The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12430, 20 February 1901, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901.

The session of the. Presbyterian General Assembly was concluded at Wanganui yesterday. No Moderator was appointed ior the ensuing year. The Postmaster-General disapproves of the proposal to establish a joint purse in connection with the Pacific and ‘Eastern Extension. Cables. Three more cases of plague are reported among the suspects at Cape Town. The “ Sugar Journal,'' 1 the organ oi the Queensland planters, says 'that the abolition oi coloured labour will seriously interfere with the settlement of all tropical Australia. A meeting of the Cabinet was heia in Auckland yesterday, and it was decided that the ■Government could not consent to the Imperial authorities recruiting for the South African iPolice in GS T ew Zealand. The 'Representative Contingent of the Itnjrsrial- Troops left Auckland ior Adelaide yesterday. The Indian Contingent Jolt for Gisborne last evening. The Governor arrived at '-Blenheim yesterday, and will proceed to Wellington, to-day. Department haa 'been instruct--

ed to prepare for the despatch of 'the first draft of the Seventh Contingent for South Africa. Eight alleged Boxer leaders have been executed by the Chinese authorities at Hankow. Largo quantities of tea are being cleared from the bonded stores in London in anticipation of an increase in the duty. Statistics show a great decrease in Germany’s Home trade during the past year. Great indignation is being exhibited in Belgrade at ex-King 'Milan being buried in Hungary. The man Wilding accused of attempting to murder his wife at Linwood has been committed for trial. M. Wolmarans, one of the Boer Peace envoys who is visiting Holland, declares that the Boors will accept nothing short ox complete independence. Mr Chamberlain denies the assertion that ho misled -the late Queen with regard to the prospects pf the South African war. The Congregational Union continued its ■sitting in Christchurch yesterday. A public meeting at Hobart has protested against foreign aggression in the Pacific. An active commercial war arising out, of the sugar bounties is proceeding between the United States and Russia. Mr Justice Denniston sat in ■ Chambers hnd in Divorce at the Supreme Court The Federation Commission resumed its sitting in Christchurch yesterday and examined a number of witnesses. The mobility Of' the British in South Africa is now "said to be superior to that of the enemy. Lord Cranbourne stated in the House of Commons that Russia had given satisfactory assurances concerning her attitude in China.