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I CHILD POISONED BY RUM. I The case of a three-year-old child, poisoned by alcohol acid, was investigated by the Ports- mouth coroner on Monday. The father, a naval instructor, who lives at Fratton, on Saturday morning placed a glass of rum and milk on a table beside the bed of his wife, who was not well; and while she was asleep the little boy entered the room and drank the contents of the glass. He became stupefied at once, and soon lost consciousness, dying later in the day from coma.

I MOTORIST FINED. I Mr. Fred T. Jane, the naval writer, was fined ten shillings at Fareham on Monday, for driving a motor-car without a rear light at Cosh-am on August 8. He was also summoned for driving recklessly. The defendant said he had just. previously warned la, reckless motorist. He belonged to the Moderate Driving Association, which tried to induce reckless drivers to mend their ways. He considered his speed was six miles an hour. The case was dismissed.

I MANX BIRTH RATE. I The disquieting aspect of the marriage and birth rates in England also characterises the returns relating to the Isle of Man published on Monday. The births during the twelve months under review numbered 1,190, as against 1,515 nine years ago. The number of marriages has fallen from 411 to 308. On the other hand ie death rate has also decreased.

ALIEN IHMIGBATION QUESTION SOLVED. Kill them. Bugs, Fleas, Moths, and Beetles will not worry you if you use Keating's Powcler. It kills them. Also Nits in children's hair. Flies and Wasps easily exterminated by sprinkling Keat- ing on the window ledges. Sold everywhere. None genuine without the signature. Tins, 3d., 6d., and Is. Bellows 9d. Thomas Keating, Chemist, London. A coal firm, having an Irishman to look after the yard, decided to discharge him because his stupidity entailed much annoyance and loss of time to the firm. Pat was called into the office and told this, one of the partners remarking that Pat had actually learned nothing since 0(3 entering upon his duties, upon which Pat re- torted "Wan thing I have learned I nivver knew before." "What is that?" asked the part- ner. That siventeen hundred makes a ton" replied Pat. He was not discharged.

LORD CURZON RESIGNS. I HIS SUCCESSOR APPOINTED. I Lord Curzon has resigned his position is I Viceroy of India, and the Earl of Minto, for- merly Governor-General of Canada, lias been appointed in his place. The crisis arose through Lord Curzon recom- mending Major-General Sir E. Barrow, at present commanding the Peshawur division, as the first Military Supply Member of the Council under the new scheme. Mr. Brodrick and the British Cabinet refused to accept Sir E. Barrow, and after a rather heated exclia ige of telegnains Lord Curzon asked Mr. Brodri -k to •place his resignation in the hands of the King. This decision was come to on August b, and confirmed in a telegram of August 12. The secret of Lord Curzon's resignation is, of course, to be found in the difference which has for some time existed between the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Kitchener. Lord Kitchener passed a sweeping judgment on the system of dual control in Army organisa- tion, and complained that the Military Member of Council was really omnipotent in military matters, while the Commander-in-Chief was nominally responsible. He proposed ian exten- sive series of changes., the effect of which was to emancipate the Commander-in-Chief and his Staff in purely military matters. Lord Curzon and Sir Edmond Elles, the. then Military Member, traversed Lord Kitchener's statement, and were generally supported by the public opinion of India. The Home Government adopted a compromise between the two extreme views, but on the whole- adopted the opinions of Lord Kitchener, and Sir Edmond Ellea took this eo much to (heart that he resigned last May. The Government's decision was that the only power to veto Lord Kitchener's demands should rest with the Governor-General in Council. There would still be a Military Member, but his functions would be essentially those. of an administrator, and he would be known the Military Supply Member. The other functions of the Military Member were to be vested in the Commander-in-Chief. Lord Curzon, while patently disagreeing with these views, .agreed to put them into execution. The rejection of his nomination of the Military Supply Member, however, was the final blow to his offended pride, and the result is that India will lose a Vicesoy of the highest ability. INDIA'S REGRET. A Reuter's telegram from Simla states that unanimous sympathy is expressed with the Viceroy, who for eight weeks has really been confined to- his bed, and the regret at his resignation is universal. 0

