GENERAL BOOTES SCHEME.
THE "STANDARD'S" OPINION.
■■ ' : London, May 31. The "Standard " advises its readers not to aid General Booth's scheme, which it charac terises as a worthless piece of sensational bookmaking.
CHOLERA IN KASHMER.
A THOUSAND DEATHS IN FOUR DAYS.
Calcutta. May 30. Cholera is raging at Tunager, Kashmer, and 999 deaths were reported in four days. There are still 1,700 cases under treatment.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
AMICABLE RELATIONS.
Berlin, May 31.
The Russian Government is making strenuous efforts to restore amicable rela tions with Germany.
THE WAR IN VENEZUELA.
INSURGENT SUCCESSES.
New York, May 31. Intelligence from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, states that the insurgents have captured Tucacas, a seaport ort the Carib bean Sea, and seized two warships.
FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE

DESTITUTE.
New York, May 31. In Arkansas Valley a hundred villages are flooded, and twenty thousand people are rendered destitute.
THE CANADIAN-PACIFIC ROUTE.
EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPORT OF

TROOPS.
'' •' London, May 30. Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying in the House of Com mons, to-day, to a question asked by Sir J. C. R. Colomb,*M.P. for Bow and Bromley (Tower Hamlets), stated that an experi mental transport of troops had been made across the Canadian-Pacific Railway on two occasions, and had been a decided success so far as rapid travelling was concerned, but as regards costs, the line was unablp to compare with that via-Panama.
GREAT FIRE IN INDIA.
TWO THOUSAND HOUSES

DESTROYED,

EIGHTY THOUSAND PEOPLE

HOMELESS

'! Calcutta, May 31. In Tunager, in Kashmer, where cholera is prevalent, 2,000 houses have been destroyed by fire, and 80,000 peopleleft homeless.
MURCHISON DIGGINGS.
MEN DYING ON THE ROADS.
