July.

1. Dominion Day celebrated as National Holiday by all Canadians.

2. Heavy failures in south Staffordshire iron trade. Orders given to recruit United States army to full strength in view of Indian troubles 1,100 French Communists have their sentence commuted. Roumanian and Montenegrin independence acknowledged by Congress. Pan-Anglican Synod opened at Lambeth.

3. Much suffering in Bolivia from drought. A large amount of buried treasure discovered in a ruined temple at Sorata. In Ohio and Indiana the movement against agricultural machines causes great alarm.

5. Mayor of Mont real issues a proclamation forbidding the Orange procession on 12th of July. Magistrates ask for military assistance to keep peace.

6. Canadian team arrive at Wimbledon. Jury in Oka case fail to agree

8. Turkey makes a treaty with England ceding her the Island of Cyprus, on condition of defensive alliance between the two countries.

9. Bush fires do great damage on the Ottawa and Gatineau. Rain falls at last in northern provinces of China. A Japanese Military College established.

10. Batoum ceded to Russia and declared a free port. Oregon Indians defeated by Gen. Howard. Destructive bush fires in Eastern Townships, Q.

11. A mob in Quebec visit hardware stores and carry off arms. 125 whites killed by the natives in New Caledonia. Orangemen of Montreal determine to walk. Four leading lawyers declare the procession illegal.

12. Riots in Montreal. Orangemen besieged in their hall by a mob Troops called out. Day passes peaceably in Ireland and United States.

13. Last sitting of Berlin Congress. Treaty of Peace signed. British troops, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, go to Cyprus

14. Rousseau centenary celebrated in Paris. Over 40 persons die of sunstroke in St. Louis. Mo. Pope submits secret allocution to Consistory. Extensive series of frauds upon Indians discovered in Dacotah.

16. British Plenipotentiaries return to England and meet with enthusiastic reception. Intense heat all over Canada and United States.

17. Strikes of iron workers and miners in France and of nail worker-in Birmingham. Bill for abolition of Legislative Council passed in Quebec Assembly. page 19 Typhus fever prevailing in Sydney, Australia. Thermal wave from Manitoba to Atlantic reaches New York.

18. Lord Beaconsfield makes his statement in House of Lords. Kolapore Cup won by British team. Elcho Shield by Irish team. Emergency meeting of Supreme Grand Lodge of Orangemen.

19. Six iron clads ordered to Cyprus Emigrants from Egypt going in numbers to that island. Intense heat in New York, over 60 cases of sunstroke.

20. Quebec Legislature prorogued. Mr. Gladstone refuses to resume Liberal leadership. German Emperor recovered from his wounds. Demonstrations in favour of annexation of the Tyrol held in various parts of Italy. Shumla evacuated by the Turks, and occupied by Russians.

22. Favourable change in commercial affairs in England. Queen confers order of the Garter on Beaconsfield and Salisbury. Further labour troubles in France.

23. Treaty of Berlin ratified by President MacMahon. Austrian army of occupation enters Bosnia.

24. Evacuation of Shumla commenced. 26 members of Parliament, resolve to oppose the grant to the Duke of Connaughtion his marriage.

25. Great mortality among refugees in Constantinople. Orangemen in Ireland guarantee £10,000 to test the legality of the order before the Privy Council Great distress in agricultural districts of Spain from drought and insects.

26. All the powers but Turkey ratify the Treaty of Berlin. Terrible famine in Southern Morocco. Great damage by floods in Illinois and Wisconsin.

27 Marquis of Lome accept Governor Generalship of Dominion. Dinner at Carlton Club to Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury by more than 500 Peers and Commoners. More severe fighting in the Transvaal.

28. Austrian troops enter Bosnia.

29. Debate on Lord Hartington's motion condemning Eastern policy of Government opened. Typhoid epidemic at Blackburn, Lancashire

30. Agreement between Great Britain and U. S. announced, giving subjects of each equal rights with natives in trademarks and labels. Sultan ratifies Treaty of Berlin. Serious illness of Cardinal Franchi

31. Papal Nuncio arrives in Germany to confer with Bismarck.