The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12557, 19 July 1901, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901.

The route of -the procession day of the Coronation of -the King, will he ten miles long. The colonies will; be w t cll represented in the display." Strong appeals have been made *to Lord Rosebery 4o -promote a National Libera): -Party. The New York correspondent of the Times” states that 19,000 skilled workmen 'and 40,000 unskilled workmen have struck at Pittsburg. The -public Press does not sympathiao with the strikers, considering -that they are -bent on controlling the entire labourers employed by the ©tool -companies. The clearing up of the Eastern Transvaal is proceeding steadily. Two thousand refugees are encamped to the eastward, of Pretoria.

There are indications that there is a substratum of truth in the statement made by the “Daily Mail” as to Lord Kitchener’s intentions, inasmuch as Lord Kitchener has -been sparing the cavalry in favour of yeomanry and' colonial rough riders, who are so well suited for finishing the campaign and for police duties. Sir -Gordon (Sprigg, in an address _ to the Vigilance 'Committee, said that the situation in Cape Colony was brighter than, it-had been at any time during tho war< , f Commuuioa-

tions were passing 'between Lord Kitchener and the Capo Misristty, and ‘the result, he hoped, would end the warfare,