The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11462, 28 December 1897, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897.

The natives in a portion of Portuguese West Africa, have revolted. Germany is arranging to subsidise new steamship lines to India. The Chicago Coliseum, in which an exhibition of manufactures was being held, has been. destroyed by fire. Nine employes lost their lives and forty were injured. The damage is estimated at 700.000 dollars.

One hundred and sixty unions will be represented at the Convention of the Trades Unions of Great Britain. It is stated that 81,000 men are out of employment in consequence of the strike in the engineering trade. New Zealand frozen mutton is quoted in the London market as follows:—Canterbury, 3|d; Dunedin and Southland, 2-Hld; •and North Island, 2f d. River Plate mutton is quoted at d. The Cretan Assembly has published a protest against the injustice of the tribute it-has been called upon to pay Turkey.

A band of a thousand bandits raided the Haigong district of China. They sacked a town and killed thirty persons. By a fire at Bethnal Green, London, a mother and nine children were burned to death.

Two European Powers are negotiating for the purchase of the Danish possessions in the West Indies. A Bill will he submitted in the United States Senate to provide for the acquisition of this territory. Giffen has come to terms with respect to his inclusion in the Australian representative cricket teams. He will not play in the test match at Melbourne, owing to being out of practice, but he will go into training for the remaining matches of the series.

At Sydney yesterday two ferry boats came in collision. One, with 300 passengers on board, was so injured that she sa.nV within ten minutes. Fortunately, however, all the passengers succeeded in reaching the wharf. The cricket match between the Canterbury team now visiting the North Island and an Auckland eleven was commenced yesterday. The Canterbury team in the first innings scored 182. Auckland’s first innings closed for 90, and when play concluded for the day Canterbury, in its second innings, had lost four wickets for 31.