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GENERAL NEWS.

Gift of £10,000 to Merthyr. Ata meating recently of the Merthyr E Incation Committen, the Mayor handed in a letter from Mr. H. Seymour Berry, who offered to equip a technical mining and engineering institute at a cost of £10,000, in com- memoration of the part bie late father, ex Alderman J. M. Barry, had taken in the public life of the town. On the motion of the Mayor the offer was accepted with thanks. The opinion was expres.. sed that there would be no diff- calty as to the endowment fuad". Germany and the London Air Raids,

A semi-official telegram from Berlin states that the German press, referring to British and French indignation at the air attack on the fortress" of London, ears: 1 Bagland wants to apare civiliane she can remove them from the immediate neigh. bourhood of storing plicee for war requirements. Folkestone, Dover, Sheerness, and London sta such storing places," The telegram continues:-"Tae Ger- man people, under the pressure of England's starvation war, hare become a hard race with an iron fist. England has felt this and will experience it again to marrow, Eagland may lie,!! deceive, threaten. Tae bummer in our fist will fall anmercifully And shatter the places where England forgee ber weapone agsinet as. So it shall certainly ..be."

Big Price for a Raeburn. "A" enperb presentment of a Highland chieftain realized 24,- i 200 goineas on July 6, sad when Raebarn painted this mighty portrait of The Macash" he succeeded ones for all in making = ' canvas blaze with the unquench- able spirit of the Highlander in all its doar ferocity. The real "Monarch of the Glen" confront- ed the company at Christie's, epitomizing at a glance the truth of Scott's lines:-"Come dad, come all this rock abal! file Frics ite firm base 38 8000 na 1" R splendent in the uniform of the eighteenth century national sear vice of the Brandalbans Fenci- bles, the twelfth (and last) lineal Iaird of Macaab was seen by Rae- burn as he grimly knew himself to be, and as the proad and in- domitable Highlander would always be. And well does the enemy know it to-day.. There is still a kind of Homerio legend ip Scotland about Tas, Mscsab, and it was in fall song chartly after | the death of the chieftain, who lies boried near the grave of Fiogal. In the tere

yaga d'an Frenosia" French visitor in 1816 bore witness to thie Scottish "heros d'Homere," who left a posterity of "trente a quaraule Macnaba." Sir Thomas Lawrende declared the Raeburn “ Macnab” to be the finest portrait of a man within his ken.

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After a temporary cenastion the Chinese pirates on the Yellow Se poast are again showing activity and giving mach, trouble, so the terror of crews of the jacks

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Peking will soon see the last of For some time past the Japanese nounose in the Times that he has the Kettler Monument, says the police suthorities have been received the sum of £20,000, and Peking Daily News. The Prime patalling the cost. in efforts to has been asked by the doro to Moister, General Tang Chi-jai, bring the marandera to justice. administer the same in gifts of is serioudy considering whetter O Saturday afternoon (18.b alt). £1,000, to be divided between the or not this testimony to Prussian wh D the Japanese police capsia, cfficers and crew of any Tengeance should be left stand- were escorting acme Chinese merchant ship fizing the Bitish ing Several telegrama have criminals to Pitewo, they met a flag which after July 6 succeeds, been received requesting the junk of about 2,000 koka burthen in the opinion of the Admiralty, removal of this unplessant re which turned out to be manned in capturing or destroying minder of China's hamiliation. by Chinese pirates. The police enemy submarine. Applications Opinion is sharply divided opened fire on the pirates, who for this reward are to be med regarding the question of the responded, bat were eventually through the owners to the chair earing down of the Monument. beaten off. The police reported man of Lloyd's Register of Some prominent Chinese bold the the occurrence on arrival at Pisse Shipping 17, Fanoharch-street, visits to remain as wo. On receipt of the report, London, EC 3

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