WORKER'S FEARFUL DEATH. One man was killed and another terribly in- jured by being immersed in a solution of caustic soda at the Whilto Ash Paper Works of Messrs. Peebles and Co., Accrington, on Saturday. About 5.30 p.m. John Hindle and John Winterbotiom were to have cleaned out the boiler in which the liquid was prepared. Some time before that, under the impression that the boiler was already empty, they opened a door at its base, and the seething liquid gushed forth. The men made' a terrified rush, but Hindle tripped and fell full length, being totally im- mersed. Their shouts soon brought assistance, but the burning properties of the caustic so-da had caused dreadful injuries, the men's skin coming away with their clothing. Some of the liquid had got into Hindle's eyes and throat, and after lingering in agony he died in hospital on Sunday. Winterbottom was badly burned about the legs.

—————— GIRL CHEWS PINS AND NEEDLES. Mary Hannah Bryant, aged fourteen, was rharged at Pontypool on Saturday with doing damage to a window at the local workhouse. It was then stated that she has developed an extraordinary habit of chewing pine and needles, and since her return from Llantriseant, near Cardiff, to the Pontypool Workhouse, a large number of these articles have been taken from her mouth. She was sent from the workhouse to service in a clergyman's family at Abergavenny, and whilst there she took to chewing candles- On account of this remarkable mania and her general unruly conduct the girl, who is an orphan, was brought back to the house aa in- corrigible. She was sent to a reformatory for three years.

OUT OF DATE THROUGH SLEEP. Joshua Rhyder was summoned at Stratford Police-courl on Saturday for travelling on the Great Eastern Railway without having paid his fare. At ten minutes to one o'clock on the morning of Julv 27 he was found on a platform of Liverpool-street Station, and on producing a return half workman's ticket from Liverpool- street to St. James's-street was told that the ticket was not available after 12.30. Defendant got on the train without getting a new ticket, and he now pleaded that he had no mODley to buy another ticket. The Bench said it was an unfortunate but not a bad case, and defendant would pay the costs -4s.

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I BURNT FINGER CAUSES DEATH. An unusual case came before the Battersea coroner on Monday. About two weeks ago a man struck a match to light his pipe and accidentally burnt his finger. A wound was caused and after a few days he was admitted to the St. John's-hill Infirmary, where he was found to be suffering from blood-poisoning. He gradually got worse and died. The medical evidence showed that death was due to blood-poisoning set up by the wound on the finger. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

TREASURE HUNT IN WALES. The medical officer for Merthyr, in liis report on the sanitary condition of Merthyr (which wlll form the subject of a Local Government Board investigation next week), calls attention to the high death rate in 1904, and, alluding to the figures for January, points out that it was the month of the hidden treasure craze. "WheDl it is remembered," he states, "how women with babies in their arms were exposed to the vicis- situdes of the weather in the search for money,, no surprise need be felt at the abnormal in- cidence of long disease amojng infants."

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I TEN THOUSAND OFFERS. Madame Hofer, who won £ 40,0C0 in the Pres lottery, at Paris, has received! 10,000 letters, most, of which contains offers of marriage. Magistrates, noblemen of long pedigree, men, of vie, with one another in seeking the- hand of the ex-canteen barmaid. Madame Hofer has taken a. flat in Paris, !but dare not disclose her address., for fear of the stream of money-hunters, ancl she looks forward' to the October lottery to free her from -these unwelcoxae attentions, which will then, become the portion of the next winner.

Mr. G. Pierce, of Temple End, Highte Wycombe, has growing in his garden some ex- traordinary runner beans, the longest of which measures 26 inches while otliersi range from* 10 to 30 inches. They have been grown froino special in excellent soil. At an inquest on Simon Solomon, 64, wio, died in St. Giles Workhouse, a relative stated; that deceacod was a clever artist, and but for drink might have done well in life. Medical' evidence showed that tbe cause of death was syncope from sudden heart failure whilst suffer- ing from disease of the heart.

