The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901.
The. boiler of a French, .torpedo 'boat at Algiers exploded, killing one .person.' and injuring five. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall* have 'reached Vancouver. During ithe America Cup race one of the patrol fleet -employed In keeping the course clear, .collided with. Sir ' Thomas L-ipton's yacht, Erin, damaging hex considerably. A rebel named Wolfaardt has Ibeen tried at Graaf Seine*. 'He .blames' D-r Do 'Water, ■formerly . a Cape •Minister, 'and.'Miss 'Olive -Schrainer for .inciting the -rebellion. \ Two hundred Boers on parole at Ceylon tiave offered to serve in the .British. Army outside Scuth Africa. Commandant Theron' is, endeavouring- to join'.Ccninian-da-n'ts Louw, Maritz 'and others, whose commandos total 700 men, northwards of 'Clanwilliam, in Cape Colony. The Bombay " Gazette " , states <'ha-t Great Britain iniends to proclaim a- .protectorate over Koweit. 'lnformation (has been received in Melbourne that 'three members of the .Fifth Victorian Contingent in South Africa were sentenced to be shot for inciting a mutiny. Lord Kitchener commuted the sentences. The chief offender was sentenced to ten years' -peife-1 servitude, and the two others to. one year's imprisonment. ■ • : ' ' The baiting is six to five .against Shamrock 11. for tfc-e 'aec-c-r.'i race for ■:ihe America Cup-. The .Earl of Scarborough has induced 'the ■Grims.by strikers vo resume' work pending a.rbj brat-ion by ..fae Beard of Trade. Later details of the 'Boer attack on Fort Italia -state that 'the 'British losses included twelve killed, thirty-nine' wounded, aad sixtyv three; missing. It'is .stated that two .hundred IBoers were killed and over 'three hundred j wounded. - J
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12621, 2 October 1901, Page 4
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