The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899.

Steamers leaivihg Sydney are being instructed to keep a look-out lor the Perthshire, and, if there is no nows of the missing vessel in. a day or two, a search steamcr will ’ ba sent out. ■ A Beater’s telegram, states that Prance has demanded from China one million two hundred thousand taels, and certain mining rights in the-province of Szechuan, as coml- - for the imprisonment , of Father Floury, a French missionary. The Victorian Chamber or Commerce has adopted a .resolution of extreme regret at the decision of the Imperial Government with regard to the Pacific cable, and strongly urging the necessity »for the cable. The Mayor of Adelaide has received a letter from the Imperial South African Association, asking him to co-operate with the Mayor of Sydney in arranging for a public meeting to ventilate the grievances of the Transvaal Uitlanders. Archbishops, Bishops, "Peers, Commoners and leading Nonconformists ate uniting in a protest against the Sunday editions of the London “ Daily .Telegraph” and' “ Daily Mail,” which have been brought out as seven days’ papers. Indians m'assacKd 120 Bolivian troops sent to quell a rising amongst them. The ship Loch Sloy, bound from Glasgow to Melbourne, was wrecked on the'coast of "South Australia. Thirty lives were lost , I At the Sydney Wool sales prices sh’ow > an advance of to 10 per cent. The Christchurch Presbytery yesterday appointed a committee; to, conifer, With representatives of the other- churches, on the question of the introduction of the theState schools." The Presbytery''wiU'daihed the Eev Gordon "Webster, who is leaving on

a visit to Great Britain,- at a~ compbuiß uk»i ff luncheon. ......., The Hon W. Hall-Jones addressed Tn* stituents at Timaru last evening, and received' a vote of thanks and confidenceThe Turkish Minister at The Hague, being indignant because he was not' appointed the representative of. his country at the Peace Conference, has fled to Paris. This is dismayed, fearing that he will join the revolutionary movement. The cricket match between the. Australian 121 even and.: a South, of Enghura -{earn been commenced at the Crystal Palace. The Englishmen, in the first innings, scored 246 runs, and the Australians Save lost two wickets for 35 runs.