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Military and Naval. Over 50 per cent, of the Manchester lads who offer themselves for enlistment are rejected as unfit. Field-Marshal Sir George White, V.C., will vieit Liverpool on September 9 to unveil a memorial to members of the Liverpool Eegiment (The King's) who fell in the South African, Burma, and Afghanistan campaigns. In order to ensure uniformity and simplicity in keeping the accounts of officers' me&ses, the Armv Council has approved a set of books for the purpose, which are to be taken into bv all units on January 1, 1907, or before that. date if the books now in use are completed earlier. The first-class cruiser Powerful is to relieve the cruiser Euryalus ae the flagship on the Australian station. A force of 1000 soldiers, now encamped at Magilligan in Ulster, are unable to return to their barracks in Derry as there is no water available for them there. Owing to the pre- vailing drought a large factory in the same city lias had to be temporarily "shut down." Commercial and Industrial A Lancashire eyndicate proposes to ereet largo cotton mills in the Cheshire town of Macclesfield, for generations the centre of the English silk trade. Every year the American meat trade at Birkenhead increases, and it has now attained enormous proportions involving £ 15,000,000 per annum. Music and the Drama. As usual, the Queen's Hall will be the centre of musical activity in London throughout the autumn and inter. The symphony concerts will be inaugurated on November 4, and the Sun- day afternoon concerts on October 1. It has been decided to hold a Schumann festi- "Val at Bonn nest year. The festival, which will last three days, is to be on a grand scale. Dr. Joachim, who directed a Schumann festival in 1873, and Herr Grater will be the conductors. Mr. (Jiiarles A. E. Harris, who was instru- mental in organising the British festival con- certs in Canada. during the spring of 1903, which Sir Alexander Mackenzie conducted, is now on a short visit to this country with the object of arranging a Canadian festival to take place in London next May. During the coming twelve months the future of such houses as the Strand, the Royalty, the Avenue, the Shaftesbury seems less definite than one would wish it to be. Mr. Waller will shortlv resume operations at the Imperial, where the strength of his personality has already been the means of securing several notable successes. General. General Booth continuing his tour in Scot- land, on Monday addressed the prisoners in Ayr County Gaol. He urged his hearers to reform, ■and assured them of the assistance of the Sal- vation Army when they were released. Operatives of Lancashire are, at present en- gaged in enjoying their annual holidays, made ffehe more delightful by the settlement of the wages dispute. In the last few days from one district 200,000 people have, been pleasuring. The death has taken place at Carleton Fore- see, Norfolk, of Jacob at the age of 94. He held a notable record for long service. At the age of seven he began work on the Kimberley estate, and for eighty years kept in harness, ,regularly drawing his wages each week during that long period. King Edward, t-hrougih Lord Knollys, has sent his congratulations to Henry Johnson, a Grant- ham veteran nearly ninety-nine, years old, who, when before the public as an acrobat, gave ex- hibitions before George IV., the late Queen Victoria as a girl, and King Edward himself when Prince of Wales. A Welsh vicar at Bangor protests against Wales being made the dumping-ground for English ,clerical mediocrity, and appeals to his eountry- onen to .stop the "alien immigration. After an absence of seven years the curious phenomenon known as the "Floating Island," (measuring 80 yards by 15 yards., has made its appearance on Lake Derwentwater. Vegetable gases, scientists, explain, lead to the periodical rising of the island, which generally remains visible for six or seven weeks. A navvy and his wife have lived for four years in a cave cut out of a bank of earth near the Grand Junction Canal at Greenford1. It is covered in with ragged clothes and rotting planks. Triplets have been born to the wife of a Suffolk labourer, John Flatt, of Stradbroke. Anotlier valuable coalfield has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Tranent, Haddington- shire. o Great Britain's yearly imports of flowers, fruit, andi vegetables are valued at over £3,500,000, apples alone accounting for £ 2,000,000. A speaker at the North-East Lancashire Con- ference of Women's Co-operative Guilds said she had been told by a nurse that the number of "whisky babies" in workhouses was appall- ing. The attendants, she said, had the utmost -difficulty in getting them to take food unless it tasted of whisky. A lobster 3ft. 4in. in length has been caught in the old harbour at Torquay. Mr. Bernard Kilkeary, formerly of the 43rd Foot, one of the few survivors of the Birken- head, has been presented with the Meritorious Service Medal. He was instrumental in saving ,a, number of women and children from the "wreck. An alarming outbreak of fire occurred on a Brazilian training-ship anchored in Plymouth (Sound. Difficulty was experienced in prevent- ing the flames from reaching the powder mmgazine. There was a great exodus from Lancashire clowns on Saturday, when thousands of mill nvorkers left on holidays with approximately 100,000. The famous Yarmouth windmill, which was built nearly a century ago at a cost of Elo,ooo, Sias just been sold for £ 100. It is the highest "windmill in England, and stands 120ft. high. T'lie building is of brick and timber, and has tibeen a noted landmark for vessels in the North Sea. