The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1899.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11884, 6 May 1899, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1899.

The .Americans entered Santomas, a port ■ and town-on the island of Luzon, one hundred and twenty-five miles north-west of Manila, after a. desperate fight with the Filipino defenders. . It is stated that the Spanish authorities are suspected of treacherously-handing gunboats purchased from them by the Airmrien.nn to the Filipinos, who.., removed the guns and ammunition. A conference of Labour delegates, representing New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, is being held at Brisbane, with the object of drafting a scheme of federation acceptable and workable by all the provinces. ’ Several meetings have been held in Great Britain in support of the Transvaal Hit' landers’ petition to the Queen. Twentyono thousand signed the petition. The Czar’s Peace Cbnference-at..The Hague will be held in, secret, 'but the resolutions adopted will be communicated to the Pnesa. A rope-walker named Hardy dropped 100 ft through a net into the stalls at the Alexandra Palace, and was grievously injured/ ' The Victorian Commissioners inspected-the works of the Christchurch Meat Company, at Islington, yesterday. - , ‘ ' General Mercier in 1897 destroyed Colonel Paty du dam’s commentary on the secret evidence in the Dreyfus ■ case. The commentary was .secretly communicated to the courtmartial. General Mercier’s excuse far-destroy-ing the document was that it was his property. New Zealajid four per : cent stock is quoted at £ll4 ss, ' three and a half per emit at . £IOB 15s, and three per cent at £36 15a. ' The English and Continental wheat markets are firm, but imports as- to the improved prospects of the crop have caused 1 the-American market to-weaken.