Baird, second baronet; had served during the Russian War in the Baltic, and shown himself an able strategist during the naval manœuvres of 1888. On the 8th, suddenly, at Dijon, aged 48, the Rev. Robert Charles Fillingham, Vicar of Hexton, Herts; in early life a most fervent High Churchman, subsequently a Liberal ultra-Protestant and somewhat erratic Evangelical; had incurred episcopal censure for assisting to ordain a Nonconformist Minister. On the 9th, at Bombay, Caroline, Lady Clarke, dau. of General H. P. Fellowes, and wife of Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay; a Lady of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem; greatly esteemed both in India and Victoria, where her husband was Governor 1901-4. On the 9th, aged 34, Harold Tremayne, Literary Secretary of the Tariff Reform League, 1903-6. On the 10th, aged 67, Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., London manager of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank from 1890 to 1905, and a leading authority on Chinese finance; knighted 1901. On the 10th, aged 76, Robert Durning Holt, first Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and for more than thirty years a member of the City Council; a prominent Liberal and active in charitable work. On the 12th, Mme. Elodie Mijatovich, wife of a prominent Servian publicist and ex-Minister, herself an English woman and author of a history of modern Servia and writer in various journals (notably the Speaker) on the politics of her adopted country. On the 12th, aged 79, James Sheil, from 1879 to 1904 a Metropolitan Police Magistrate, and a Bencher, and sometime Treasurer of Gray's Inn. On the 12th, aged 53, George Herbert Brown, sometime High Sheriff of co. Down, a prominent yachtsman. On the 13th, aged 65, the Rev. Arthur Gilbert Girdlestone, since 1877 incumbent of All Saints, Clapham Park; an active Evangelical and an Alpine climber. On the 14th, aged 58, Nicholas Valerianovitch Muravieff, Russian Ambassador to Italy since 1905, previously a member of the Russian Ministry; President of the Hague Court of Arbitration on the Venezuela claims in 1903, and in 1905 one of the Russian representatives in the peace negotiations with Japan. On the 15th, aged 77, Hugh Annesley, fifth Earl Annesley, sometime Scots Guards; had served with distinction in the Crimea and been M.P. for Cavan from 1857 to 1874; an Irish representative peer and an ardent horticulturist. M. (1) 1877, Mabel, dau. of Colonel W. T. Markham, who died 1891; (2) 1892, Priscilla, dau. of W. A. Moore; succeeded by his s. by the first marriage. On the 15th, at Naples, aged 63, Eustace Neville-Rolfe, C.V.O., Consul-General in that city. On the 16th, aged 61, at Allahabad, Sir Walter Colvin, brother of Sir Auckland Colvin, and for some years a member of the Legislative Council of Agra and Oudh. On the 16th, aged 46, the Hon. William Addington Winthrop Pellew, brother of the actual Viscount Exmouth and heir presumptive. On the 16th, aged 39, Robert Edward Codrington, Administrator of North-West and previously of North-East Rhodesia. On the 16th, aged 64, M. Edmond Stapfer, Dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Paris; author of a well-known work on Palestine in the time of Christ. On the 17th, aged about 68, the Rev. Frank Nutcombe Oxenham, D.D., Chaplain of All Saints' Church, Rome, since 1891, an advanced High Churchman and writer on eschatology. On the 17th, aged 85, Joseph Whittall, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., Assistant Secretary to the Royal Statistical Society from 1873 to 1891. On the 18th, aged 76, James Cleland Burns, brother of the first Lord Inverclyde, and a member of a family associated with the Cunard steamship line. On the 18th, aged 60, Reginald Stanley Faber, F.S.A., long Honorary Secretary of the Huguenot Society, and President of the Bibliographical Society in 1905. On the 19th, aged 64, Sir Thomas Cleeve, thrice High Sheriff of Limerick and prominent in various local industries. On the 19th, at the Hague, aged 51, J. Henry Texeira de Mattos, a well-known Dutch sculptor of animal subjects. On the 21st, aged 70, Sir