The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12533, 21 June 1901, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Oaill.aaix, the 'Miaiis'ier of Finance, explained th-o details of the old ago jpsnsioni scheme. He said the scheme would require a capital fund of twelve million fr.ancs. I"he State -would contribute at 'the outset fifteen million francs, and gradually increase its contribution in sixteen years to ninety million francs, and then gradually reduce it to ioirty-fiv© million franca. The German Emperor, speaking at Cuxhaven, said the mutual esteem and comradeship displayed by "the Allies in .China assured tihe peace of Europe for many years. iCoEnnanetlant Kraitzinger, who is «t Kleinfontein, threatens to commandeer all persons giving infonn'atiotti to lino Bri'ti&li. He .states that he does this in virtue of the jproalamaition annexing the nofltnern portion of Cape Colony to the late Orange Free S'te at the beginning of the war. ■_ 'Colonel ''Scott's railway guards, at JSaartebeestopan, in the ■Western Transvaal, Captured much stock, two waggons and a quantity of riflea and :ammunition. . The War Office has resumed ptwvhasmg horses in America. Eight transports are loading in 'New Orleans. In the Federal ißarli'ament, it was .stated that it would require 57,000 Lee-EanfieMs, costing £274,000, to equip the Australian Volunteer Forces. A Beuter'o despatch states that five hundred 'Christians nave been murdered at has recalled the Ottoman mission to China. There 'had been 714 cases of the plague- in Cape Town up to Sunday, of which 338 had proved fatel. . _^______