FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1900.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIV, Issue 12274, 17 August 1900, Page 4

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1900.

The attendance at the requiem mass for the late Lord Russell, of Killowen, celebrated at the Brompton Oratory, was the most representative once since Cardinal •Manning''? obsequies. Lord Bussell's remains were interred at Epsom. ' . The French dockyard labourers have secured an eight hours' day. . Tt is reported that the allied troops are now within sixteen miles of Peiin. The American forces hope that the capital will soon, be attacked from both aides,-, east and south. The Indian troops are eager to push now within sixteen miles of Pekin. The Bengal Lancers especially are doing splendid work. •.' Lieutenant-General Ga.selee, commanding the British troops,"and General Yamakuchi, in command of the Japanese relief detachment, jointly planned' and executed the operations which resulted in the capture of 'Pensang. ' , There are indications that Prince Tuan and other' reactionary officials have fled from Pekin- ■ „ . France has decided not to oppose Count. Waldersee as Commander-in-Chief of 'tiie. at-, lied forces in China. . _ ■. < ' It is serni-officially announced in Pans mat measures will' be taken to protect, if- ne c e6sary, the French concession at Shanghai. lais announcement is interpreted as intended to show Frenchmen, after the Waldersee incident, that'Great Britain would not be allowed to secure special honours ai Shanghai. One of Mr Kruger's sons has been captured in the Bustenburg district. _ \ , •Mr 'Bennett Burleigh visited _and met General,- Louis Botha and Commandant Vilioen. He reports that 8000 burghers are' strongly posted in the -'hills at Botham.ey, north of Belfast. The enemy -have .plenty _of guns, though fifty are demoralised, and indulging in wholesale looting. ''Official Transvaal papers show that 7000 Transvaalers were lost from January to dune. One thousand were killed. . . The Cape Assembly, by forty-six _ votes to thirty-eight, rejected Mr Sauer',3 motion, foj » Select Committee to inquire into toe administration of martial law in Cape Colony, me passage of the Treason Bill is assured.