The Lyttelton Times. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1899.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11921, 19 June 1899, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1899.

The Perthshire was found by the Talune off Norfolk Island on Tuesday, and is being towed to Sydney, where she is expected to arrive this morning. ' ' Russia is preparing to seize a group of islands in the Gulf of Pechili, China. The Bsteve Iron Company, Paris, has manufactored the finest quality of crucible tool steel from Taranaki iron-sand. • Blackwater fever is causing great havoc in the Congo. A terrible famine exists at Mombassa, where thousands are starving. The natives are being fed at the Church mission stations. A protracted famine is threatened in some parts of Russia. ■ . , A meeting of burghers at Baksburg a resolution that the extension of the franchise to the Uitlanders was impossible,. seeing that the burghers numbered forty thousand and the Uitlanders fifty thousand. By a colliery explosion at Halifax, Nova Scotia, It hundred and sixty men were enPeace Conference, Sir Julian Pauncefote proposed the establishment of a permanent arbitration bureau, consisting of resident diplomatists at Hague, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs to. act as President. Bedouihs attacked the soldiers who formed the escort of the Kisweh or holy , carpet, sent from Cairo,' to be placed in the sacred sanctuary at Mecca. The Bedouins captured the carpet and demand £6OO ransom for it. Alarming statements are being made in Johannesburg about the number of quick-fir-ing guns in the possession of the Boers. Women and children are now leaving the townGreat complaints are being made at Kimberley of the state of military unpreparedness there, and the Cape Government is denounced for delaying the delivery to the volunteers of the new weapons ordered by the previous Ministry. , Tho English team won the football maten against New South Wales by four points to three. , , Three batteries of artillery have been ordered to Natal. , . , The Australians won the second test match with England by ten wickets.