5. First opening of the Bisley rifle ranges for shooting on Sunday.
6. Explosion in H.M.S. destroyer Albacore, at Chatham; three stokers killed.
7. At Little Chesterford, Essex, nine cottages, two public-houses, and other buildings were burnt; no lives lost.
—Completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. (See For. and Col. Hist., Chap. VIII., 2.)
8. The Prime Minister was returned unopposed to Parliament for East Fife on his appointment as Secretary for War.
—Announcement of the appointment of Lieut.-General Sir H. Sclater, K.C.B., to be Adjutant-General of the Forces, vice Lieut.-General Sir J. S. Ewart, resigned.
9. The King of Sweden underwent a successful operation for gastric ulcer.
13. (Easter Monday). At Paris, in an International (Rugby) Football Match, England beat France by thirty-nine points to thirteen.
14. In the early morning, the East Coast Express from London to Aberdeen collided with a goods train near Burntisland and was partly derailed; the driver and fireman were killed and ten persons injured.