Philip Alfred Muntz, Unionist M.P. for the Tamworth division of Warwickshire since 1885; one of a prominent Warwickshire family of German extraction; himself a keen agriculturist and breeder of Shire horses. M. 1859, Rosalie, dau. of his uncle, P. H. Muntz, M.P.; made a baronet in 1902; succeeded by his s. On the 21st, aged 78, Major-General Dawson Stockley Warren, C.B.R.A., had served with distinction in the Crimea, in the Afghan War of 1880, and in the Soudan in 1885. On the 22nd, aged 57, John Laidlay Bashford, for some years a lecturer at Berlin University and Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and Westminster Gazette; an ardent promoter of Anglo-German friendship. On the 22nd, aged 78, Thomas McKie, Hon. LL.D. Edin., advocate of the Scotch Bar, author of a volume of poetry and travels, and Liberal candidate for Dumfries in 1886 and 1892. On the 23rd, at Agra, aged 24, Other, Robert Windsor-Clive, Viscount Windsor, eldest s. of the Earl of Plymouth, A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India. On the 23rd, at Colombo, en route to Australia, Harold Wright, Stipendiary Magistrate in the Staffordshire Potteries since 1893, Liberal candidate for the Chorley division of
Lancashire in 1885 and for Greenock in 1886. On the 24th, aged 67, the Ven. Albert Eden Seymour, Prebendary of Exeter, Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Vicar of Ilfracombe, previously Vicar of Barnstaple and of Bromsgrove; an advanced High Churchman and respected parish priest. On the 24th, aged 80, Baron (François Auguste) Gevaert, Director of the Brussels Conservatoire, an operatic composer, and a historian of music. On the 25th, aged 57, John Francis Waggett, an eminent equity draftsman and Chancery barrister. About the 26th, William Blain, C.B., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Auditor of the Civil List. On the 27th, aged 76, William Milner Fawcett, F.R.I.B.A., architect of the Cavendish Laboratory and various new College buildings at Cambridge. On the 28th, aged 84, Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, sometime Scots Guards; distinguished himself in the Crimea. On the 29th, aged 71, Edward Augustus Gruning, F.R.I.B.A., a well-known architect, chiefly of modern buildings in the City of London. On the 31st, aged 74, Sir Surr William Duncan, first Bart.; a large manufacturer at Leeds and benefactor of the district; unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Pudsey, W.R. Yorks, 1885, and for Wisbech, Cambs, 1891 and 1892; cr. 1905; m. (1) Mary, dau. of William Kenyon; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Copley Heaton; succeeded by his son. In December, at Madras, aged 59, Prof. Richard Pischel, Professor of Sanskrit in Berlin University since 1902, previously at Halle, Kiel, and Breslau, and author of an authoritative grammar of Sanskrit.
The figures between [ ] refer to PART I.
ACCIDENTS.-AEROPLANE, Wright, O.,
28. EXPLOSIONS, Boyertown, cine-
matograph exhibition, 2; Glebe Coal-
mine, 5; Maypole Colliery, Abram,
26; Norton Hill Colliery, 11; Rad-
bod Coal-mine, Hamm, 34. MISCEL-
LANEOUS, Barnsley, cinematograph
entertainment, 1; Calais, six visitors
drowned, 26; Castle Street, houses
collapse, 10; Hamstead Colliery, 7;
Lötschberg tunnel, avalanche and inun-
dation, [349], 7; Matlock, floor over a
swimming bath collapses, 31; Sprules,
A. M., and F. A., killed, 31. RAIL-
WAY, Berlin Elevated, 29; Braybrooke
(Australia), 12, [474]; Contich, 15; Gri-
solles, 34; Owencarrow, 6; Wembley,
8. SHIPPING, see Shipping Disasters.
TRAMCAR, Bournemouth, 13
ACLAND, F. Dyke, appointed Financial
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Secretary to the War Office, [81]
AERIAL, Navy League, [294]
AEROPLANE, flights of, 2, 27, 28
AFGHANISTAN.-AMIR, his attitude
during the Zakka Khel and Mohmand
expeditions, [373]. Arms, transport
of, into, attempt to check, [373]
AFRICA, EAST. ABYSSINIA, Cabinet
Council instituted, [416]; Convention
signed with Italy, [416]; Menelik,
Emperor, his administration, [416];
nominates a successor, [416]. BRITISH
EAST AFRICA, land policy and settlers,
[418]; Revenue, [417]; trade, [417].
