... THE. TEMPERANCE CONGRESS. The World'3 Temcperance, Coflgress reaseremed yesterday at the Medical Examination Hall, Victioria' Embankment. The general morning session was presided over by Mr. J. R. Diggle, who deliv-ered ai address on emporance Inastruction in Coiege dod Schools -a rEmos- promising. branch of teimperance work-he said. and one which, during the las thirty years, had taken a ...

... THE HU.RRICANE IN TEXAS. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD. [Press Association Foreig 1S9eiL3 Nsw Your, September 13.-M y of the bodies which were thrown into the bay have been washed ashore again, and the work of picking them up is so trying that few of the men engaged in it are able to continue the task for more than ten minutes at a time. It will never be known how many perished, as it has been ...

... TH LATE DUKE OF TECH Letters of adminjetration (with the wfill annexed) of thepersonalestate, vatuedat 3,321 5s I&d gros, and £20,779 net, of his Higlness Prince Francis Paul Charles onis Alexander, Duke of Tech, of the White Lodge, Richmond Park. G. Cay , who died on Jannary 21 last, aged sixty-two years, have been granted to his daughter, Princess Victoria Mary Augusta -Louise, Duchess of ...

... KING- EDWARD'S SCHOOL. ANNUAL REPORT. e) The report of the Governors of King Edward's c' School for the year 1899 has just been issued. The W vacancy among the Co-operative Governors, caused by the resignation during the year 1898 of Mr. tl S. Timmirin- was filled on 25th January by the elec- tion of the Rev. A. J. Robinson M.A4. On the 26th a April the resignation of Mr. J. b. Goodman was re ...

... GENEPA.L BULLER'S PROBABLE PLAN, Mr. Charles Williams discusses in to-day's London MVornin, Loader General Buller's probable plan. Mr. Williamns does not think the crossing was effected at Trichardt's Drift, and says: -Our guess was, and. is that- the main effort was made to the east of Zwarts iop, and, when the crossing was effected, continued under cover of the guns on twvo eminences on the ...

... AN TMOMtANT CORRECTON. 3IN REPORTED DEAD ARE PRISONERS. The War Offie an Saturday issued the following es MeasSg:- 7 rom General Communications, Capetown, to Sects- Yty of State for War: is PCAETowN, February 2.-Referring to my telegram Iti January 21, information (has been) received from Pre- e toria that error has been mde, and that the men belonging to the 1st Coldstream Guards, 2nd ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL _ITELLIGENCE. The use of palms in cathedrals and parish churches on Palm Sunday-in many cases specially brought from Palestine-is increasingly common, but the bene-; diction, distribution, and procssion of palms is still comparatively rare in Anglican churches. It took place or. Sunday at St. Michael's, North Kensington,, St._ Mark's,- Marylebone, and perhaps some twenty other ...

... FRANCE AD ER COLONIS. Fl'a AiUtAl tIs§ Uro& TUSl. A rebpiort by Mr. Auish Lee, a donitnercial ?? to the British Eibias'y on Pans, just issend by teb Fbrigi Oice, donisile iii a caht'enit f i ?? deail of informaion ?? the Fta lchd coloni~es3, tbeir.. adririinistratior, and their commercial relattoi. Mr. Lee remarks tha the expena iod which has taktii plse3 in itt c0oonial enipire is, peihaps, ...

... SEW BRITISH PATENTS. A bsrds coudflbutcd by, lr. SkfrrnS& and taken frn the official list of local patentfs :- SA CYCLE 4aso Greta Frnnccs.th No. 6,479 J. Cutian, of London.-Velocinedes : Vi, According to this invention it is proposed to em~ploy a bicy-cle frame, so constructed that either one or two front we wheels can be used -upon the machine. To this end the PO Ifork for receiving the ...

... WRECKS, STORMS, AND IFLOODS TR[RN MWN DROWNED. STRANDDED LInER TOW-ED OFF. ThePelotas,, the Hambrbi:South AmerinliasnerwhicF stranded on the sands at Dngeness on Fridayn b. was 51i001551n11y towed off yesterday moung , nd a ef for Rotterdam. It was about eight o'clock oan Friday night wien the Pelowas stranded. Fr some time before she was seen to be in danger flare lights were observe to be ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LoxnDoN, Monday Sight. at A urPORT reaches me to-night that the rec Queen is considering a scheme by which she cit will make herself personally resptorsible for the m: education of a number of children orphaned Fr during the war in South Africa. The scheme, it is said, has been designed by Princess Henry sil of Battenberg; but it owes its inception to the benevolent ...

... A-ND JOURNAL. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1900. LocAL WPATagr FoREwAsT.-Westerly to out&-we&eterly winds, lisit; fair. NEWS OF THE DAYM. Tn the House of Lords,'yesterday. Lord SALis- BUFRY informed Lord KIEUBER.LEY that the papers on affairs :n China wgere in an advanced state, and he hoped the delay in their publication would not be long. The Duke of DEvONsHInE moved the second reading of the Edocation ...