Amsterdam, Apr. 24, Queen Withemina of the Netherlands to-day pulled a handle which opened the gates of the new lock Ymuiden, in the ship canal connecting Amsterdam with the North Sea.
The huge basin, the biggest of its kind in the world, took ten years to build and cost 18,000,000 gui Te will enable the greatest to reach Amsterdam.
The Minister of Waterways, in the: course of a speech at the opening. ceremony, said that the work had been conceived and executed by Dutch engineers and Dutch enterprise and was "a monument to Dutch national energy."—Reuter, 10 of Gozo recently:
lar edict forbidding IConstitutionalists to approach Easter communion and receive absolution and forbidding citizens to attend [Constitutionalist meetings or race-meetings organized upon the occasion of the opening of the Constitutional Club, Members of the Constitutional Party demand a suspension of the elections.
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