... in oas opinion, it was not qualified, and remarked thbat it. was no more fitted to conduct administration or war in Central Africa than the War Office was to conduct the administration. Sir JAMfES FERGUSSON defended the Foreign Office system, and thought ...

... they kill or capture in war. The latter are tortured before being put to death. In fighting with an enemy who has pressed them hard and caused them much loss the bodies are eaten very soon afterncapture, and when the heat of war is upon them. In this case ...

... NEWS FROM 'WEST AFRICA. AN LMPORTAINT EXPEDITION. POSITION IN SIERRA LEONE. PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPrCIAL. LIVERPOOL, TUs.SDAY.-The Elder Dempster liner Oron arrived here to-day with mails and pas- sengers from the West Coast of Africa. The rorn left ...

... NATIVE TOWNS DESTROYED. PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPEcWAL. Ln'RrccL, TimsSDnY.-The Elder Dempste? liner Benin, from, West Africa and Grand Canary, arrived this afternoon. Amongst her passengers were Major Reade, Captain Marsh, and nime non. commissioned ...

... serious personal injury. THE DE.CH OF MIR. ELLIOTT INs SOUTH AFRICA. The Press Association has received the following co'n-nunication from the secretary of the Consoli- dated Ooldfields of South Africa, Limited:-' I have to-day been shown a copy of a nmessage ...

... Hope from the Dutch, and it re-C mained in South Africa till 1817. t In the meantime a second battalion had been a raised, and it was this one which represented the a 83rd throughout the Peniniular War. In the pirig T9tht2hd' bolios, numbering 900 m ...

... expedition to Dongola and the cost of construction of the Nile railway. She has re- paid to 'the War Office £215,000, and the other money was spent .by the War Office partly for Eng- lish purposes. (Hear, hear.) . Mr. J. MORLEY thought the House would want ...

... attention to the administration of the Foreigni Office in Uganda, East Africa, and Z-anzi- bar. Mr. Kearley-On the navy estimates, to, coak at- tention to the manning of the Bleet in time of war. Kr. Labouchere-To oppose the motion that the Speaker leave the ...

... prepared for war. I do not believe that war is; imminent- I do not think that the danger of it is so great as it ha-s been during the period which separates us from the time when your ILordships were last assembled ; but the causes of war still sub~sist; ...

... proprietor of three newspapers, but they beat him completely. (Laughter.) -He thought their two newspapers, `A The World and The War Cry, were ex- ceedingly well printed, and their composition wa-s just about. as good as any they saw day by day. (Hear, hear ...

... themselves if they were forced into war they should have to go into war, but let them con- sider the earnage and slaughter there must be undes these modern arrangements if they were to break) into such a thing as a EuEropean war. Therefore, carefully considering ...

... rails were ni--l : ported, and Americans srrono :n i! ;L135,000 in bar gold was boii'ght .r: ?? of Enagland, and 121,000 ?? war.-v- drawn for South America. -r OwR industrial and trading posi`-in i;. ?? not more seriously threatened Tw : . by the development ...