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6. Six hundred native signalmen (Brahmins) on the Great India Peninsula Railway struck for higher wages and improved conditions.

— A dinner, under the presidency of the Duke of Atholl, given to Colonel H. Macdonald, C.B., of the Gordon Highlanders, who was pre- sented with a sword of honour from the Highland Association of London in recognition of his distinguished services in Egypt and India.

— An unsuccessful attempt made by Mr. Alger, the United States Secretary for War, to supersede General Miles as commander of the Army.

— The Archbishop of Canterbury, with the Archbishop of York as assessor, sat on an Ecclesiastical Court at Lambeth to hear the appeals of two beneficed clergymen against the directions of their respective diocesans to discontinue the use of incense, etc.

8. At Lagos, Bishop Tugwell committed for trial on a charge of criminal libel, for having suggested, in a letter to the Times, that 75 per cent, of the deaths among. Europeans on the West African coast were attributable to intemperance.

— The military court appointed to inquire into the charges against the commissariat department during the Cuban war censured General Miles, and practically exculpated every one else. President M'Kinley thereupon recommended that no further proceedings should be taken.

9. The Duchess of York, after opening the new pier at Tenby, pro- ceeded to Pembroke Dockyard, and assisted at the launching of the new royal yacht, christening her Victoria and Albert

— The Royal Geographical Society awarded the founder's medal for the year to the French Captain Binger for his explorations in the bend of the Niger, and the patron's medal to M. Foureau for his explorations in the Sahara.

— Serious anti-Jewish riots took place in Nitcholaieff, a Russian town in which the Jews numbered 30,000 out of a total population of 100,000. Several hundred houses occupied by Jews were stoned, and their shops wrecked. About 400 of the assailants were arrested.

— A large section of the second regiment of the Guernsey Militia assembled for annual drill at Bantiquy Arsenal, refused to fall in at the bugle call, and moved away hooting and shouting.

10. In the House of Commons the Clergy Discipline Bill met by the Government by a dilatory resolution, rejected by 310 to 166 votes.

— Lord Kimberley, speaking at Birmingham, held that the only remedy for the existing disorders in the Church was disestablishment.

— Two hundred and sixty Dervishes, with a large number of women and [children from the Khalifa's camp, surrendered to the gunboats on the White Nile.

— Mr. Rhodes accepted the presidency of the South African League, to which he had unanimously been elected by the meeting of delegates at Kimberley.

11. The Duke of Northumberland created a Knight of the Garter in the room of the Duke of Beaufort, deceased.