Earl Beauchamp has become engag ed to Lady Letticc Grosvencr, sistei of the Duke of Westminister.
Inquiry showed that the recent gun disaster on the battleship Mars was due to the premature opening of the breach of the gun to ascertain \lhc cause of a misfire.
Nine tourists and four boatmen were drowned in agalc on K Harney Lake.
Clouds of i ashes obscure Fort de France like a thick- fog. The Chinese agreement confirms the arrangement entered into in 18118, and specifies that if iunrs arc needed for branches of the northern line of Chinese railways, the Administration must apply to the British-Chinese Corporation.
Received May. 21 at 0.22 a.m. Londoa, May 20, Raheita, on the Red Sea littoral, lms been annexed to the Italian ter ritory ol Krillnea. Snare/,, one of the anarchists ar rested in Madrid, served seven years for an attempt on the life of the late Senor Oauavos.
Two men, irimed llirsch and Lock ert, who have been arrested for firing at General de Walil, Governor'of Vilna, wounding him h the hand and oot.
King Edward has announced that i is his pleasure that the children at •aiding elementary and other school! shall have a week's holiday for tin Coronatio

Mr J. J. Shannon, A.R.A., lias been commissioned by Angja-Colon ialsto paint, a presentation portrai of Mr Scddon.
