The Court Martial which has tried the survivors of the Submarine A 8 has not revealed with any deyree of certainty the cause of the disaster, and in order to tind out this ® number of experiments are tu be made, The Qourt finds that the immediate cause of the disaster was water g ting into the open conning tower, the buoyancy and trim of the vests] having been tore! from some unexpl ined cause. It pretty clear, however, that the cause lay any error of judgment on the part of officers or crew, nor in any sudden accident, but rather in some inherent defect in the design of the submarine. This of course makes the mitter_much more serious, and there are indications that manceuvring with Ysubmarines will be practieslly ~uspended until the cause of the disaster has been ascertained.
Ascot and the Canadian Manufacturers.
Splendid weather favoured the Ascot meeting this year, and as the King and Queen were there with a whole host of Royal Princes and Princesses, it proved one of the most brilliant, and certainly the most largely-attended, Ascot meet on record. Among the most interested spectators yesterday, which was Cup Day, wore the Canadian Manufacturers, who. have come over nearly 200 strong, many of them accompanied by their wives and members of their families, as delegates of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associ tion, They lind already made the acquaintance of their Sovereign and his Consort on the previous Saturday, having received on their landing a command to the Royal presence at Windsor.
heir example has inspired the formation this country of a British Manufacturers' Association—a combination of manufacturers formed not for the purpose of engaging in trade but in order to promote foreign trade in British manufactures by means of lectures, publications, and investigations. It seems to promise well.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.