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Betting on tho University boat race is 6 to 1 on Oxford. Sir Claude Mac Donald is ill from overwork. He will shortly visit England. Lord Welby, previously v ; ce-Uh irman, has been elected Chairman of the London County Council in succession to MrT. McKinnon Wood. The Prince of Wales will shortly visit the nephew of the King of the Hellenes. The Sultan has invited the Prince to visit Constantinople when at Athens. The House of Commons, by a majority of 85, rejected a Bdl fixing the flash point of kerosene. The Government promised to introduce a Lamp Bill shortly to deal with the dangers of the use of low flash oil. The steamer Castilian, 8500 tons, belonging to the Allan line, which ran ashore in the Bay of Fundy, is a total 1033. The wife of Dr. George Willis has obtained a divorce. She tracked her husband to Barcaldine, Queensland, and elsewhere in the colonies, and finally discovered him after ten years' search at Grass Valley, California. In the House of Lords the Duke of Devouphire's Bill dealing with secondary ■education was read a first time. The death is announced of M. Emile Erckmann, the famous French novelist, aged 77. An explosion occurred on board the first-class cruiser Terrible in the English Channel. Several stokers were severely scalded and one killed. Mr Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at the Associated Chambers of Commerce dinner, said the Board of Trade was about to establish a commercial department to focus information on trade matters.