The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1902.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 13000, 16 December 1902, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1902.

Tho Archbishop of Canterbury shows no improvement, and prayers are being offered for his recovery in all the churches in England. Dinizulu, the bead 'chief of the Zulus, refuses to surrender to the Natal Government a quantity of captured Boer arms and ammunition. Generals Botha and De la Rey have sailed for South Africa. General Botha, on being interviewed prior to his departure, expressed himself as being grateful for the courtesies extended to him. He said that be was going back to tako things quietly. President Castro's request for arbitration has not been received' at London or Berlin, though it is .understood that Mr Hay, United States Secretary for State, is transmitting it. It is unofficially suggested in Great Britain and Germany th'at President Roosevelt should bo mediator. A cyclone struck the township of Brookville, in Queensland, and a, number of houses were levelled. Hail as large as teacups fell, smashing all the glass in its track. Sir Edmund Barton has cabled to Mr Seddon that he appreciates the generous offer of the New Zealand Premier with regard to the ■supply of fodder land seed wheai to the di-ought-stricko;ii districts, and has left it to the States to respond to the offer without Federal intervention.