The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12536, 25 June 1901, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901.

The .principal of yesterday’s functions in connection with the Royal visit wore a great volunteer review in (Hagley Park, a children’s demonstration in Victoria Square, and -a reception in Canterbury Hall. The weather was -bsautjfuTly fine. Several -townships were wrecked ’by the bur thing of a dam in Virginia, and the loss of life is estimated at five hundred. Privates H. iSouohan, A. J. Thom' and A. C. hf-Farlane, Seventh New Zealand Con’tintent, were accidon-tally wounded near Su-’an-erton. Sp to last November 7000 British soldiers applied for permission to remain in South -r-.ca.

The South lAirioan Land Settlement 'Commission appointed 'by the last Parliament, baa issued its report. It dlatea that unless a strenuous.effort is made to establish a -thorough British population in tiho conquered States, the sacrifice of the war will be absolutely wasted. It advises the compulsory acquisition of private lands for settlement on the lines adopted by New Zealand. IBS/ Web ia reported west • off Kjpoustai,'

Louis Botha at Amc-rspoort. De La. Eey is trying to join Botha. Dundee beat the New bowlers by 51 points to 35. _ By an explosion of fireworks at Paterson, New York State, fifteen persons were killed and twenty in jured . -j tie American Government has app-omtea General -Ohaliee * -Military Govern'or of the Phibppines. General Macartnur, Hs.te Com-mander-in-Chief in the Philippines, has returned to America. Nev;s from the Islands states that influenza, is prevalent among the -r.-ahives_ of omons and adjacent groups, causing li.'jh mortality.