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21. Major Ross, acting on behalf of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases, telegraphed from Sierra Leone the discovery of a malaria- bearing mosquito, by which human beings were infected.

— Serious riots took place at Graslitz, and other places in Northern Bohemia, where a strong anti-Austrian feeling prevailed.

— The Transvaal Government handed to the British agent in Pretoria a reply to Mr. Chamberlain's proposal for a joint inquiry into the working of the proposed franchise law.

— James Fitzharris ("Skin the Goat"), who drove the "Invin- cibles" to the scene of the Phoenix Park murders, and Lawrence Hanlon, condemned for the attempted murder of Mr. Denis Field, released from prison ; Joe Mullett, Hanlon's accomplice, having been set at liberty a few weeks previously. All had served the full period usual for prisoners sentenced for life.

22. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers suspended for two years from the Trade Union Congress, for having permitted its members to take the place of men on strike at Tyne Dock.

— Mattre Labori reappeared at the Bennes court martial as counsel for Captain Dreyfus, having sufficiently recovered from his wound, although the ball had not been extracted.

— The goods station at Xeres, Spain, with large quantities of merchandise, and the business section of the town of Victor, Colorado, U.S.A., totally destroyed by fire.

23. Serious rioting extending over several days occurred at Hil- vereum, near Amsterdam, owing to the suppression of the national fair.

— The King of Portugal signed a decree establishing a sanitary cordon round Oporto during the continuance of the plague, several fatal cases having appeared in that city.

— Count Munster, German Ambassador at Paris, and chief re- presentative of Germany at the Peace Congress at the Hague, raised to the dignity of prince.

24. The Tasmanian Legislative Council rejected the Constitution Amendment Bill, which included adult male and female suffrage.

— - Two regiments of British troops embarked for the Cape and Natal.

— At Netherton, Dudley, a gas explosion in a public-house caused the death of two persons, and injured five others.

25. The Transvaal Volksraad, after a debate lasting six days, con- firmed the report of the Dynamite Commission by 18 to 9 votes.

— A railway train on the line between Santiago de Chili and Valparaiso left the rails, and, plunging into the river Mapocho, sixty persons were drowned.

— An Imperial ukase published at St. Petersburg, establishing a system of education for the children of the nobility, mainly at the expense of the Government.