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter addressed to the diocesan Clergy and laitv on the subject of the recent changes in the area, of the "now dimifaishedl and impoverished ■diocese of Canterbury," says it is startling to discover how small in proportion to the popula- tion is the number of individuals, who are contributing to various branches of diocesan 'work. The generous concessions, which are made to the Bible Society by the Government and private railways in Russia, can show no equal in any other country. The number of railway jnilea'put at the Society's disposal in the Empire of the Czar. without charge for travelling or freight, amounts to no less than aquarr "of a million. Damage to the extent of £ 6,000 was caused an outbreak of fire in one of the paddocks in the grounds of the Royal Dublin Society's Horse show at Ballsbridge on Saturday. The s -f cpening of the show was not affected. The s wee pines- in the gold and silver rooms of the Royal Mint last year realised nearly £ 1.200, or an average of £ 25 a week. A curious study in nomenclature is afforded 11y the announcement of a double wedding last week at Stockton. A Mr. Pretty married a 31:68 Smart, and a Mr. Bigge married a Miss Smaull. Accidents and Offences. A motor tri-car the brakes of which failed to act, dashed into'Lord Willoughby de Broke's .bunting stud at Edge-hill on Monday. Several of the grooms and horses were injured. Mr. William Carhnge, aged 71. for 40 years one of the most respected residents of High- ,to-%v- Manchester, was found dead, in 3in. of mud, at a claypit. It is thought that he was suffocated. A cyclist named I nomas Rcseall, of Great Eccleston has been killed in a collision with an electric tramcar near Blackpool. During a yacht race at Burnham-on-Crouch one of the. contestants, the Leda, capsized in a heavy squall, and sank at the lower part of Burnham Reach. The occupants were saved. A series of disasters occurred at Hastings Re- gatta, owing to the rough sea, two boats were capsized, and a third sank, but, fortunately, there was no loss of life. John Belts, aged 51, of Baeup, opened a carriage door on the railway between Lincoln and Saxilby, on Saturday, and fell out, sustain- ing such injuries that he died on the- way to Lincoln Hospital. Deceased was travelling with some friends for a. holiday at Yarmouth when the accident occurred. Mr. Justice Rose, of the Irish Bench, was accidentally shot in the hand while out shooting near Ballygawley, Co-. Tyrone. The shots came from the gun of a. local magistrate, who- formed one of a shooting party. The judge had a narrow escape, as some of the pellets grazed his chin. Diving from a groyne at Southend on Sunday, Frederick Smith, aged thirteen, a London visitor, struck his head on a broken bottle wnich "pene- trated his skull. He was removed to the hospi- tal in a serious condition. A gang of burglars stole between £ 1000 and £ 2000 worth of jewellery from a shop in Croy- don High-street on Saturday. Cases in the Courts. At the Bromley (Kent) Police-court on Mon- day it was stated that Edward Harris, who was charged with being a suspected porsu^, had upon 11 w him ""when arras-ted a quantity of burglars' tools and a. Prayer-book. "If a man hears cries of 'Murder,' he is justi- fied in breaking down a door and interfering," said 1'116 magistrate at North London to John Langley, who complained of the interference of two men lie was charged with assaulting. Sir Julius Wernher and three other persons were fined at Marlborough-etreet, on Monday, for allowing their motor-care to smoke in the streets. When Edwin Chicken, a farm labourer, of Chelmsford, was asked at West Ham Police- court on Monday if he was prepared to pay £ 251, arrears of maintenance to his wife, he laughed, and said he only earned his board and lodging with his father. He was sent to prison for two months. On a charge of stealing postal orders from letters which he had to deal with in the General Post Office, Henry James Cam-field, porter, was remanded at Bow-street on Monday. Sarah Ann Millson, a widow, whose hus- band was buried on Saturday, was fined 10s. 6d. at the Thames Police-court on Monday ior dancing in the street on Saturday night. from Other Lands. Arthur Jolly, a chauffeur, of London, and another chauffeur, from Paris, have been drowned while boating on Lake Zuerich. Fourteen passengers were injured in a railway collision in Rochefort Station, France, on Monday. Prominent re-formers have been arrested in St. Petersburg for assembling to discuss the Czar's "act of grace." As the result of a collision between a goods train and a tramcar at Butte, Montana, nine people were killed and twenty others more or less seriously injured, Acollis-ion occurred on Monday between two trains in the station at Roehefort-sur-Mer. Four- teen persons were injured, two seriously. The carriages were destroyed. The accident, it is said, was due to a signal mistake. Herr Pickelmayr, an engineer, has been killed