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The average annual cost of intoxicants per h«ad consumed by inmates of East Preston, Brighton, workhouse is 13s. 3$d. At a meeting of the guardians it was pointed out that this was three tira-es more than the amount consumed in any other workhouse or infirmary. The hyroscope may render useless torpedo boats and mines. Should the captain of a cruiser see the submarine prowler or projectile he could desroy. it before any damage was done. In navigation the instrument should also be ser- viceable as rocks and sandbanks will be clearly seen. During the course of this year the Indian Government will commence the manufacture of artillery ordnance under the new plan of making India self-contained for war purposes. The plant required for the ordnance factory at Cossipore for the manufacture of both light and heavy guns is now being sent out from England. The leading men of the Welsh Colony which has been so long established in Patagonia, and numbers 7,000 persons, have expressed the wish of the community to emigrate to Nova Scotia. Negotiations have been opened with the Halifax Board of Trade.

THE WAR I JAPANESE FORCES PAST THE PALISADES- The Tokio correspondent of the Times says official reports show that the Japanese forces have passed the Palisades, and are advancing with a wide front on both sides of the railway. The van was on Sunday 100 miles north of Mukden, and the Russians have been completely driven out of all the districts watered by the Liau. A St. Petersburgh correspondent repeats newspaper statements to the effect that the Japanese are advancing on Kirin. According to private reports, General Linievitch's army is continuing to retreat, the men suffering great privations. The mobilisation plans are for the present in abeyance. An authoritative statement has been published that 775,000 officers and men have been sent to Harbin since the outbreak of the war. With the troops previously in Manchuria, this makes a total of 832,000, while General Linievitch's present effective is estimated at from 250,000 to 350,000. I KUROKI'S ADV ANCE.-POSITION OF I VLADIVOSTOK. No attention need be paid to the rather wild reports from Russian sources that the army of General Kuroki is being detached from Marshal Oyama's forces to march upon Vladivostok. The immediate object of the Japanese field force in Manchuria is to crush the Russian army in front of it, and that can only be done by concentrating all the troops available for the purpose. If Vladivostok is to be invested, fresh troops will ioubtless be sent there by sea, and the intangible irmy of General Kawamura may eventually be discovered undertaking this task. There is still a belated Russian detachment re- treating from Shing-king northwards in the direc- tion of Kirin by a back road in the mountains, and this force must be pursued by the Japanese. In my case the army of General Kuroki advancing an the east side of the railway must eventually smbrace Kirin in its sweep northwards. But that loes not mean that General Kuroki is marching away from the Russian army in order to reach Vladivostok, which is much more easily approached hy sea. PEACE PROSPECTS. As for the prospects of peace, the Tokio cor- respondent of the Standard tells us that the Japanese attach very little importance to the rumours current throughout Europe. They are wisely concerned at present in prosecuting the war with uninterrupted vigour. All that can safely be predicated of the Government in St. Petersburg is that it is incapable at present of taking any decision whatsoever. AFTER MUKDEN. I BELEASE OF PRISONERS.—A SISTER OF MERCY'3 STORY. The following telegram, dated Tokio, Mon- day, has been received at the Japanese Legation in London:— "Of the Russian non-combatants, fallen into our hands at the battle of Mukden, the following were released: — "In front of our advance guard, forty-seven men ranking as officers, 359 men ranking as non commissioned officers, nine nurses, two priests, four merchants attached to the army. "Released, at their desire, in Chefoo or Shang- hai, twenty-three men ranking as officers, twenty-three nurses, 298 men ranking as non- commissioned officers." A telegram of Sunday's date from Gun-tzu- ling, which has reached St. Petersburg, says — "To-day was not disturbed by the slightest skirmish. A Sister of Mercy who has arrived from Mukden states that the Chinese have not killed anyone there. The Japanese, she adds, show great courtesy to the Russian doctors and sisters, and provided horses to enable them to return to the Russian army." ALL QUIET AT THE FRONT. General Linievitch, telegraphing to the Czar on Sunday, says that he received no report during the. night. The following unofficial telegram of Mon- day's date has been received from Sy-pin-gai: — "Our patrols approached the town of Chan- ta-fu and a volunteer who made his way into the ifown found it occupied by about two battalions of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry, while a iband of Chunchuses under Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers was bivouacking along the front of the army. "Our troops are in excellent spirits." PARIS REPORTS. J A telegram to the "Echo de Paris" from St. Petersburg says: — "General GrodekoS, who was directed to make an inquiry into the commissariat service, has presented his report, giving it as his opinion that the commissariat service is perfectly cap- able of feeding an army of 800,000 men. The report of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie- vitch is not expected for about ten days." The "Petit Parisien's" correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphs — Advices from Harbin state that the Japanese continue slowly to advance. General Kawa- mura's force has moved in the direction of Kirin. The Russian retreat is still most toilsome and dangerous. The commissariat and medical ser- vices are completely disorganised. Men who are sick or exhausted from fatigue have had to be abandoned for want of proper transport. It is probable that the Russian Army would not be able to resist any serious attack. AUSTRALIAN HORSES FOR THE JAPANESE. Eight steamers have been chartered by pri- vate firms at Sydney to convey to Hong Kong nearly ten thousand horses purchased on behalf of the Japanese Government. The first steamer sails in a fowfenight. JAPANESE CRUISERS AT LABUAN. SANDAKAN (British North Borneo), Thursday. (Delayed on Borneo Lines.) The Japanese cruisers Kasagi and Chitose, with the converted cruisers America-maru and Yamata-maru, arrived at Labuan on the 18th March. They left on the following day. Vice- Admiral Dewa is in command of the squadron. Passengers arriving at Mombasa by the Mes- sageries Maritimes Company's steamer report that thirty-four colliers were anchored at Jibutil on the 20th March, most of them being German vessels.

