silver mines; the owner of the finest existing private collection of pictures by recent British artists. On the 13th, aged 69, Lord Hotham (Sir John Hotham, Bart., fifth Baron Hotham in the Irish peerage); had served in the Navy in the Crimean War and elsewhere, and as High Sheriff of Yorkshire (East Riding) in 1884. Unmarried; succeeded by his cousin. On the 13th, aged 77, Lieut.-General James John McLeod Innes, V.C., C.B., late R.E.; had taken an active part in the defence of Lucknow and obtained the V.C. at Soltanpur, and held important civil offices in India. Had written among other works, two standard books on the Mutiny. On the 13th, aged 81, James Brabey, J.P., D.L., Surrey, the inventor of many improvements in agricultural machinery. On the 13th, Henry Thomas De La Bère, C.B., sometime Accountant General at the War Office. On the 13th, the Rev. F. T. Elworthy, a learned antiquary and authority on the Somerset dialect. On the 15th, Queen Caroline Carola, widow of King Albert of Saxony, and the last of the Wasa branch of the Ducal family of Holstein-Gottorp, whose founder became King of Sweden in 1751. On the 16th, John B. Westcott, M.V.O., since 1898 architect and surveyor to the office of works. On the 17th, aged 70, the Very Rev. Canon William Greaney, Rector of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Leamington, and for many years administrator of Birmingham Roman Catholic Cathedral. On the 18th, aged 59, Joseph Israel Tarte, ex-Minister of Public Works under Sir Wilfred Laurier in Canada; an energetic Minister, a strong promoter of improved waterways, and an ardent protectionist, for which reason he had had to resign office in 1902; editor of the Patrie of Montreal. On the 18th, aged 73, the Rev. Edgar Summers, Headmaster of Roysse's School, Abingdon, 1870-83; previously a Master at Bury St. Edmunds and Brighton College. On the 19th, aged 94, Frederic Stacpoole, A.R.A., a distinguished engraver, and also a painter. On the 19th, Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Stewart, late Gordon Highlanders; had served in the Crimea and (with distinction) in the Indian Mutiny, and was an authority on genealogy. On the 19th, suddenly, in the Theatre at St. Petersburg, M. Filosofoff, Russian Minister of Commerce. On the 20th, aged 70, General Sir George Corrie Bird, K.C.I.E., C.B.; had served in the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan War of 1878, and Burma, and had commanded the Punjab Frontier Force in 1897-8. On the 20th, aged 70, Thomas Annandale, M.D. Edin., Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh University since 1877; had written valuable surgical works, and was an authority on operations for cleft palate and hernia. On the 21st, aged 68, Stephen Musurus Pasha, since 1903 Turkish Ambassador in London, as his father had been from 1851 to 1885; Prince of Samoa from 1896 to 1900. On the 21st, aged 76, Sir Patrick Heron Watson, M.D. Edin., an eminent surgeon in the Scottish capital, a high authority in his profession and holder of many distinctions. On the 22nd, at Vienna, aged 66, Count Friedrich Schönborn, Minister of Justice under Count Taaffe, President of the Supreme Administrative Court, and an Austrian member of the Hague Tribunal. On the 22nd, aged 71, Colonel Henry Constantine Evelyn Ward, C.I.S., late Indian Staff Corps; had served in the Mutiny and in frontier warfare and in civil administration, notably in various native States. About the 22nd, Professor Lassar of the University of Berlin, an authority on dermatology. About the 22nd, aged 80, Professor Albert Von Tobold, of Berlin, a leading German authority on diseases of the larynx. On the 23rd, aged 84, Pierre Charles César Janssen, an eminent French astronomer, a discoverer in 1878 of the true nature of the sun's corona and director of the French Astrophysical Observatory at Mendon. On the 24th, aged 75, the Rev. Alfred Bourne, sometime a Congregationalist minister, for many years secretary of the British and Foreign School Society and head of the Borough Road and Stockwell Training