by a fall from the Langkofel, in the Groeden Dolomites. Great alarm has been created at Y-ildiz Kiosk by thebomlb discoveries at Smyrna, and arrests of Armenians continue to be made. The Czar's scheme for. a Parliament bns not been received with enthusiasm in St. Petersburg. At Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris, an engi- neer killed his wife and three sons and took his own life. Poverty is believed to have been the cause of the crime. A Parisian bank clerk has obtained £ 40,000 by ingenious frauds, and has lied in a private yacht. The War Department of the United States propose to increase their standing army from 60,000 to 250,000 men. Mr. John K. Carthew, the well-known grain expert, estimates an increase of 12,000,000 quarters in the world's supply of grain this year. The Shah, who has visited Buffalo Bill's show at Vichy, says it is far better than grand opera. The French War Department is experiment- ing with a machine gun which is to fire S00 bullets in less than a second. The Bishop of Malaga, while visiting a monas- tery at Ghent, went to bed with the gas turned on, .and was found dead next morning. At Romny, in Russia, the Jewish population, resenting the performance of The Merchant of Venice," boycotted the local theatre at which the piece was produced. Vincent F. Walsh, the son of Mr. Thomas P. Walsh, the mining multi-millionaire, was killed in a motor-car accident at Newport (R.I.) on Saturday. The car plunged over a bridge into the water. A moneyleader of Naples committed suicide and left his fortune for the building of a hos- pital for incurables. I obtained 11 my morev from the rich," he wrote, "and they wrenched it from the poor, to whom it now returns." Inquests. Having been recently left a legacy of £500, Mary Ahern, 45, the widow of a 'bus driver, contracted intemperate habits. At the inquest on Monday a witness stated that the deceased between Tuesday and ay last week spent no lees than £3 in drink. The jury came to the conclusion that death was due to heart disease accelerated by excessive alcoholism. An inquest was held on Monday at Peter- borough on Stanley Tunnicliffe. aged ten, of Peterborough, who was drowned in the River Nene while baching on Saturday. Tunnicliffe was seized with cranip at a dangerous spot in the river, .and four minutes elapsed before Signal- man Fox was able to recover the body from a hole. A verdict of "Accidental deatli" was re- turned. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned at an inquest held at St. Pancra-s on Monday on Robert Olley, cabmai, who was recently thrown from, his cab in Pall-mall and fell under the horeo of a luggage van. At an. inquest on an infant who died in Hoilowiay Prison, where its mother is under- going sentence, Dr. Fullerton stated on Satur- day that the crust of 'the earth was hottest in August and September, during which time it was bad for young children. At the inquest on the body of Thomas Samuel Mercer, of St. John-street, Ckrkenwell, which was recently washed up on the beach at Yar- mouth, it was shown that. he had been in financial difficulties, and a verdict- of "Suicide while temporarily insane," was returned. Tragedies and Disasters. The body of a man was found on Monday in Loch Eil, opposite Annant. It was identified as that of William Clinie, a native of Inverness, who, with Hector Munro, of Ivergordon, went (boating five weeks ago from Fortwilliam and dis- appeared. 0 At Workington on Monday night a young man returned home under the influence of drink and savagely attacked his wife with a knife, afterwards attempting to swallow carbolic acid. William Phillips, a farm labourer, was killed by a train near Stockbridge on Sunday, at the c e' very spot where two weeks ago he found the decapitated body of a man, who had committed suicide. When Alfred C. Howard was sent for tr1f,1 at Enfield charged with stealing lead piping from an empty house, he said, "I noticed the front door open for four or five days and at lat. I gave way to the temptation and went in." -John Tomlinson, aged thirty-six, of Hill- street, Stockport, a railway shunter, marrieii, with three children, was drowned, on Sunday, whilst bathing in the River Weaver, Northwich. Declaring he could swim, he dived in near the Salt Works. He sank immediately. His com- panion. Thomas Johnson, leaped in after him, and had a narrow escape. The name of the young gentleman drowned whilst bathing at Talland Sands, near Looe, Cornwall, was James Edwin Sheeres, aged nineteen, solicitor's clerk, of East Dulwich- grove, London, and pot Macpherson as at first reported. Isabella Butler, thirty-five, wife of a plater's helper at Jarrow, was drowned in the Tyns on Saturday, her body being afterwards re- covered near to Jarrow landing pier. George Mell, a foreman ferryman at Howden- dyke, near Goole, was crossing the river in a small boat on Saturday morning for the purpose of conveying a passenger for Goole to Howden- dyke when a gust of wind raised a high wave, which dashed over the boat, struck Mell, and carried him overboard. Although a strong swimmer, Mell was drowned. He leaves a widow and five young children. Obituary. The Earl of Romney died on Monday at the Norfolk residence of his daughter, Lady Florence Hare. He was aged 64, and had be,en Lord-in; Waiting to Queen Victoria from 1889 to 1902.

