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21. A disastrous explosion occurred during the trial trip of the torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch owing to the breaking of the con- necting rod of the high-pressure cylinder. Eight men were killed by scalding steam and seven others seriously injured, of whom three subsequently succumbed.

— The Dominion House of Commons rejected by 77 to 41 votes a resolution in favour of a preferential tariff for Canadian trade with the United Kingdom.

— At High Wycombe a fire originating in a chair factory destroyed two rows of cottages, rendering nearly 300 persons homeless, and doing damage to the extent of 20,0002. A serious fire also at Silvertown, North Woolwich, destroyed a great part of the premises of the Western Electric Company.

22. Mr. Elihu Root, a prominent New York lawyer, appointed Secretary for War in President McKinley's Cabinet.

— The Patriarch of the Catholic Coptic Church, nominated by the Pope, enthroned at Alexandria, thus renewing the relations between the Catholic and Coptic Churches after an interval of 700 years.

— The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, attended the International University Sports at Queen's Club Kensington. Of the nine events Cambridge won the mile, the half- mile, the quarter mile, and the three miles ; Oxford, the long jump, and Harvard the hundred yards, the hurdles, the high jump, and the hammer.

24. The following is a list of the principal competitions and prize- winners at the meeting of the National Rifle Association at Bisley :—

PRIZES.

Highest

Prices.

Distance.

possible score.

Winner.

Waldegrave (M.R.) -

800,900

100

Major Honourable T. F. Fremantle, 1st Bucks - 93

Albert (M.R.) -

800, 900, 1,000

175

Sergt. J. F. Martin, 5th V.B.H.L.I. - - - 161

Prince of Wales* 8(8. R.) -

200,600

100

Staff Sergt. Wattleworth, 2nd V.B. Liverpool - 95

Secretary for War's (S.R.) Duke of Cambridge's^. R. )

800

60

Lt W. Dunlop, 1st Lanark 49

900

60

Lt W. Dunlop, 1st Lanark 48

Alexandra (S.R.) -

600,600

70

Sergt. W. Graham, Border Rifles .... 69

St George's (S.R.) -

600,600, 800

120

Capt. H. Ormundsen, 5th Royal Scots - - -116

Halford Memorial Cup

(A.R.) ....

900,1,000

150

Major G. C. Gibbs, 2nd Gloucester Engineers - 134

Volunteer Aggregate (A.R)

900,1,000

150

Surg. Lieut. Bertram, R. Canadian * - - 136

Grand Aggregate

—

—

Surg. Lieut Bertram, R. Canadian - - - 360

All Comers' Aggregate -

—

—

A. -Sergt. Jones, 4th South Wales Borderers - - 167

Queen's (S.R.), 1st stage,

Bronze Medal

200, 600, 600

105

CorpL Felmingham, 2nd Norfolk - - - -101

Do., 2nd stage, Silver

Medal ....

500,600

125

Col. -Sergt. W. H. Mat- thews, 12th Middlesex —

Do., 3rd stage, Gold Medal ....

98,120 - - - - 218 Pt. W. Priaulx, Guernsey

800, 900, 1,000

160

Militia— 99, 114, 123 - 336