The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1897.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11424, 12 November 1897, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1897.

The French and German newspapers, commenting on the speech of Lord Salisbury at the Guildhall banquet, speak of it as conciliatory and pacific.

The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Colonel Adams, Viscount Fincastle and Lieutenant Costello, for bravery in the Indian frontier campaign.

The Premier of Canada states that he has reason to believe that 15,000 Australians .will proceed to Klondyke in the spring. The Natives of Ilesha, on the Niger, have defeated a French force, killing several men and wounding their commander. The French were crossing the British Hinterland, and had impressed the Natives as carriers.

Great Britain has intimated to France that the occupation of Fashoda, which was contemplated by the expedition under the late M~. Clochett, would be considered as a distinctly unfriendly act. Greek newspapers charge the Emperor of Germany with attempting to secure the selection of his brother-in-law. Prince Adolph of Schaumburg Lippe, for the Governorship of Crete. Messrs Krupp’s factory at Essen has received an order from the Turkish Government to modernise the armaments of five warships. The annual show of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association was opened yesterday, when most of the classes were judged. To-day, “ people’s day,” various attractions will be provided.

. At the Melbourne wool sales on Wednesday there was animated competition, and the market was slightly firmer all round. At Adelaide, on Wednesday afternoon, a cloud of dust obscured the sun, and gave it the appearance of a ball of fire. The children in a public school, observing it, stampeded, crying hysterically, believing that the end of the worid had arrived. The Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Conference met again at Auckland yesterday morning, when routine business was transacted, and the supernumerary fund and foreign commitees were appointed. An official reply from the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference of 1894 to the address sent Homo by the last conference was read, and a committee was appointed to draw up a reply.