The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY’, AUGUST 3, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12570, 3 August 1901, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY’, AUGUST 3, 1901.

The Boxers have placarded Canton, threatening rebellion, owing to tho imposition of the house tax in connection with ihe raising of money to provide the foreign indemnity. The House of Commons passed tho grant oi £IOO,OOO to Earl Roberts by 231 votes to 73. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Sir' William Harcourt and all 'the leading members of ths Opposition voted with the Government. The minority consisted of Nationalists and fourteen Radicals. Gailioth, an Anarchist emissary from Paterson, in New Jersey, who was chosen to kill tho Czar, and who was a friend oi Bresci, King Humbert’s assassin, has been .arrested in Switzerland. Owing to a lack of provisions, r commando with two guns has entered the Portuguese territory at, Guaneiz. A force of 803 Portuguese troops is demanding their surrender. The main force of the Boers is within a quadrilateral area bounded by lines drawn from Blandfort West to Do Aar, thence to Stormberg, and bv Queenstown to Bla-ndiort West. They are split up into numerous bodies of from ten to one hundred and Another group is in the Herschel—-Anwar North district, while a smaller co.lection is situated in the west. The farmers everywhere are supporting the enemy. , Two hundred Boers surrounded and captured a patrol o£ twenty Yeomanry at Dooin River, Orange Colony. After fne pairol had surrendered," the Boers shot all the native scouts aocompayir.g it, and _ aiso ki.led wounded Yeoman in mistake lor a Cape boy. General French reports that _ Knutzir.ger has written announcing his intention to snoot ail natives in British employ. Many cases of cold-blooded murders of natives are occurring in Cape Colony. . , ~,. The'Bill authorising a loan or sixiy_ millions on account of the war in South Africa has passed through committee in the mouse of Commons. It was stated that the weekly expediture during July amounted to a million and a Quarter.