ONLY ORDINARY NOW. There ,are some farmers in South Lincoln- shire who have reason to regret their last season's speculations in fancy seed. potatoes. They are now receiving the supplies which they bought last year for forward delivery at the rate of £15 to 920 per ton. As too 4sawto variety of tubers are now obtainable at 40s,. to 50s. per ton, their anxiety to secure a strain of potatoes that last year sold at sensational prices will not prove very remunerative. One farmer has just received delivery of a lot which, costing him Y.600, can now be obtained1 for £100. Lait year the Northern Star variety, which sold for £ 200 per ton, has made an enormous drop to £2 per ton. It is still held, that the new types are fine disease resisters, and their yielding powers are unquestioned, but the faith of many growers has waned:, and with shaken confidence, the market has gone to pieces. It is now even said th-ait some of the new kinds that have been so greatly boomed are not a new potato at all, but a sport from an old! variety. Be this as it may, the slackening of the demand has deprived these fancy tubers of any exceptional I value, and they now rank with ordinary kinds. —

iNo Japanese ever sleeps with his head to the north. This is because the dead in Japan are always buried with their heads in-that position. In the sleeping rooms of many of the private houses and hotels1 a diagram of the points of the compass is posted upon the ceiling for the convenience of guests. Railway whistles inflict torture on so many people that the efforts abroad to check the plague will be followed with interest. Austria has introduced a system of dumb signalling to start and stop the traine. Belgium is trying compressed air whistl-m instead of steam, and Germany experiments with horns.

£ 10,000.000 GIFT. Chicago University is joyfully anticipating an endowment of £ 10,000,000—a sum that at 5 per cent, would yield the colossal income of £ 500,000 per annum. Only one man in the world could afford to make so vast a gift with- out inconvenience, and that man is Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate. Mr. Rockefeller, whose income is five or six millions a year, and who controls capital amounting to C400,000,000, has written a letter to the Chicago University Corporation in reference to the illness of the president, Mr. Harper, and he expresses the hope that the president's life may be spared to carry out his cherished idea. As Mr. Harper's "cherished idea" is the endowment of Chicago University with £ 10,000,000, the wording of the letter is taken by 1-te "New York Herald" to mean that Mr. Rockefeller to present that sum to the University. If the gift is actually made it will be by far the largest 'benefaction every made,-to any public purpose by a private citizen in any age or country.

