The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1904.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXI, Issue 13343, 23 January 1904, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1904.

Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, has introduced a Bill in the United States Senate to annex Panama, and compensate Panama and Colombia with ten million dollars and a million and a half dollars respectively, and to devote forty million dollars to the purchase of, the canal property. ■ , The Legislative Council of Pretoria, without a division, read the Labour Importation Bill a second time. The “Standard’s” Tokio correspondent states that the Czar's words to Count Kurino, the Jananeso Ambassador at St Petersburg, were not so entirely pacific and satisfactory as has been represented in Europe. An influential diplomatist at St Petersburg declares that Hussia is sending fresh proposals to japan to prolong negotiations at least another weed:. The Inter-Island cricket match was continued at Wellington yesterday!, whoa the first innings of the South Island team closed for IG9. The North Island Eleven, in its second innings, scored, 13ti. The South Island requires Itio runs to win. . Mr John Kedraond is issuing .circulars to the Nationalists.- He urges a full attendance this session, on the ground 7 that strong efforts will be mode lo rush the Nationalist policy. Lord Lahsdownc will become the Unionist leader in the House of Lords.