4th.-Slight shock earthquake
felt heIe at $40 am.
New York, March 4th.
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