Cronje and 997 prisoners sailed from St. Helena for Capetown.
The Ballance Dairy Company has sold it 3 July and August output in bulk at Is Id. New Plymouth troopers of the Seventh Contingent, who returned at the end of June, complain that they have not received pay due to them.
The War Office ia making experiments with a new 18-pounder field gun, which promises to be superior to anything in the possession of any of the other Powers.
Despite offioial seorecy, it has leaked out that a squadron of Russian cavalry at recent St. Petersburg manceuvres, were ordered to plunge into a river, and 50 were drowned.
A severe eruption at Mont Pelee occurred on Thursday, heavy dust showers causing total darkness for twenty minutes, and ex tending seawards for a distance of five miles.
Mr Seddon, speaking at Leeds, complained of the heavy dues charged for warehousing wool in London, and suggested the ware housing of samples near the points of con sumption. *

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