GERMAN EAST AFRICA, [419]. MOZAM-
BIQUE PROVINCE, trade, [420]. NYAS-
SALAND, "Chanjiri" the prophetess,
her influence, [419]; population, Euro-
pean, [419]; railway opened, [420];
trade, [419]. SOMALILAND, guns, im-
portation, convention preventing,[417];
Mullah, his raids, [416]. UGANDA,
famine, [418]; Kisii tribesmen, ex-
pedition against, [418]; sleeping sick-
ness, [418]; segregation camps, [419];
Commission of Investigation, [419]
NORTH.--ALGERIA, Germans, mu-
tiny, [424]; population, European,
[424]; trade, [424]. MOROCCo, Abdul
Aziz, Sultan, his downfall, [420], 26;
defeat, [422]; abandons hope of recover-
ing his kingdom, [423]; Casablanca,
Foreign Legion, deserters from, [272],
[298], [423]; troops withdrawn, [423];
cost of operations, [423]; trade, [424]
AFRICA, NORTH, continued.
Maclean, Kaid Sir H., released, [421];
Mulai Hafid, proclaimed Sultan, [420],
[422], 1, 26; his Note to the Powers,
[423]; Settat Pass, defeat at, [421];
trade, [423]
SOUTH.-BASUTOLAND, cattle dis-
eases, increase of, [409]; revenue,
[409]; trade, [409]. CAPE COLONY,
Budget, [403]; Cape Town, war me-
morial unveiled, 8; capital, question
of a, [404]; Education Bill, [404];
elections, [403]; Hely Hutchinson,
Sir W., Governor, opens the Assembly,
[403]; Merriman, Mr., Premier, [403]
Ministry, the new, [403]; trade, [404]
Union, closer, opinions in favour, [403]
Convention, [404]. Federation or uni-
fication of the South African Colonies,
[406]; National Convention, [406].
NATAL, Dinizulu, his trial, [127], [182],
[183], [404]-[406]. Indemnity Act,
[405]; Indians, immigration of, Com-
mission on, [406]; Jellicoe, Mr., his
charges against the Government, [405];
McKenzie, Col. Sir D., forces demobi-
lised, [404]; Nathan, Governor Sir M.,
at Nkandla, [404]; Nyombolwana,
executed, [406]. ORANGE RIVER
COLONY, Bloemfontein - Kimberley
Railway, opened, [407]; cost, [407];
Education Bill, [407]; trade, [408].
RHODESIA, Southern Asiatics, registra-
tion of, [408]; railway extension, [408];
settlers, regulations for, [408]. SWAZI-
LAND, Administration of, [408].
TRANSVAAL, Chinese, number of, [402];
Crewe, Lord, Colonial Secretary,
[400]; Englishmen, dismissal of, [22],
[182], [402]; Estimates, [401]; Gandhi,
Mr., arrested, [398]; sentenced, [399];
Gold industry, law, [401], 10; produc-
tion, value of, [402]; Het Volk Con-
gress, [402]; Immigrants' Restriction
Act of 1907, Bill amending, [400]
Indians, refusal to register, [398];
Johannesburg, census, [402]; repres-
sion of crime, [402]; unemployment
in, [401]; Registration Act, difficulties
of working, [398]-[401]; Smuts, Mr.,
on the difficulty of working the Regis-
tration Act, [399]
WEST. ANGOLA, cocoa plantations,
slave labour on, [427]; railway con-
struction, [427]; trade, [427]. CONGO
FREE STATE, in Parliament, [10], [45],
[46], [181]; memorial to Sir E. Grey,
[252]; Anglo-Congolese Commission,
[430]; Belgium, transference to, [342],
[428]-[430]. FRENCH WEST AFRICA,
Lake Chad, drying up, [430]; Maure-
tania, expedition against, [430]. GAM-
BIA, revenue, [430]; trade, [430].
GERMAN SOUTH-WEST, Lüderitz Bay,
diamond field, discovery of, [428];
railway opened at, [427]. GOLD COAST,
Coomassie settlement, [427]; Northern
Territories, [427]; Plague, bubonic,
outbreak of, [427]; revenue, [427];
trade, [427] KAMERUNS, trade, [431].
NIGERIA, NORTHERN, Anglo-German
Boundary Commission, [425]. Bauchi,
Mahdist movement, crushed, [424];
population, [425]; railway construc-
tion, [425]; revenue, [425]; Senussism,
report of, [425]. NIGERIA, SOUTHERN,
Lagos, [426]; Oshogo, railway to, [426];
railway construction, [426]; revenue,
[426]; trade, [426]. SIERRA LEONE,
[430]. TOGOLAND, [430]
AIRSHIPS, flights of, 25, 27
ALBERT HALL, meetings at, [105], [148],
[215], [240], 17
ALEXANDRA, Queen, in Scandinavia, [120];
Russia, [131], 16; Leeds, [162], 20;
Bristol, [162], 20; opens the new build-
ings of the Nurses' Royal National
Pension Fund, 20
ALINGTON, Rev. C., appointed Head Master
of Shrewsbury School, 10
AMBASSADORS, appointment of, Barclay,
G. H., 24; Buchanan, Sir G., 27;
Cartwright, Sir F. L., 26; Goschen,
Rt. Hon. Sir W. E., 26; Graz, C. L.
des, 24; Rice, Sir C. A. S., 24; Rodd,
Sir R., 24
AMERICA.-Vide Canada, Mexico, New-
foundland, United States, West Indies
CENTRAL.-COSTA RICA, Court of
Justice, inaugurated at Cartago, [460];
Transcontinental Railway, [460].
GUATEMALA, Cabrera, Señor, attempt
on his life, [460]; Transcontinental
Railway, opened, [460]. NICARAGUA,
Zelaya, President, plot against, [460].
PANAMA Canal, controversy as to plans,
[445]; progress of, [460]; number of
men employed, [461]. SALVADOR,
[460]
SOUTH.-ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, Al-
corta, Senhor, attempt on his life,
[465]; Budget, [465]; elections, [465];
revenue, [465]; trade, [465]. BOLIVIA,
Guachalla, Señor F., elected President,
[466]; railway construction, [467].
BRAZIL, Arbitration, Treaty of, with
Argentine, [464]; Budget, [464]; Co-
tinga River, source of the, [464]; Debt,
consolidated external, [464]; National
Congress opened, [464]; revenue, [464];
trade, [464]; United States fleet at
Rio, [465]; warships, order for, [463].
CHILI, Cabinet policy, [466]; Budget,
[466]; Montt, President, his Adminis-
tration, [466]; Valparaiso, Customs re-
ceipts, [466]; Pan-American Scientific
Congress at, [466]. COLOMBIA, [467].
AMERICA, SOUTH, continued.
ECUADOR, Guayaquil and Quito Rail-
way opened, [467]. PARAGUAY, Na-
veiro, Señor E., installed President,
[466]; revolution, [466]; trade, [466].
PERU, Pardo, President, attempt on
his life, [466]. URUGUAY, Customs
revenue, [465]; Judicial reforms,
[466] VENEZUELA, Castro, President,
his departure, [467]; demonstrations
against, [467]; Foreign relations, [467];
Ministry, the new, [468]; policy, [468]
ANDERSON, Mrs. G., elected lady mayor at
Aldeburgh, [221], 34
ANDERSON, Sir R., his protest against the
Licensing Bill, [164]
ANIMALS, living, number of experiments
on, 17
ANNIVERSARIES, celebration of, Austria,
Emperor of, his accession, 35; Owen,
Robert, 16; Salvation Army, 24
ARABIA.-HEDJAZ Railway to Medina,
opened, [328], [373]. REVOLT in,
[328]; pacification, [328]
ARGYLL, Duke of, marble bust of, unveiled,
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ASIA. Vide Afghanistan, Arabia, Balu-
chistan, China, Hong-Kong, India,
Japan, Korea, North-West Frontier,
Persia, Siam, Tibet
ASQUITH, H. H., summoned to Biarritz,
[80]; appointed Prime Minister, [80],
10, 11; receives honorary degree at
Cambridge, [137], 17; receives the
freedom of Kirkcaldy, [199]; opens a
bazaar at Highbury, [215]; at the
Classical Association, Birmingham, 30;
elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen Uni-
versity, 33; at the Church House, 37
AUSTRALASIA.-Vide New South Wales,
New Zealand, Polynesia, Queensland,
Tasmania, Victoria
AUSTRALIA.-CAPITAL, site for, settled,
[470]. Cook, Hon. J., leader of the
Conservatives, [471]. Customs revenue,
distribution of, [471]-[473]. DEAKIN,
Mr., his Administration, [469]; re-
signation, [470]. Dudley, Earl of,
appointed Governor-General, [470], 8.
EXCISE Tariff Act, 1906, [469]. FE-
DERATION and the States, conflict be-
tween, [471]; financial relations, [471].
Fisher, Mr., his Ministry, [470].
KINGSTON, Hon. C. C., his death, [471].
LYNE, Sir W., his proposals on the
State debts, [472]. PREMIERS' Confer
ence at Melbourne, [472]. "Protec-
tion, the New," [469]. REID, J. H.,
retires from the leadership of the
AUSTRALIA, continued.
Conservatives, [471].
TRADE, [468].
UNITED STATES fleet, visit [470]. YASS-
CANBERRA, capital, [470]
SOUTH.-BOSANQUET, Adm. Sir D.
H., appointed Governor, 36. JENKINS,
Hon. J. S., Agent-General, resignation,
[476]. LABOUR party Administration,
[476]. PRICE, Hon. T., Premier, [476];
result of his visit to London, [476]. STATE
Governors, local appointment of, [476]
WESTERN.-BUDGET, [477]. ELEC
TION, general, [477]. GOLD mining
industry, [477]. STATE Governors,
method of their appointments, [477]
AUSTRIA - HUNGARY.-AEHRENTHAL,
Baron von, on foreign policy, [307]-.
[311]; on the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, [310]. Agram, riot
at, [304]. BIENERTH, Baron, his pro-
visional Cabinet, [307]. Bobrzynski,
Dr., Governor of Galicia, [306]. Bosnia
and Herzegovina, annexation of, [309]-
[312], [321]-[323], [329], [333], [335],
ESTIMATES, [305]. FOREIGN re-
lations, [307]. Hungarian Franchise
Bill, [305]. GERMANS and Czechs in
conflict, [307]. NOVI BAZAR Railway,
[308]. POTOCKI, Count, Governor of
Galicia, assassinated, [306],
PRAGUE, state of siege proclaimed,
[307], 36; Inter-Slavonic Conference
at, [307]-[317]. RAUCH, Baron, ap-
pointed Ban or Governor of Croatia,
[304]. SCHOOLS, Hungarian, free in-
struction in, [305]. UNIVERSAL suffrage
in Austria, result, [304]. University
students, strike, [306]. Wahrmund,
Dr., his criticism of Roman Catholic
doctrines, [306]
Francis Joseph, Emperor of,
celebration of his Jubilee, [304], 35;
meeting with King Edward VII., [308];
on the annexation of Bosnia and Herze-
govina, [309]
AVONMOUTH, Royal Edward Dock opened
at, [162], 20
BALFOUR, A. J., delivers the Sidgwick
Memorial Lecture, 3; honorary de-
gree of LL.D. at Manchester, [162],
20; address at the Labour Copartner.
ship Association meeting, 35; at the
Church House, 37
BALTIC and North Sea agreements, [120],
[302], [319], [362], [364], [370], 12
BALUCHISTAN.-AFGHANISTAN, attempt
to check the transport of arms into,
[373]. HANNA Valley, construction
of a dam across, [373].
