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21. A disastrous explosion occurred during the trial trip of the torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch owing to the breaking of the con- necting rod of the high-pressure cylinder. Eight men were killed by scalding steam and seven others seriously injured, of whom three subsequently succumbed.
— The Dominion House of Commons rejected by 77 to 41 votes a resolution in favour of a preferential tariff for Canadian trade with the United Kingdom.
— At High Wycombe a fire originating in a chair factory destroyed two rows of cottages, rendering nearly 300 persons homeless, and doing damage to the extent of 20,0002. A serious fire also at Silvertown, North Woolwich, destroyed a great part of the premises of the Western Electric Company.
22. Mr. Elihu Root, a prominent New York lawyer, appointed Secretary for War in President McKinley's Cabinet.
— The Patriarch of the Catholic Coptic Church, nominated by the Pope, enthroned at Alexandria, thus renewing the relations between the Catholic and Coptic Churches after an interval of 700 years.
— The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, attended the International University Sports at Queen's Club Kensington. Of the nine events Cambridge won the mile, the half- mile, the quarter mile, and the three miles ; Oxford, the long jump, and Harvard the hundred yards, the hurdles, the high jump, and the hammer.
24. The following is a list of the principal competitions and prize- winners at the meeting of the National Rifle Association at Bisley :—
PRIZES.
Highest
Prices.
Distance.
possible score.
Winner.
Waldegrave (M.R.) -
800,900
100
Major Honourable T. F. Fremantle, 1st Bucks - 93
Albert (M.R.) -
800, 900, 1,000
175
Sergt. J. F. Martin, 5th V.B.H.L.I. - - - 161
Prince of Wales* 8(8. R.) -
200,600
100
Staff Sergt. Wattleworth, 2nd V.B. Liverpool - 95
Secretary for War's (S.R.) Duke of Cambridge's^. R. )
800
60
Lt W. Dunlop, 1st Lanark 49
900
60
Lt W. Dunlop, 1st Lanark 48
Alexandra (S.R.) -
600,600
70
Sergt. W. Graham, Border Rifles .... 69
St George's (S.R.) -
600,600, 800
120
Capt. H. Ormundsen, 5th Royal Scots - - -116
Halford Memorial Cup
(A.R.) ....
900,1,000
150
Major G. C. Gibbs, 2nd Gloucester Engineers - 134
Volunteer Aggregate (A.R)
900,1,000
150
Surg. Lieut. Bertram, R. Canadian * - - 136
Grand Aggregate
—
—
Surg. Lieut Bertram, R. Canadian - - - 360
All Comers' Aggregate -
—
—
A. -Sergt. Jones, 4th South Wales Borderers - - 167
Queen's (S.R.), 1st stage,
Bronze Medal
200, 600, 600
105
CorpL Felmingham, 2nd Norfolk - - - -101
Do., 2nd stage, Silver
Medal ....
500,600
125
Col. -Sergt. W. H. Mat- thews, 12th Middlesex —
Do., 3rd stage, Gold Medal ....
98,120 - - - - 218 Pt. W. Priaulx, Guernsey
800, 900, 1,000
160
Militia— 99, 114, 123 - 336
