Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRE At Buluwayo Matabeleland a vlru lent outbreak of the cattle plague has occurred I threatens to totally para yze the gold output by stopping thc transportation of supplies to the miners mi-ners The schooner Grace E Gribble went ashore at Point Pelce Lake Erie at 3 oclock yesterday afternoon There were six men In the rigging three of whom were washed ashore on wreckage wreck-age One of the men was Capt Wilson I Is said that Gen BobrlckofC will shortly be relieved of the post of Gov ernorGeneral of Finland In consequence conse-quence of his lack of tact and undue severity which has Infiammed public opinion among thc Finns almost to the point of a revolution The Dominion Government has decided de-cided to reduce the royally on gold mined In the Yukon district The roy loy alty Is now f per cent I has been decided to reduce It to 3 or perhaps toper prhaps 2Ms per cenU I will be coccted as an export tax In the future I Ranchmen and settlers In the vicinity of Atwood Kan arc arming themselves them-selves and It Is feared trouble will come aa a result of a quarrel over land In Rawllns and adjoining counties Itis feared It may become necessary to call on the State troops to prevent bloodshed blood-shed Emigration from the west of Ireland to America Is assuming what Is called alarming proportions During the DurlnS last fortnight hundreds of emigrants have passed through Limerick on their way to Cork Two special trains from Port Arlington carried nearly 1800 emigrants emi-grants A lifebuoy which belonged to the lost sloopofwar Condor was brought from Skldlgate aboard the steamer Tees Capt Hughes which vessel reached Vancouver B C yesterday The buoy was picked up by Hydah In dians on the east coast of Queen Char lotte Island The charges against Dr Hunter the American Minister to Guatemala em bodied In the Mobile news dispatches hav6 been Ithown to the Stale department depart-ment for a long lime Thc department attaches less Importance to Mrs Bar rloss complaint than lo those of American mining and engineering contractors con-tractors |