Colleges. On the 25th, aged 64, Colonel Alan Coulstoun Gardner, sometime 14th Hussars, Liberal M.P. for the Ross division of Herefordshire since 1906; had served with distinction in the Zulu War of 1879. About the 25th, M. J. Cornély, a brilliant Paris journalist; at one time on the Gaulois, but after the Dreyfus affair on the Figaro and then the Siècle. On the 28th, aged 88, Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, M.D., F.R.S., Professor in King's College, London, and a high authority on gout. On the 28th, aged 81, Dr. Georg Ernst Hinzpeter, tutor of the Emperor Wilhelm II. from 1866 to 1880; had inquired on the Emperor's behalf into the Westphalian miners' strike in 1889, and had taken a leading part in the educational reform of 1891. He was made a life Peer of Prussia in 1900. On the 29th, at Cracow, aged 86, Dr. Julian Ritter Dunajewski, Finance Minister in Austria under Count Taaffe from 1880 to 1891; a Polish Conservative; had restored equilibrium to the Austrian Budget. On the 28th, William Marcus Thompson, for seventeen years editor of Reynolds' Newspaper, and a veteran Radical. On the 29th, the Most Rev. Daniel Murphy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania; said to be the oldest Roman Catholic Bishop in the world. On the 30th,
aged 77, Gustavus Russell Hamilton-Russell, eighth Viscount Boyne in the Irish peerage, and Baron Brancepeth in the English. M. 1858, Katherine, dau. of second Earl of Eldon; succeeded by his s. On the 30th, aged 86, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, of Massachusetts, s. of a Governor of the State and nephew of Bancroft the historian. He had been Chargé d'Affaires, and Secretary of the United States Legation in London in 1852, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grant, and had prepared the United States case for the Geneva tribunal in the Alabama claims. He was United States Minister to Germany and Reporter of the Supreme Court from 1883 almost till his death. From about 1852 to 1862 he was American correspondent of The Times. On the 31st, suddenly, M. Guyot-Dessaigne, Minister of Justice in France. He had been a judge under the Empire, and Minister of Justice in the Floquet Cabinet for the last fortnight of its existence in 1889. On the 31st, M. de Trooz, Prime Minister of Belgium since April, 1907, previously Minister of the Interior. On the 31st, aged 69, the Rev. Edgar Sanderson, formerly Headmaster of Stockwell, Macclesfield, and Huntingdon Grammar Schools, and a historian of some repute. On the 31st, the Rev. James Jackson, President of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1897.
The figures between [ ] refer to PART I.
ABRUZZI, Duke of the, at the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, 2
ACCIDENTS.-EXPLOSIONS, Ardeer, nitro-
glycerine works, 4; Caianelli, motor-
car, 17; Fontanet, Indiana, gunpowder
factory blows up, 32; Palermo, 39;
Reden pit, St. Johann, 3; Woolwich
Arsenal, Chemical Research Depart-
ment, 4. MISCELLANEOUS, Balloon,
military, 14; Boys' Brigade, members
of the, drowned, 26; Blackfriars Bridge,
caisson falls, 36; Darcy Lever, 31;
"Devil's Kitchen," 27; St. Lawrence,
railway bridge collapses, 27; Leicester,
motor-car, 18; Shoreham harbour
works, collapse, 10; Swansea, flooring
of a pavilion collapses, 26. RAILWAY,
Chapleau, Ontario, 9; Coatbridge, 30;
Colton, California, 8; Ebbw Junction,
30; Elliot Junction, 2; Honda, Cali-
fornia, 12; Morris, Iowa, 28; Salem,
Michigan, 23; Shrewsbury, 32; West
Hampstead station, 33. SHIPPING,
Georgia, 23; Submarine C 8, 17; Tor-
pedo boat, French, 4. (See Shipping
Disasters.) TRAMCARS, Birmingham,
30; Sowerby Bridge, 32; Wallington,
8. See also Earthquakes
AFGHANISTAN. AMIR, his visit to
India, [377]; Anglo-Russian Conven-
tion, [376]
AFRICA, EAST.-ABYSSINIA, [425]. BRIT-
ISH CENTRAL AFRICAN PROTECTORATE,
name changed, [427], 29. BRITISH
EAST AFRICA, [426]; Churchill, W.,
his visit to, [426]; Manyuema, sleep-
ing sickness, [427]; Nairobi, discovery
of diamonds, [426]; Ruwenzori, ex-
ploration of the, [426], 2; trade, [427].