The following are understood to have been soa, lected to accompany King Alfonso on his visit to London the Dukes of Alba, Santom-auro, and Sotomayor, General Rascaran, Colonel Milanodel Bosch San Roman, the Master of the Horse, and various other officers of the Royal household. The only female justice of peace in the United States, and probably in the world, is Mrs. Agnes Garrett, who has just assumed her official duties at Garrett, Wyoming. She was born at Birmingham, England, in 1863, and pro- ceed.ed to Wyoming in 1884, founding the town now named after her.

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I BARONESSES COMMIT SUICIDE. From Klagenfurt, in Austria, a remarkable tragedy is reported. Three sisters, the Baronesses Zinn von Zinnenburg, the last sur- vivors of a very old family, lived in great poverty, earning a scanty living by needlework. Their respective ages were seventy, sixty-four, and fifty-three. Recently the second sister died of consumption, and on the day of the funeral no entrance could be obtained into the room occupied by the surviving sisters. Finally the door was broken open, and it was discovered that 'both were dead from bullet wounds. A note left by the suicides explained that, in accordance with an oath made some time ago to the effect that -if one sister died the others would end their lives, they had committted suicide.

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I REBELLION IN CRETE. A serious outbreak has occurred in Crete, caused, it is said, by the absolutist methOd,13 of Prince George, the Ijigh Commissioner. There have been encounters with the gendarmes, and the rising is said to have been carefully pre- pared. The insurgents demand, a-mongist other thing,s Constitutional Government and the limitation of the High Commissioners autho- rity.

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TWO LINERS IN COLLISION. I A message from Halifax, Nova Scotia, says i the Allan liner Parisian collided with the Ham- ( burg steamer Albano while entering the harbour on Saturday afternoon. The collision occurred off Chebucto Head. The Parisian had stopped to take a, pilot on board. The Albano, coming from behind, struck her on the starboard side, about 30ft. from the stern. The Parisian im- mediately listed and began to leak. Consider- able alarm was felt by the thousand passengers on board. The captain at once drive the vessel full speed to the pier, which was four miles dis- I tant, and five pumps were set going to get rid of the water. It was kept under and the, vessel reached the pier safely. The Parisian was seri- ously damaged. The Albano's stem was bent and the forepeak stove in. She had on board 800 passengers. No lives were lost on either vessel, and no one suffered any injuries. The Parisian is a vessel of 5,400 tons, and the Albano of 3,700. A message received last even- ing states that the Parisian sank in dock during the night. Divers are now at work patching the hole in her hull in readiness for an attempt to refloat her. The Albano is being put into dry I dock for repairs.

LAST OF KABUL PRISONERS. I The death has just occurred at Brighton of the widow of Colonel Robert Waller, of the Bengal Horse Artillery. Mrs. Waller, who was eighty-two years of age, was the last of the J Kabul prisoners of 1842, having been taken I with Lady Sale and others. Her second child was born during her captivity.

ECHO OF A CRIME. I At an inquest at Fincliley on Saturday on the body of Ferdinand Muller, 63, who died suddenly in the garden of the house wh ere he was lodg- ing, it transpired that the deceased was the brother of a man who was executed nearly forty years ago for murdier. A man named Briggs was done to death in a train on the North London Railway. The murderer escaped in his victim's hat, and left his own behind, and thie led to his arrest in New York. The deceased took hi,s brother's crime very much to heart, and 00 eeems to have lived a, morose, unhappy life.

The latest in "tests" for drunkenness comes I from Leeds-, where it has been held that a defendant must have been drunk because he could not spell" Kuropatkin," or add up some sums correctly. The twenty large diamonds in the British Crown are worth £ 1,500 apiece, and the two centre diamonds £2,000 each. The value of all the gems in the Crown is at least £ 100,000.