State, trouble in, [373].
Seistan route, trade returns, [373]
BANISTER, Mr. and Mrs. A. N., suit against
the Rev. H. Thompson, 23
BANK of England rate reduced, 2, 7
BANKRUPTCY Acts, Report on the working
of the, 24
BARONETCIES conferred, Bell, Sir J., 18;
Brinton, Sir T. L., 18; Cheyne, Dr.
W. W., 18; Clouston, S. S., 34;
Critchett, Sir G. A., 34; Hatch, E. F.,
34; Kearley, H. E., 18; Perks, R. W.,
18; Robinson, J. B., 18
BATESON, W., appointed Professor of Bio-
logy at Cambridge University, 16
BELGIUM.-CLERICAL party, [340].
Colonial Law, [342]. Congo, annexation
of, [10], [45], [46], [341], [430]. ELEC-
TIONS, result, [338]-[340]. LABOUR
party, [341]. Liberal party, [341].
SCHOLLAERT, M., Premier, [338].
Socialist party, [340]. TROOZ, M., his
death, [338]
BERESFORD, Lord C., his relations with Sir
J. Fisher, [159]; with Admiral Sir P.
Scott, [160]
BILLS. See Parliament
BIRTH rate, fall of the, 14
BISLEY, National Rifle Association, 21, 22
BOAT races. See Sports
BORSTAL System, results of, 28
BOSANQUET, Admiral Sir D. H., appointed
Governor of South Australia, 36
BOSWELL, J., statue unveiled, 28
BOULTER, H., convicted of blasphemy, 4
BRASSEY, Lord, appointed Warden of the
Cinque Ports, 2
BRISTOL, University of, gift from H. O.
Wills, 2
BRITISH Association at Dublin, [258], 27
BRODETSKY, S., Senior Wrangler of Cam-
bridge University, 17
BUCHANAN, T. R., appointed Under-
Secretary for India, [81]
BUDGET. See Parliament
BULGARIA.-BUDGET, [335].
ELECTION,
general, [335]. GUBSHOFF, M., re-
called, [333]. INDEPENDENCE of, pro-
claimed, [333]. MINISTRY, change of,
[335]. ORIENTAL Railway, strike,
[333]. SOFIA, delegation of Young
Turks at, [334]. TURKEY, relations
with, [334]
Prince Ferdinand of, his reception
at Buda-Pesth, [309]; proclaims his
independence, [332]; manifesto, [334]
BURGESS, T. W., his attempts to swim the
Channel, 26
BURNS, J., summoned to Sandringham,
[210]; at the National Congress on
Infant Mortality, 9
BYE-ELECTIONS, [4], [16], [19], [140], 6,
7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 23, 24, 29, 35.
See Elections
CAMBRIDGE University, gift to, 8; honorary
degrees conferred, 17; Mathematical
Tripos, Honours List of the, 17; Bro-
detsky, S., Senior Wrangler, 17; new
wing of the Cavendish Laboratory
opened, 17
CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Sir H., his illness,
[69]; resignation, [80], 10; death, [84],
12; funeral, [85], 12
CANADA. - ALBERTA, purchase of the
"All-
Bell Telephone system, [455].
Red Route" for ocean transit, [452].
Annuities Bill, [453]. BOVEY, Dr. H.
T., appointed Rector of the Imperial
College of Science, 5. British Colum-
bia, Immigration Act, [455]. Bryce,
Mr., his visit, [449]. Budget, [450].
CIVIL Service, investigation into the
state and methods, [449]. Commercial
treaty with France, [447]. DocUMENTS,
original, production, [448]. ELECTIONS
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