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 64 CHRONICLE. [aw*.

SEPTEMBER.

1. A largely attended meeting held at the Hague in support of the South African Republics, and claiming complete independence for the Transvaal.

— The editor of the Transvaal Leader arrested on a charge of high- treason, and an unsuccessful attempt made to arrest the editor of the Johannesburg Star, who escaped over the frontier.

— The referendum on the Federal Commonwealth Bill in Queens- land resulted in 34,983 votes for it, and 28,942 against it.

— The Cape of Good Hope Government adhered to the imperial penny postage scale.

2. A cyclone, coming from the south, and travelling eastward, struck the Azores, causing great destruction of property.

— The Governor-General of Canada's foot-guards, numbering 350, arrived from Ottawa at Chicago, where they met with an enthusiastic reception.

3. At Yakutat Bay, on the coast of Alaska, fifty-two shocks of earth- quake occurred in the course of five hours, increasing in violence so that the people flew to the hills. A tidal wave, estimated at 30 feet high, disappeared before reaching the shore, as was supposed in a chasm which opened outside the harbour.

4. The Prussian Minister of the Interior, Baron von der Recke von der Horst, and the Minister of Education, Dr. Bosse, resigned.

— The Trade Union Congress attended by 383 delegates, represent- ing 1,250,000 male and female workers, met at Plymouth. Mr. Vernon of Plymouth was elected president in the place of Mr. T. Proctor, whose union — the engineers — had been excluded.

— An agreement arrived at between the employers and workmen, which put an end to the great lock-out in the principal trades through- out Denmark.

— The County Cricket Championship fell to Surrey, who played twenty-six matches, won ten, lost two, and drew fourteen ; Middlesex followed with eighteen matches, of which they won eleven, lost three, and drew four. Yorkshire played twenty-eight matches, won fourteen, lost four, and drew ten. Lancashire and Sussex were next in order.

5. At the Rennes trial the counsel for the defence having in vain appealed to the court to summon Colonel von Schwartzkoppen and Colonel Panizzardi as witnesses, Maltre Labori telegraphed to the German Emperor a request that he would permit the first named to attend and give evidence.

— At New York a mass meeting of Democrats supporting the Chicago platform denounced Mr. Mc Kin ley's foreign policy, pledged themselves to support Mr. Bryan's candidature, and loudly cheered the name of Aquinaldo.