GERMAN EAST AFRICA, [427]. LOU-
RENÇO MARQUES, trade, [428]. NYAS-
SALAND PROTECTORATE, [427], 29;
trade, [427]. PORTUGUESE EAST
AFRICA, trade, [428]. SOMALILAND
PROTECTORATE, [426]. UGANDA, reve-
nue, [427]; trade, [427]. ZANZIBAR
and PEMBA, [427]
NORTH. ALGERIA, trade, [431].
MOROCCO, Casablanca, rising at, [429],
24; bombardment, [430], 25; occupied,
[430], 29; Maclean, Kaid Sir H., taken
prisoner, [429]; released, [430]; Mau-
champ, Dr., assassinated, [428]; Mulai
Hafid proclaimed Sultan, [430]; Rai-
suli takes Kaid Maclean prisoner,
AFRICA, NORTH, continued.
[429]; Regnault, M., received by the
Sultan, [430], 31; trade, [431]; Ujda
occupied by the French, [428]. TUNIS,
[431]; trade, [432]
SOUTH.-BECHUANALAND, hut tax,
increase of the, [411]; Panzera, Lieut.-
Col., Resident Commissioner, [411];
revenue, [411]; trade, [411]. САРЕ
COLONY, Budget, [409]; election
speeches, [410]; Inter-Colonial Defence
Commission, [410]; Jameson, Dr., his
manifesto, [409]; tour through the
Transkei territories, [410]; Middle-
burgh, Congress of the Cape Bond at,
[416]; revenue, [409]; trade, [410];
Transkei territories, [410]. Federation
of the South African Colonies, memo-
randum on, [413]-[416]; views on,[417].
NATAL, Budget, [413]; Dinizulu ar-
rested, [412], 37; Nathan, Sir M.,
appointed Governor, [402], [413], 9;
native discontent, report on, [411];
grievances, [412]; trade, [413]; Zulu-
land, suppression of revolt, [411].
ORANGE RIVER COLONY, Budget, [409] :
Constitution, grant of a, [407], 19
elections, [408]; results, [409], 36
Fischer, Mr., Prime Minister, [409];
Ministry, the new, [409]; revenue,
[408]; trade, [408]. RHODESIA, Felix-
burg, new gold field, [418]; responsible
government, demand for, [418]. RнO-
DESIA, NORTH-EAST, [418]; Wallace,
L. A., appointed Administrator, [419].
RHODESIA, NORTH-WEST, Codrington,
R., appointed Administrator, [419];
Livingstone the capital, [418]. RHO-
DESIA, SOUTHERN, Commissioners' re-
port, [419]; Milton, Sir W., reappointed
Administrator, [419]; mining indus-
tries, [418]; native labour, demand
for, [418]; railway extension, [418];
revenue, [418]. Selborne, Lord, his
memorandum on the Federation of the
South African Colonies, [413], [416].
SWAZILAND, Chiefs, deputation of, sent
to London, [419]; Corydon, R. T.,
appointed Resident Commissioner,
[419]. TRANSVAAL, Asiatic Registra-
tion Bill, [405]; Botha, Gen., Prime
Minister, [404]; at the Imperial Con-
ference, [91], [97], [122], [133], [405];
on the repatriation of the Chinese,
[406]; Chinese on the Rand, [407];
K 2
AFRICA, SOUTH, continued.