THE QUEEN'S TRIP. PRINCESS VICTORIA SLIGHTLY INDISPOSED. Queen Alexandra left Lisbon for Cadiz, to visit the Countess of Paris, at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon on board the Victoria and Albert. The same honours were rendered Her Majesty as on her arrival. King Carlos and the Crown Prince went on board to bid Her Majesty farewell, while Queen Anielia and Queen Pia, the Duke of Oporto, the Court dignitaries and the Ministers assembled to take their leave in the marquee erected on the quay. A huge crowd cheered their Majesties as they drove down to the yacht. A torpedo flotilla sailed from Gibraltar for Cadiz to act as escort to Queen Alexandra. Queen Alexandra arrived at Villamanrique on Sunday. As the Queen passed through Xeres, on her way to Villamanrique, she was met at the station by the local authorities and the British colony. No military honours were rendered, only a detachment of the civil guard being lined up on the platform. The daughters of the British Vice-Consul offered a bouquet to the Queen. Princess Victoria did not accompany the Queen and Prince and Princess Charles to Villamanrique,. but remained on board the Victoria and Albert at Cadiz, owing to a slight indisposition. After the departure of the Queen, a British torpedo boat arrived from Gibraltar, bringing despatches, which were handed to the com- mander of the Royal yacht. The torpedo boat left again immediately. I THE VISIT TO GIBRALTAR. The Queen arrived at Gibraltar on Tuesday afternoon. Her Majesty's visit was of a purely private character. PRINCESS VICTORIA'S HEALTH. Concerning reports that Princess Victoria has been prevented by indisposition from joining the Queen on some of her inland excursions in the Peninsula, it is officially declared that, except to the extent that the Princess is recovering from an illness and an operation, there is no vestige of truth in the statement of her indisposition. It was never intended that she should leave the yacht to join the Queen in these excursions, and the pre- arranged programme has simply been adhered to.

There is a million of money in Chancery wait- ing to be claimed by its rightful owners. It ranges from C50 upwards, and is credited to about 3,000 persons. One-half of the accounts do not exceed £ 150 in value, and only about one- twentieth exceed £ 1,000. The Anglo-German East Africa Boundary Commission, which commenced its work some two years ago on the Victoria Nyanza, had com- pleted by the beginning of February the delimi- tation of the boundary as far as the Great Rift Valley and was rapidly drawing to the con- elusion of its labours.

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Russia's Dreadful State I "MAXIM GORKY'S CASE. TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. I Maxim Gorky is to be tried in the middle of May, with closed doors and without a jury, on a charge of composing a document inciting to sedition. The document Was never put into circulation, but Gorky does not deny i.ts author- ship. His friends assert that it was merely a record of his personal impressions of the events of Sunday, January 22. Maxim Gorky, who is residing at present in the neighbourhood of Riga, is completely broken in health. The highest penalty for the offence with which he- is charged is three years' detention in a ( fortress. MORE BOMB OUTRAGES. I The reactionary party in St. Petersburg are making capital out of the fact that the Moscow Zemstvo delegation failed to obtain a personal inter-view with the Minister of the Interior. A St. Petersburg correspondent says this was due to a regrettable misunderstanding, but that M. Buliguine assured the Duma delegation that the ZemstvolSl and Dumas would be represented on his commission. This precludes the bureaucratic shelving of the Czar's rescript. M. Witte's pro- posal to abolish the Committee of Ministers has been rejected by the Council of Ministers, as they realised that its adoption would involve the advent, of M. Witte to the position of Prime Minister. The strike movement is again spread- ing in St. Petersburg, and reports from various districts indicate a continuance of the agrarian agitation among the peasants. Two serious bomb outrages have occurred in Warsaw. ANARCHY AT YALTA. I THE TOWN IN FLAMES. I The disturbances at Yalta began at nine o'clock on Sunday evening, when the town was fired in five places. The crowd obstructed any attempt to extinguish the flames. All the police-stations were wrecked and the prisoners liberated. An attempt to sack the municipal treasury was prevented. Three more companies of troops have been sent from Sebastopol to Yalta to-day, in addition to the three despatched on Sunday night, and a squadron of cavalry has been despatched from Simferopol. Warships are also being sent to Yalta. The chief of police has been wounded. A later despatch from Yalta says The disorders here are increasing, and since this morning the greatest excitement prevails. Nearly all the warehouses in the town, the vodka stores and the police-station have been destroyed, and a number of shops have been set on fire. The arrival of troops is momentarily expected. Military guards are stationed at the post office and treasury buildings. An extraordinary sitting of the Town Council has been summoned to deal with the disturbances." THE WARSAW BOMB OUTRAGE. 1 The author of the bomb outrage at the Praga. Police-station in Warsaw has been identified as a locksmith named Stephen Okrjeia, a resident of the Novominsk district. He is 18 years of age. It appears that Baron Nolken owes his life to the bad aim of his assailant, who threw the bomb behind the cab instead of underneath it. The force of the explosion was very great; many windows in the neighbourhood were shattered. Baron Nolken's body is full of innumerable splinters of the bomb. The police have not yet succeeded in arresting the criminal. The man who threw the bomb at the Praga Police-station is reported to be dying. He was injured by a frag- ment of his bomb, in addition to the wounds inflicted on him by the policeman who shot at him. Great excitement prevails in Warsaw. It is anticipated that the authorities will adopt stern repressive measures. A REVOLUTIONARY PLOT. The "Echo de Paris" reports that in conse- quence of the discovery in Paris of a plot having for its object the creation of a new revolutionary movement in Russia, ten police commissioners on Saturday made searches here at the residences of about twenty persons and seized a voluminous J correspondence and documents apparently of some importance. The Russian refugees who started the plot had correspondents in various towns of Europe, where searches were made simultaneously with those conducted in Paris.