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EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN THE STATES. Messages from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri all report distinct earth tremours during Monday night. Sleepers were awakened and houses shaken, but up to the present no material damage has been reported, nor is there any record of life lost. -J_

I THE NOISE OF BIRMINGHAM. I Many sections of the Birmingham public are up in arms against the weird and irritating noises produced by the various forms of tram and 'bus traffic in operation there. Hagley-road residents and Corporation-street shopkeepers cannot con- verse in their houses and shops respectively for the noise made by the motor-'buses, and the electllÎc trams are equally objectionable. Now the cable cars on the Hockley route are being excom- municated.

AIRSHIP RISES 1500 FEET. Mr. A. R. Knabensihue on Monday gave- an exhibition of the capabilities of his airship, start- ing from Central-park, New York. The first trial was unsuccessful, but at the second the airship rose a thousand feet, sailed down Broadway for twenty blocks, and settled down over the tower that dominates the" Nelw York Times" building. Mr. Knaibenshue then put about and returned to his starting-point. The trip lasted fifty-four minutes, and the air- ship was under perfect control, rising as high as 1500ft.

NEW BARRACKS AT NORWICH. Mr. H. O. Amold-Forster, Secretary for War, will lay the foundation stone of the new cavalry barracks -at Norwich in the first week in. October.

-T- FIGHT WITH A BULL. A remarkable encounter between a navvy and a bull has occurred at Goodwick, Pembrokeshire. As a gang of men who are engaged on the new branch of the Great Western Railway were pass- ing a farmyard they were startled by the loud bellowing of a bull. One of the navvies, who re- sented the animal's ill-humour, assumed a menac- ing attitude, whereupon the bull made a dash for him. Jumping nimbly aside the navvy dealt the beast a blow on the nose. The bull retreated a few steps, and the navvy, following up his advantage, attacked again. This time the bull came off best. The animal knocked the man down, and was at- tempting to gore him when a number of men rushed to the rescue, and the infuriated bull was driven away.

In his eighty-isaxth year, Mr. George Fordon has. juist performed the feat of mowing half an acre. of oats in four hours at Flixton, near Scar- borough. Ea(ir'a.oruin'ary scenes were witnessed at New- port (Mon.) when 2000 excursionists were unable owing to the crush, to board the- steamers run- ning pleasure trips down the Bristol Channel. All the boats avaibblre carried the utmost num- ber of passengers allowed. Viscount Enfield, who is tenant of the Aber- alralder Moors Invergarry, made a gruesome dis- covery while shooting. He came acrosis the. deaci body of íi. man lying face downwards in the heather, and up to the present the remains have ■not bsjeu identified. I

