The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12622, 3 October 1901, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901.

Wheat ati Mark Lane ds quoted sixpence lower on the -week. •A. number of Chinese rebels belonging to the secret society known as the Triad, burned the Baslo mission station -at Lihang-tong, in Kwang-turjg. Ths missionaries escaped. Mabarouk's 'force carno into collision with the Kxjd' tribes. The British _ are sending big guns to Koweit for the Sheik's use. A prolonged' drought is existing in Yorkshire and Lancashire. One thousand mill operatives are out or work. They are exasperated at the action of a section, of the mill-owners in damming the streams. They demolished the weirs and darns and tried to obstruct the workers. Shamrock 11. was half a mile ahead in the second race 'for the 'America, Cup . when the race was declared off, owing to the effluxion of time. The women' of "Vryheid lined the streets after Major Gough's disaster 'at 'Blood Kiver Poori and jeered uho 'released British troops when they arrived wixh their wounded and dead. I The offer of the 'Boers on parole in Ceylon to serve in the British 'Army outside South Africa has bee:* accepted, and 170 are drilling, and will serve in India. , . Several .Boer prisoners in Ragawa camp, Ceylon, tunnelled 50ft in an attempt to «cape. The tunnel wa.s discovered, and the men were sect to the "VVelikadde Gaol. A portion of the Grimsby strikers have refused to accept arbitration. The, steamer Papanui, 'om which a fire broke out or.' the 'homeward voyage, has arrived at Plymouth. 'The boatswain's mate _died 'from the effects of charcoal! fumes, 'and betweentwenty thousand and thirty thousand: carcases of frozen mutton wero jettisoned. 'Count Tolstoi denounces the Franco; Russian alliance, and declares that the masses in Russia are unaware of its existence. The fighting at 'Port Italia, lasied nineteen hours. 'Three Boer commandants were killed. A large force of 'Boers surprised and captured! a, post near Dundee, in Jfatal. The Boers raided, a district in Zululand, capturing "much stock and killing a number of natives.