, 1908-05-20

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bomb. but a cart passing exploded it, den O.
fishing the cart and wounding four natives.
This Is the fifth similar attempt within five
months.
Mr. Bowerman, the Labourite member for
Deptford, has given notice that he will ask
Mr.. Churchill, the president of the board Of
trade, what steps are proposed to be taken
against Messrs Armour of Chicago retailing
meat IN London and issuing one million
pounds of new capital for the purpose of
competing against British butchers. A
Chicago telegram states that Mr.. Armour, o
director, in an interview has declared there
is no foundation for the statement,as Messrs
Armour do not retail anywhere.
An article in the Nation relates an anecdote
illustrating the late Sir Henry. Campbell Ban
nerman's Irish sympathies: Mr.. Asquith had
refused Mr.. Redmond's request to postpone
the date for the Home Rule debate, where
upon Sir Henry declared he would leave his
sick bed at whatever cost to himself,
to support the bill in the absence Of
the Irish speakers. Mr.. Asquith then post
poned it, and this explained the alteration Of
dates,
A telegram from Sydncy,Now South Wales,
states that Mr.. Deakin, the Australian Prem
ier, answering Cardinal Logue, the Arch
bishop of Armagh, declared he was incorrect
in saying Australians were d~is'oyal, and the
comforting of autonomy had drawn the
Commonwealth and the Motherland clos
er instead of sundering them. Cardi-
nal Moran, the Archbishop of Sydney,
said that the freedom Australia enjoys is the
mainstay of the empires strength the i'm
perial flag is honoured as no flag has been
since that Of early Rome; colonial loyalty 81
proverbial, and only fools are d~isloyal,
A Paris despatch says that NJ. Claude
Monet, the artist, has destroyed paintings
valued at twenty thousand pounds, repre-
senting three years labour, which he was
preparing for exhibition. 1t the last mo-
ment before tho opening of the doors, dis
couraged by such an unfit representation of
his genius, he cut the canvases, and painted
over others, Others of his works are selling for
between one and two thousand pounds each.
France has accepted the proposal of the
United States Government to hold an inter
national conference at Shanghai about New
Year 1909 regarding the repression of opium
culture in assistance with Chinu's efforts to
stop the trade.
A German torpedo boat has taken into
Cuxhaven the British steam fishing boat
Taurus, Of Grim8by, detected fishing near
Amrum Island.
A despatch from Algiers states that the
French have lost thirteen killed and sixty five
wounded in an engagement with fa%natical
Arabs. The latter's losses were very heavy, and
their stronghold, Bondenib, was bombarded
after an all day battle.
The japanese elections are unprecedented;
there is no excitement The results are
unknown.
Toronto, May 1Gth-Nfiss Clara Mortin
will oppose the Hon. A. r. Pyne, member Of
the Legislative Assembly for East Toronto,
mud Minister of Education for Ontario Miss
Martin is Canada'5 first woman lawyer, and
hopes to be its first woman member of the
House of Commons; she is now a member Of
the Toronto Board of Education.
Trinidad, 16th.-Dutch cruiser Gelderland
left for Surinam $50 am,
London, May 18th-Fhe race for the
Great Jubilee handicap at Kempton Park, Sa-
turday, resulted as follow Mr.. Basset's Hay
den first, Mr., Clark's All Black second, MIR.
Faber's Malua third.
Jay Gould beat Eustace Miles by three
sets to one, or nineteen games to nine, thus
thus retaining the British amateur cham
p~ionship. Miles conceded Gould's superiori-
tY.
The first session of The Court of Criminal
appeal has released a man convicted of pass,
ing counterfeit money, on the ground that
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