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BBITISH AND FOBEIGN. LONDON, September 7. Richard, the only son of Sip Arthur Lawley, Governor of Madras, was killed while hunting in the Nilgiri Hills on Saturday. Thomas James Stockall, of Stockall and Sons, jewellers, Clerkfcnwell road, where he was found bound and gagged on the 28th of November, 1904, has been arrested at Southtnd. He has admitted stealing £3000 worth of jewels that were supposed to be stolen by the allegtd gaggers. Miss Lottero, an Italian, who was formerly playing the Merry "Widow, was married in this city to Prince Herman, the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar's son and heir ( ?). The Prince has renounced his title. September 8. The. imports into the United Kingdom for August increased by £567,000, and the exports increased by £170,000, as compared with the previous August. Vere Goold, the murderer of Madame Levin at Monte Carlo, died in prison at Cayenne. Sixty persons are suffering from ptomaine poisoning at Bristol through' eating corned beef and pork. No deaths are reported. September 9. The Daily Chronicle reports 1 that the State of Arkansas is suing the 65 companies which are included in thy socalled insurance trust. It is alleged that it is an illegal combination, and the State asks the court to fine the insurance companies £13,000,000, and also to expel them from Arkansas. Lord Kitchener had a remarkable series of farewells during his journey. The wholfc of the garrisons turned out at the various stations to cheer him. The select committee on imprisonment for debt reports against its complete abolition, as the threat of imprisonment is the only argument for a certain class of debtors. The committee proposes a reduction in the Statute of Limitations to three years instead of six, -and it is recommended that imprisonment be not permitted in usury and betting cases. September 12. Aldjed, the printer of the Indian Sociologist, was sentenced to 12 months* imprisonment . George Taylor, Russell, and John Taylor were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for their burglary of Mappin and Webb's jewellery establishment -on the 22nd August. Gurroii was sentenced to eight years, and Knight was acquitted. The War Office is experimenting in the lisa of boy scouts in connection .with the regular army manoeuvres September 13. Two tourists and their guide were caught in a windstorm and mist, and were [ frozen to death on Mount Jungfrau, in i the Alps. ! A Blue Book wEicli forms an appendix to the Royal Commission on the Poot Laws contains a report by Mr Cyril Jackson, expert to the Poor Law Commission, and the Rev. J. Pringle, contending that relief works, whether national or municipal, under the Unemployed Act, have intensified the evil. These gentlemen remark that industry is at present not organised economically, though the trade unions have done their best to steady labour. Any State or rate funds j should be spent for the aid of the unemployed, and should supplement trade union funds, and thus give a bonus for thrift. BERLIN, September 6. During the next three months Germany will be launching three 19,000-ton battleships and a 22,000-ton 27-knot cruiser, compared with Great Britain's Neptune, Indefatigable, and the small cruiser Blanche. ROME, September fc: The Pope has spent £50,000 beyond the subscriptions raised for the relief, of the people of Messina. i ST. PETERSBURG, September 7. Owing to the unsatisfactory state of I the Empress's health the Czar has abanj doned his proposed visits to Constantinople and Rome. Their Majesties intend to | remain at their summer residence at Livadia for a prolonged period. j September 8. Tliare are 25 deaths from cholera daily in this city. The total for the year is 5769, 88 per cent, belonging to the work mX classes. Preventive inoculation has bten applied in 55,162 cases. September 9. A masked gang robbed the post office at Miass, in the district of Brenburg. After killing the watchman and three polict.men and wounding 10 other persons, the murderers escaped. BUDA-PESTH, September 7. Lieutenant Hofer, with fivt men in motor boats at Pressburg, during some tests, and while attempting to overtake a floating mine (his own invention), collided therewith. Hofer and two others were blown to pieces, and the rest were badly injured. ADANA. September 8. In connection with the massacres at Adana last April, Djevad Bey, ex-Vali of the district, has been sentenced to six years' exclusion from the public service, and Remzi Pacha, the military commandant, to three years' imprisonment. Other officials were acquitted. The Armenian Patriarch has resigned as a protest against, the inadequacy of the sentences and the

passing of sentence of death on four mnga cent Armenians. NEW YORK, September 12. The population of New York 5| 4,338,322, an increase of 901,000 since 1900. The Census Bureau estimates thati the population of the United States in 1910 will be between 90,000,000 andj 95,000,000, September 13« ProfessoT Emery (of Yale University}, Mr Renolds (Assistant Secretary of the 1 Treasury), and Mo* Sanders (Chicago, editor of the Breeders' Gazette) compose the Board of Authorities under the tariff law to assist President Taft in regard to the application of the maximum and mtniimiTn. clauses of the tariff..