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. I I MR. ROOSEVELT'S EFFORTS. I Mr. Roosevelt, in pursuance of his efforts to bring about an agreement between the Japanese and Russian peace Envoys, on Monday had an interview with Baron Kaneko, who is associated indirectly with the Japanese Peace Mission. It is denied that Mr. Roosevelt's proposals had any reference to arbitration, but secrecy is main- tained on what took place at the meeting. I WAITING FOR THE CZAR. I It was expected that Tuesday's meeting of the Envovs at Portsmouth, U.S.A., would have led to some definite decision: but the Confer- ence was postponed until Wednesday. The official reason for the postponement is the failur.e to complete the protocols. The real reason, however, is believed to be that M. Witte had not received final instructions from the Czar.

THE KING AT MAKXEKBAD. King Edward was permitted! to enjoy his usual stroll before breakfast at Marienbad in comparative peace on Saturday morning, the intrusive curiosity of the other visitors being apparently exhausted. His Majesty lunched ijyjd dined in his own apartments. In the after- noon t'he King drove out in a carriage, and in the evening he witnessed a performance of the operetta "Fruelilingslust" at the theatre. The King attended Divine service in the English church at noon on Sunday. The Rev. F. E. Sharpe, Vicar of Newport, Isle of Wight, preached', Canon Cole, of Gloucester, reading .the prayers. In the afternoon. His Majesty went to a Wagner concert at t'he Cafe Bellevue, and in the evening dined at the Hotel Rubezahl. I HIS MAJESTY OPENS GOLF LINKS. King Edward on Monday formally opened the new links of the Marienbad Golf Club, which are situated just outside the town, on the Karlsbad- road. Hie Majesty took coffee at the club house, and then followed the players round a nine-hole course, a distance of a mile and a half, remain- ing in the grounds for two hours. The King, z, who i,s an honorary life member of the club, has contributed 600 kronen to ita funds. His Majesty lunched at the Hotel Schloss Mlramonte, and dined at the Hotel Weimar. In the evening he attende-d a performance of the ballet, "Er und Seine Schwester," at the Marien- bad Theatre. C. B." LUNCHES WITH THE KING. King Edward gave a small luncheon party at the Hotel Weimar on Tuesday. The guests included Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Mr. Gill. K.C. Sir William Goschen, the British Ambassador in Vienna, enterlained the King to dinner in the .evening at the Hotel Ruebezahl. Covers were laid for fifteen persons, including his Majesty's suite and the staff of the British Embassy.

ROAD IIOGS IN NORMANDY. I A motor-car which was descending at a high rate of speed the Calvaire-hill at Villerville knocked down several persons on Sunday evening. Two girls were seriously injured. The four occu- pants of the car took to flight, but the vehicle was impounded.

I DEATH OF AN M.P. By the death of Sir James H. Haslett, M.P. for North Belfast, which took place at Belfast, the House of Commons has lost one of its most unassuming members. Although Sir James sat in the House of Commons for ten years in all, his first experience of Westminster being in the short Parliament of 1885, he was never a promi- nent figure, and contested himself with looking after the interests of Belfast, with which he had been intimately connected all his life, and-voting straight for his party. I THE FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Sir James Haslett, M.P., took place on Monday, amid general manifestations of deep regret, at Belfast. The procession was the largest seen in Belfast for many years. All the local public bodies, political associations, philanthropic institutions, and the Ulster Parliamentary party, were repre- sented.

With the approval of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, a number of priests, under the superintendence of Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., will go among the hop-pickers in Kent preaching and generally looking after their spiritual welfare. Masses and other religious services will take place beneath a huge tent. "All monopolies," said! Mr. Cluer, the I Worship-street magistrate, "get the public into as tight a place as tbey can, and then make them pay. Under the Metropolitan. Water Board the water is just as had, just as hard— costing pourids to keep one's pipes in r,epair- and the cost is more."

I DEATH OF MB. ALFRED WATER- HOUSE, R.A. The death of Mr. Alfred Waterhouse, R.A., the distinguished architect, occurred at Yatfcendon r, The death of Mr. Alfred Waterhouse, R.A., the distinguished architect, occurred at Yatfcendon Court, his Berkshire residence, at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning.