(FROM OUR OWN coRREsroNDENT.) PARIS. JUNE 13. The Temps states that the draft of mining regulations winch has just been drawn up by the uchnical commission appointed by the British. French, Spanish, and German Governments for submission to the diplomatic representatives of the P

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CAPE TOWN. it - NE 14.* Major-General Scobell. the late Administrator of Cape Colony. will to-morrow for England on board the Union-Castle liner Saxon. lie will resume the Cape military command In September. General Scobell was entertained to-day at a luncheon at the City respon

It was decided yesterday at a meeting at the Royal United Service Institut/00, Whitehall. to form • society for the study of nautical arclueology. Mr. W. L. R•A.. presided, and among those present were Admiral Sir R. N. Custance. Sir J. K. Laughton, Rear-Admiral Sir R. M. Blomfi

By Invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Rothschild, a meeting lil he held on Mueeday afternoon next. June fl. at Ciunnershnry Park, on of the work of the Church Army, with especial reference to the League of Friends of the Poor and the Boys Aid Department. Tho Bighop of Southampto

At a meeting of the London operative bakers' strike committee it Ncr.s decided to write to the blaster Baker.' Society asking for a definite reply by March I as to whether they will grAnt the demands of the committee. If the renly.i. , chic the str;ke notices the following The s

THE CITY At ye.,terday'A meeting of the Conn of l'or f e j; Council. the Of and Chita' ente to the appointment of the licsrl•Me recommended(l) that the remain mai ( 2 ) that th.. salary be g 1,500 per annum: age limit for eandidates he axed • ( 4) OW mitten select. five candidate

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A CENTRAL COMMITTEE PROPOSED. The King has sent £2OO and the Queen and Queen Alexandra have sent £lOO each to the Lord Mayor for the Captain Scott Fund. The Lord Mayor received the following letters on Wednesday night : Privy Purse Office. Buckingham Palace, Feb. 19, 1913. My Lo