Cullinan diamond, presentation of,
to King Edward VII., [407], 26;
elections, general, [403]; result, [404],
6; Ministry constituted, [404]; Pre-
toria, Kruger, ex-President, desecration
of his grave, 32
WEST. ANGOLA, railway extension,
[434]; trade, [434]. ASHANTI, [433].
CONGO FREE STATE, administration,
[435]. FRENCH WEST AFRICA, Cromie,
Capt., his Report, [436]; trade, [435].
GAMBIA, [433] GERMAN SOUTH-WEST
AFRICA, [434]. GERMAN WEST AFRICA,
[434]. GOLD COAST, trade, [433].
GUINEA, [433]. LAGOS, [432]. LIBERIA,
[433]. NIGERIA, Bauchi province, tin
industry, [432]; railway extension,
[432]. NIGERIA, SOUTHERN, [432].
NORTHERN TERRITORIES,[433]. SIERRA
LEONE, [433]
AIRSHIPS, military, trials at Farnborough,
28; Nulli Secundus, 31; Patrie, [284]
ST. ALBANS Pageant, 23
ALEXANDRA, Queen, at Chatsworth, 1;
Paris, 4; return to London, 4; at
Gaeta, 10; Bangor, 22; Cardiff, 22;
Dublin, [267], 22; Frognal, 24
ALIENS ACT, report of the working, 12
ALPINE Club, celebration of its jubilee, 38
AMBASSADOR, appointment of, Bryce, J.,
[5], 3, 5
AMERICA.-Vide Canada, Mexico, New-
foundland, United States, West Indies
CENTRAL.-COSTA RICA, trade,
[465]. GUATEMALA, Barrillas, Gen.,
ex-President of, murdered, [465];
trade, [465]. NICARAGUA, war with
Honduras and Salvador, [464]; peace
concluded, [464]. WASHINGTON, con-
ference at, for a permanent settlement,
[447], [464]
SOUTH. ARGENTINA,
[470]; Corrientes, revolution, [470];
debt, amount of, [469]; locusts, plague
of, [470]; railway strike, [470]; Saens
Pena, ex-President Dr., his death,[470].
BOLIVIA, Budget, [471]; gold industry,
[471]. BRAZIL, military service ob-
ligatory, [469]; Peru boundary com-
mission, [469]; trade, [469]. CHILI,
revenue, [471]; trade, [471]; Valdivia,
earthquake at, [471]. ECUADOR, Al-
faro, Gen., plot against, [471]; Quito
railway, [471]; trade, [471]. GUIANA,
British, [468]; Dutch, [468]; French,
[468]. PARAGUAY, [471]. PERU, Bond-
holders, Corporation of, contract signed,
[471]. URUGUAY, general election,
[470]; revenue, [470]; Williman, Presi-
dent, his administration, [470]. VENE-
ZUELA, payment of claims, [471]
ANGLO-FRENCH convention, 38
ANGLO-RUSSIAN agreement, [233], [375],
[376], [386], 27
ANGLO-SPANISH agreement, [90], [160], [232]
ANNIVERSARIES, celebration of, Australia,
first settlement in, 3; North German
Lloyd Steamship Company, 5
ARMY, the 5th Lancers unfit for service,
34; the New Territorial, inauguration
at Buckingham Palace, [235], [259];
organisation, [4], [30]
ART.-Retrospect of :-
ARTS and Crafts Society, 94
CHANTREY Bequest, 93
COUNTRY Painters, Society of, 94
INTERNATIONAL Society's Exhibition, 94
NATIONAL Gallery, 92
NATIONAL Gallery of British Art, 93
NEW English Art Club, 94
NEW Gallery, 94
PORTRAIT Painters, Modern Society of, 94
ROYAL Academy, 93; elections, 94
SALES, 94, 95
ASCENSION DAY in Primary Schools, 9
ASCOT, Gold Cup stolen, 17
ASHBURTON collection of pictures, sale of, 32
ASHTOWN, Lord, bomb explosion at his
house, 26
ASIA.-Vide Afghanistan, Baluchistan,
China, Hong-Kong, India, Japan,
Korea, North-West Frontier, Persia,
Siam, Tibet
AUSTRALASIA.-Vide New South
Wales, New Zealand, Polynesia,
Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
AUSTRALIA.-BOUNTIES Bill, [474].
