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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10661, 23 May 1895, Page 6

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(Par E.M.S. Alameda at Auckland.) fPsa Press Association.] I y • - AUCKLAND, Mat 23. general summary. (Dates from Europe to May 1.) The great wheel at Earl Court, London, imitated from the Benia wheel, was "finished on April 27, with the exception of the wood work. It is said to be an improvement, and is much larger than the Chicago wheel. It has been sixteen months in- building. The committee appointed to raise funds for the purchase of the residence of the data Thomas Carlyle, in order to fit it up if; a Carlyle Museum, has already collected £1722, and it is expected that the purchase will be completed in May, and /that -the., Museum will open in June. Uteljrle’s writing-desk was among the article* recently auctioned off at the sale «( the belongings of Oscar Wilde. It -tehaght fourteen guineas, and was probably secured by one of the many Americans in London. • The late Corney Grain, who died shortly jifter his .'partner, German Reed, did so well; with the management of St George’s H»U that he left an estate worth .£16,000. There was great excitement during the polling on April 25 in East Wicklow as a mult of the action of Mr Sweetman, who has represented East Wicklow as a follower of Mr. Justin M’Carthy since the general election of 1892, seeking re-election as a supporter' 'of Mr John Redmond and an independent policy. At a.moeting on the evening of April 24 of Mr Sweetman’e supporter? at Arklow the crowd attacked Mr % J. Troy, local leader of the Parnelhtas. . A woman threw a stone, which destroyed one ofTroy’a eyes. . ■ , The English football season is closed, hyp ; r.nndnn despatch of April 27, and • Gazette publishes its annual football “ Butchei’a Bill.” The “ Bili ■hows ; th*t during the season there wore twenty iSeaths from injuries received on the field, and that over one blinds and fifty legs, arms and collar-bones ■were broken, besides many cases of concussion of the brain and spine, paralysis, knoecape split, and hundreds of minor Casualties. ’ i,..." \ The -.Edinburgh correspondent of the Tims, under date April 16, says that Professor Blinders Petrie, in q lecture delivered before the Edinburgh Royal Society,' declared that recent excavations , inade in a district thirty miles north of Thebes pointed to the existence three thousand years before Christ of a race qpite. distinct from the Egyptians. The comments editorially on the importance of Professor 'Petrie’s discovery in " transforming Egyptian history, and in .encouraging excavations in Greece and elsewhere. . . _ . There was a picturesque scene in Westminster on Thursday, April 11, when, in the presence of a large congregation, “ Royal Maundy ” was distributed to seventy-six poor men and to seventy-six poor'women, selected from the various .parishes to receive the Queen’s bounty. Each woman received £1 15s and each wiMi JB2. In addition both men and woman w;ere given specially-coined pennies, r .-The Dublin United Irishman, of April 11, learns, on the highest authority, that Mr John Dillon,, member of Parliament for Mast Mayo, was, after the last election, offered the position of Chief-Secretary for Ireland. . EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN. ' The Society for the Employment of Women in London has put its foot down, and! how. declares that Parliament ia .governing full-grown female operatives tco much, and has ranged women wage-workers With babies and incompetents. They are limited bylaw as to the hours of labour , and are not allowed to take any work home with them.’ Everything is meddled with in the law'except the vital matter of wages, and now the society comes forward Bad Parliament . to omit certain clause* in the Bactory_ Bill just brought 3 forward as vexatious so far as female workers are concerned, in isjhach '.as they enormously restrict the freedom of adnlt women to dispose of their ■, own labour, and seriously affect the woll--beihg of women working in different trades. In other words a woman feels competent to dp. more work, and so increase her wag s; she .wants Parliament to let her be her own judge in matters of labour, and leave mollycoddling legislation alone. ■ RELIEF OF CHITEAL. it'despatch was received at Simla on tie morning of April 22, from Sir Robert Low, commander of the British expedition against Umra Khan, confirming the r.nBoancement that the Chitral force had ■tten, relieved by. Colonel Kelly’s advanced {pice, that General Gatacre’a column had reached Dir, and that the main body was following rapidly. Regarding their move:'ments fche' London Chronicle recently said, Umra Khan is disposed of, a new meffter safely installed and our conditions agreed shall withdraw, leaving only a -political agent with a small escort at Chitral, conscious that we have shut the last open door oh the northern confine of qor Eastern Empire.” ' vraa caused in military ifcd other circles by the discovery by Sir Robert Low at Miankalia of a letter to Umra Khan from a Bombay firm, offering to supply him with every kind of weapon, andsncloiing photographs of quick-firing guM. ’ -• THE CHINESE-JAPANESE • .' QUESTION. A despatch from Tokio, Japan, on May l-'ssys that Japan must give her final muwer to Russia by May 7. The busand public anxiety are terrible; nothing is known; everything ia dreaded. 'When mediation by the United States was Tiiscassed last November by the authorities at Washington and Tokio the President prophesied that a league of European Power? would deprive Japan of the fruits of her victory. The Powers were carefully informed of Japan’s intentions, bub no opposition to them was then manifested. The blow was 'reserved till the treaty of peace wa* signed. The joint protest made on April 20 by Rusiia, Germany and France against the ratification of the China-Japanese

!! r r aaty of peace is well understood in ■'laglish diplomatic circles (according to a .London despatch to the Neiu York Herald). Ms a protest against tho secret Britishi ipanese understanding arrived at before I eace was finally arranged. In a word, Ragland has made a hard and fast combination with Japan, and the other Great Powers have joined in a like protest to prevent a possible consummation of tho alliance. THE TERMS OF PEACE. An authoritative statement of the terms of peace being negotiated between Japan and China have been secured from an official source. The terms are as follows; —First, the independence of Corea; second, tbe permanent cession of the Island of Formosa to Japan ; third, an indemnity of 100,000,000 of taole of Chinese coin, worth 1 dollar 33 cents; fourth, the permanent occupation of Port Arthur and immediate contiguous territory; fifth, a new Japan - China Treaty, opening the interior of China to commerce. The money indemnity is expressed in Chinese taels instead of Japanese yon. A tael is in reality a weight instead of a coin. The face value at 1 do! S 3 coats would bo equivalent to 300,000,000 in silver. It is said the actual vaUie would bo, however, between 200,000,000 dels and 220,000,000 in gold. The fifth term ns to new treaty includes various now features, such as free access to Chinese rivers. There is no demand for territory on the mainland outside of Port Arthur and its contiguous surroundings. WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM. The English police authorities have ascertained’that John Barnard, for whore arrest on tho charge of wholesale incendiarism a warrant has been issued, is in tho United States. His crime, however, is not covered by the extradition treaty, and consequently ho is safe from English justice. Barnard is charged with being accountable for eomo three hundred incendiaries in various parts of tho metropolis. The total payment by Insurance Companies on account of his operations reached £40,000. In one of tho firoa for which he is held accountable, seventeen girls came near losing their lives. Barnard’s accomplice, Alfred Warner Walsh, has been sentenced to seventeen years penal servitude for his share in these diabolical operations.