The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12586, 22 August 1901, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901.

Dr Morrison, the Pekin correspondent o£ the “Times,” states that Great Britain 'has anriouncedi that she will reconsider the arrangements to withdraw , her troops from China unless the authors of the massacre of the missionary, Mr Thompson, and tour British, women and four children, at C-hri-ch au, in July of last year, are forthwith punished. - , , •_ , , The iceberg on which the steamer Islander struck was barely visible on the surface. The passengers rushed six boats, disregarding the women, and pushed off, despite the efforts of the officers to slop them. Several persona were drowned while trying to secure tbo gold. It is officially announced that the yield of wheat in Manitoba is 49 million bushels, of oats &0 million bushels, and of barley 6J million bushels. , , ttt- ‘ii General Andre, the Minister of War, sta.es that one of the Pretenders to the French throne tried: to seduce the Army Corps Commanders from their duty, but the Commanders revealed his intrigues. _ . The pro-Boers in Brussels and Hoilancl are delighted, at the -announcement that tho Czar invited a representative of the Transvaal Itepublio to tho Prince of Oldenburg’s wedding. Mr Kruger sent his secretary, Mr Joukheer Vandervoven. The British representative was absent from the wedding. , The football match, New South wales v. Southland, ' played at Invercargill yesterday, wast won by Southland by seventeen points Lord Kitchener's report states that during tli© past w&ck 6*l Boers *h£iT© killed* 20 wounded and S4B captured, while ;95 have surrendered. . ~ Five .submarine boats for the British Navy are being completed at Baxrow-on-Furness.