CAPITAL, site for, [477]. DRAKIN,
Hon. A., on tariff reform, [121], [123],
[132], [473]; defence scheme, [475].
Debts, State, Federalisation of, [476].
Defence, scheme of, [475]. FORREST,
Sir J., resignation, [473]. IMMIGRA
TION, [478]. MAIL service, [475].
Ministry, the new, [473]. NAVIGATION
conference, [475]. Northern territory
transferred to the Commonwealth
Government, [477]. PREMIERS, con-
ference of, at Brisbane, [476]. Pro-
tection, the new, [473]; result, [474].
Tariff reform, [473]; the new, [476].
Trade, [472]
SOUTH.-FRANCHISE Extension Bill,
[480]. WHEAT yield, [480]
WESTERN.-GOLD, diminution in
the output, [480]. JARRAH, timber
cutting industry, strike, [481]. LAMB,
frozen, shipments of, [481]. Land Tax
Assessment Bill, [481]. MOORE, Mr.,
resignation, [481]. RAILWAYS, light,
construction of, [481]. WHEAT, [480]
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-BUDGET, [312].
CABINET, changes in the, [312]. Croats,
conflict with the Government, [314].
DECENNIAL financial compromise,
renewal, 31, [305]. Delegations, meet-
ing, [317]; opening, [318]. ELECTIONS,
result, [310], 12. Estimates, [316],
[317]. FOREIGN relations, [316]. MAG-
YAR language compulsory, [314]. Man-
hood Suffrage Bill, [310], [312], 32.
Measures, passed, [315]. POLONYI,
M., charges again-t, [313]; resigna-
tion, [313]. Reichsrath, the new,
opened, [311], 31. Ruthenians, attack
on the University of Lemberg, [312].
TAUERN tunnel, completion of the
boring, 24. Taxation, reform of, [316].
Treaty, the new customs and com-
mercial, [315]
Francis Joseph, Emperor of, his
speech on the opening of the Reichs-
rath, [311]; meeting with King Edward
VII., [317]; at the opening of the
Delegations, [318]
BALLOON, despatched from the Crystal
Palace, 32; military, sent up from
Aldershot, fate of, 14. See Airships
BALUCHISTAN.-IMPORTS and exports,
[376]. SEISTAN, trade with, [376]
BANK of England rate raised, 34
BANKRUPTCY Acts, Annual Board of Trade,
Report on, 26
BARONETAGE, report of the Committee, 10
BARONETCIES conferred, Ashman, Sir H.,
35; Bilsland, Mr., 35; Cory, C., 35
BATTERSEA, statue of brown dog damaged
by students, 36
BEISTEGUI, De, v. Gardner, case of, 16
BELFAST riots, [216] seq., [265]
BELGIUM.-ANTWERP, dockers' strike,
[338]. CONGO STATE, administration,
[339]. ELECTIONS, Communal, [338].
HOLLAND, relations with, [338]
MINES, hours of labour in, [336].
