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E A C I N G. Sidney, May 24 The Sydney Turf Club's meeting opened to-day with fine weathar. Uwiu« to Monday bei. g proclaimed a holiday, to day was only partially observed. The following are the results ot the principal

privilege of Anysriqajis naturalisation for themselves and tneir fellow-countrymen all over the United States. The strike of the labour bodies of New England, for nine hours as a day's labonr, fixed for April 1, took place, but the success met with was not as encouraging as had been anticipated. All over New Ehgland the move was made, and it had been looked forward to with such dread by manufacturers and contractors, that they successfully temporised with their em ployees to postpone final action untill May I. This brought dissension into the labour ranks, and prevented the move ment being unanimous. Most of the organisations made a stand, howeTer, and numerous strikes were the result ; dis content among journeymen and strikes brevailing in fact all over the United States. Dr Lucien Howe says that blindness has increased in the State of New York during the past five years thirteen times as fast as the population. Six Itanian cardinals will be created in Marcht in view of the minority of the Italian-cardinalate as compared with the number of foreign cardinals. The statement is made that more than 65,000 elephants are killed in Africa every year, and that their ivory, in a raw state, is worth nearly £1,000,000. New York Chinamen are just now under going a rigid examination— their ways of living having aroused the atten tion of the health authorities and the police. Two Russian climbers of Mount Ararat found in perfect preservation a minimum thermometer which was left there last year. It registered 50 degrees below zero. The German Government will strictly enforce stringent regulations upon emigration to America, even refusing passports to youths under nineteen years. of age, Emperor William is to present the Sul tan with twenty-four drums. The Otto man army hitherto has not used martial music from that sort of an instrument. the Germans appear to have acquired a complete control over Cuban finances, so much so that the island is practically a German instead of a Spanish dependency. Mr Jamieson, the Dublin distiller, owner of the famous yacht Ilex, is having a yacht built at Southampton. 