DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OP COMMONS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received March 31st, 6.45 p.m. London, March 30. Mr C. Fenwick, member for Hans beck, moved in tbe House of Commons to-day that it was expedient that mem bers pf Parliament should receive an honorarium, and he suggested that the amount should be £375 per annum. Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, ridiculed the compulsory payment of members, and doubted whether many of them would accept the honorarium voluntarily. The Hon. G. R. Curzon, member for Southport, in speaking to the motion, said there was not a single working man member in the Victorian Par liament.
MORE SHIPPING DISASTERS.
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE, [Bt Elbotrio Telegraph.—Copyright.] [per press association.l Received March SQth, X 2.30 pjta. London, March 29. News has been received of the burn ing of the steamer Sumatra in the Mediterranean Sea. The steamer was bound lor Hong Kong with a cargo of petroleum. Received March 81st, 6.45 p.m. London, March 29. The Qstend-Dover mail boat, while crossing the Straits, collided with a Belgian steamer and was blown up. Fourteen passengers were drowned. Victor Bonaparte was rescued. The boilers of the mail steamer exploded after the collision. Received April Ist, 1.30 a.m. London, March 30. Information has been received that the American barque Albert Russell, 724 tone, which left New York for Queensland on February 10th, foun dered, and only two of the crew survived.
UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE

VICTORY FOR CAMBRIDGE. fpSB PEBSS ASSOCIATION.]' Received March 31st, 6.45 p.m. London, March 30. The annual boat race between Cam bridge and Oxford Universities was rowed over the usual course from Putney to Mortlake to-day. The Cam bridge crew led throughout, and won easily by three lengths. Time, 20min Hsec.
