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1 [pK«88 ASSOCIATION.] FIRE AT A "MAGAZINE. PARIS, June 23. A fire at the magazine of Genevau: "■la Villette did damage to the exten ■ai £40,000, principally to foodstutts COLORED LABOR FOR FRANCE PARIS, June 23. A committee formed to encourage ■ the importation, of African labor ha< announced that it will shortly employ .50,000 Algerians and Moroccans h . the industrial region of north-easterx F-rance. A DIVER'S DILEMMA. PARIS, June 23. A naval diver was endeavoring to • recover a torpedo buried in the Band at Cherbourg. He fired the torpedo, and when the propeller started it cut his airpipe. fa» diver clutched the torpedo, which carried him haliconlscioiis to the surface, and he was '•■rescued. CROQUET TOURNAMENT. LONDON, June 24. At" the croquet tournament at ■ Rockha.mpt.on in the first round Crowther Smith beat Izard (New Zealand), 8 plus 25. TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. -LONDON, June 24. The International Conference on - -tropical agriculture has opened at the . Imperial Institute. PURCHASE OF PALL MALL MAGAZINE. LONDON, June 24. A company controlled by Ma1 Randolph Hearst, the American mews- • paper proprietor, has purchased the Pall Mall Magazine, which will be mi- ' oorporated with gash's Magazine. HEIR TO NEW ZEALAND \ ESTATE. LONDON, June 23. Thomas H. Moore, of .C'astiletown, '. Ssle of Man, has been notified that ho . is the residuary legatee of his cousin, Mra Townend of New Zealand. It *is imported that the estate is worth, . £800,000. Mr Moore is a: Justice of - the Peace, and a widower with one in-:.:-.fani son. ' AN ESTATE IN CHANCERY. LONDON, June 23. This Court of Chancery has ordered the compulsory winding up of Qhaplin, Milne, Grenfell, and Co., Ltd. A. M. Grenfell's pictures will be sold at Christie's on Friday. They include one each:'by Titan, Cuyp, Gains- ~* borough, and Lawrence, and! several by Reynolds. Grenfell spent extraordinary sums on his home. MEAT TRUST COMMISSION. MELBOURNE, June 24.Before the Meat Trust Commission, the heads of several firms denied any . arrangement to ship meat to America. >v One stated that America had ceased to export meat, which means that Australia was supplying markets previously supplied by the United States. A MYSTERIOUS CRIME. ADELAIDE, June 24. The body of an unknown man, who has been dead apparently for six weeks, was' found in the bush at ; Sedan with bullet wounds in the •' head. Indications point to an attempt to burn the remains. NEW THEATRE IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, June 24. The City Council has approved of, ttie plans of the J. C. Williamson Company's large new theatre in ~ tßathunst Street. > EXTRADITED TO AUCKLAND. SYDNEY, June 24. William Bellot. has .been ordered to be extradited to Auckland to answer a charge of obtaining £18 by means -of a valueless cheque from George "Oou.rt on October 19th. . Defendant T*as arrested at Tofiia. .He gave the name of Doyle. ' ' EARTHQUAKE DISTURBANCES. PERTH^ June 24: The- Observatory seismograph re-r-ooJeded earthquake disturbances 3500 miles distant.' •