Ministry, resignation, [336]; the new,
[337], 11. TROOZ, M. de, Prime
Minister, [337], 11; his death, [339],
146. ZEEBRUGGE, new port opened, 24
BELL, Sir J., elected Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, 30
BILLS. See Parliament
BILLSON, Sir A., his death in the House of
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BULGARIA.-BALKAN States, relations
between, [331]. GUDEFF, Dr., ap-
pointed Prime Minister, [334]. PET-
KOFF, M., murdered, [334]
BURDETT-COUTTS, Lady, her funeral, 1;
will, 1
BURY ST. EDMUNDS Pageant, 20
BUST unveiled, Henley, W. E., 22
BYE-ELECTIONS, [41], [74], 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10,
12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28,
30, 36
CAB fares, revision of, 3
CAMBRIDGE
University, Mathematical
Tripos, alterations carried, 4; honor-
ary degrees conferred, 16; Watson,
G. N., Senior Wrangler, 16; Trinity
College, amount of legacy left to, 39
CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Sir H., his article
in the Nation, [43]; honorary degree
conferred, 17; presented with the
freedom of Peebles, 31; of Edinburgh,
33; attack of illness, 35
CANADA.-ALBERTA, number of mem-
bers, [452]; creation of a University,
[461]. Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1894,
[457]; debate on, [459]. BRITISH
COLUMBIA, [461]. Bryce, Rt. Hon.
J., at Ottawa, [454]; on relations with
England, [456] CHAMPLAIN, scheme
for the celebration of his landing,
[460]. EMMERSON, Mr., resignation,
[456]. England, relations with, [455],
[456]. Estimates, [460]. FISHERY
question, [453]. Franco-Canadian
Treaty, [457]. Fushimi, Prince, his
visit, [457]. GREY, Lord, death of his
daughter, [452]. HUDSON'S Strait,
navigation, [452]. Hyman, Hon. C. S.,
resignation, [453]. IMMIGRATION,
[457], [461]. Imperial Federation
question, [454]. Insurance Bill, [460];
Commission report, [454]. JAPAN,
relations with, [457]. LAURIER, Sir
W., on trade questions, [455]; on re-
lations with England, [455]. MANI-
TOBA, [461]. NEW BRUNSWICK, [461].
NOVA SCOTIA, [461]. OLD Age An-
nuities Bill, [459]. ONTARIO, [461].
POSTAL arrangements, new, 10. Pre-
ference policy, [455]. PRINCE ED-
WARD'S ISLAND, [461]. QUEBEC, [461].
ROOT, Hon. E., at Ottawa, [452].
SASKATCHEWAN, number of members,
[452]. TARIFF, the new, [453]. Tele-
graphists, strike, 26. Trade, [461].
VANCOUVER, riots, [457]. WEST, Pro-
vinces in the, [461]; representation of,
[452]; increase of subsidies, [454].
Women's Club inaugurated, at Mon-
treal, [460]
CARNEGIE, A., his donation to King Ed.
ward's Hospital Fund, 26
CARTHUSIAN Order, decision as to title to
"Chartreuse" for their liqueurs, 38
CAXTON Hall meetings, [21], [41], [74],
[244], 5, 25
CENTENARIES, celebration of, Garibaldi,
his birth, 19; Geological Society, 30
CHALMERS, R., appointed Chairman of the
Board of Inland Revenue, 25
CHANNEL, attempts to swim across, 27
CHANNEL Ferry Company, their scheme,
33
CHANNEL Tunnel, proposed, 2
CHINA.-ASSEMBLY, Imperial, proposed
establishment, [395]. CONCESSIONS,
protests against, [396]. EDUCATION,
[397] FAMINE, [401]. INDO-CHINA,
French, [402]. Insurrectionary move-
ments, [393]. JAPAN, relations with,
[399]-[401]. MANCHURIA, abolition of
privileges, [398]; development, [399];
trade, [399]. MARITIME Customs,
revenue, [401]. Missionaries, attacks
on, [401]. OFFICIALS, changes in,
[394]. Opium smoking, suppression
of, [398]. PEKING, meeting at, [395].
RAILWAYS, [397], [400]. SHANGHAI,
Protestant Missionary Conference at,
[401]. YANGTSE Valley, famine, [401];
sedition in, [393]
CHRISTIE'S, sales at, 5, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19,
38, 39
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, S.P.C.K.'s estimate
of total voluntary offerings, 5; Church
Congress, [238]
CIVIL List pensions, 21
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