I MURDERER REPRIEVED. George Huxham, a native of Plymouth, who was recently sentenced to death for the murder Jf a woman named Hannah Williams, 71 years of age, at Birkenhead, is not to die. The death sentence has been respited with a view of its commutation to penal servitude for life.

COST OF POOR RELIEF. A LARGE INCREASE. Another official return relating to poor law relief in England and Wales was issued on Satur- day by the Local Government Board. In con- tinuation of a series, it gives the amount expended during the half-year ended at Michaelmas, 1904, and from this we compile the following table, the figures, of course, being for the period named: r. _n.o Estimated population Spent in maintenance Ditto-rate per head on population. LLGD. Spent on outdoor relief £ 1,539,646 Ditto-rate per head on population. lid. Total of relief i imj Rate per head on population Is. lU^d. Number of persons relieved 754,045 IICompared. with the preceding half-year, the expenditure increased by £ 87,052, or 2.9 per cent., while the number relieved was greater by 27,804, or 3.8 per cent. In London the total expenditure in maintenance and outdoor relief together for the half-year was higher than in any other county, and L;,worked out at 2s. llfd. per head on population.

I FAMOUS ACTOR DEAD. Maurice Barrymore, the famous actor and playwright, died last week-end at the private asylum for the insane at Amityville, near New York, where, he had been a patient since the spring of 1901, when he suddenly became insane while performing for a charity at the Lion Palace Music Hall.

Fourteen calves, 240 fowls, and; 22Q g^0?1 wine were consumed recently at 9- feast of Johan Schulz, a wealthy farmer of Hidiegkut, Hungary. It may not be generally known that when- ever the King ordem his Court to go into mourning King's counsel are under a distinct r, obligation to obey His coxmamd.

.n- FOUNDERS WITHIN SIGHT OF A CROWD. A collision occurred on Sunday morning fa*, broad daylight and brilliant weather off Dunge- ness, about two miles south of the lighthouse between the steamer Baroda, of Liverpool, and' the schooner Patrician, of Drogheda. The latter was very severely damaged amidships and sank about half an hour later. No lives were lost, the schooner's crew being taken off by the Baroda. They were afterwards trans- ferred to the tug Dilwara and taken to Dover. The foundering of the schooner was witnessed from the shore by large crowds.

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A WELSH TRIBUTE TO "MABON." On Saturday afternoon at Cardiff Town Hall Mr. W. Abraham, M.P. ("Mabon"), was the re- cipient of a cheque for £ 1,750, as a token of the respect in which he is held in Wales. Sir John Llewellyn, who presided, istated that the testi- monial was of a national character, to which nearly 700 people had, subscribed, representing; all creeds, politics, and classes in. Wales. testimonial was presented by Sir Alfred Thomas, M.P., who reoo a letter from Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P., who characterised Mabon as being "as true as steel and better than gold." Judge Gwilym Williams presented Mabon with a silver salver in an oak case, valued at £ 50.

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