Cotton growing.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4592, 29 April 1904, Page 2

Cotton growing.

London, April 28. — In the House of Commons a number of Members urged Government to encourage cotton growing within the Empire. Lyttelton, Seoretary for the Colonies, announced that a cotton growing association would contribute £30,000 yearly for three years for the development of cotton growing in Lagos, Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone, j while those Colonies would con- ' tribute £6,500 yearly. Sensational ocourrenoe. St Petersburg, April 28. — A sensational occurrence is reported from Warsaw, Russian Poland. / Two officers,-— a deputy chief detective, and a deputy* police commissary, — accompanied by two policemen, were entering a house, when they were attacked by an armed gang and the two officers were killed. ! Dangerous gang dispersed. Capetown, April 26 —The supposed Lydenburg bushrangers are part of a gang of two hundred recruited from the riffraff of Johannesburg and Pretoria. Four hundred constabulary and a number of civilian volunteers were summoned to prevent an anticipated attempt to loot the town. They dispersed the gang and split it into small parties, who fled baok into the country.