SUMMARY OF THE WEEK’S NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 35

SUMMARY OF THE WEEK’S NEWS

Sydney is now free from smallpox. There has been an unprecedented harvest in Canada.

A rebellion is threatening in Canton, owing to the imposition of a house tax.

The American mbtal workers' strike is spreading. The Empress Frederick’s strength is rapidly diminishing.

News from South Africa shows that the New Zealanders have reached Kroonstad.

Canada announces her readiness to pay five eighteenths of the cost of the Pacific cable.

Several thirty-knot torpedo destroyers are to be sent to strengthen the British fleet in the Mediterranean.

The Queensland stock returns show a dlecrease of 4.887,000 sheep and 975,000 horses compared with last year. A motion in the House of Commons for the reduction of Mr Chamberlain’s salary was negatived by 154 votes against 7u. One hundred and thirty-five persons were arrested in a raid on betting-houses in Sydney. The Grand National Hurdle Race decided at Caulfield on Saturday was won by Repeater. A raid on a Chinese gaming house in Haining street was made by the Wellington police last Sunday night. The official date for the military evacuation of Pekin, except by the Legation Guards, is August 15th.

John Roberts, the billiards champion, was beaten in game 3 played at Brisbaao by Weiss and Memmott. > The Empress Frederick of Germany has had a renewal of her illness and shows signs of failing strength. The football match Canterbury v. Wellington, played at Christchurch on Saturday, was won by the Canterbury team. The mineral products of New South Wales last year were valued at .£6,570.* 000.

A fierce engagement with a force of Boers is reported to have taken place in Zululand.

Shipping business is paralysed, and fifty-five thousand men are idle through a strike at San Francisco.

The Queensland revenue for the year was <£4,327,000 and the expenditure <£4,855,000.

The report of the Teachers’ Salaries Commission was presented to Parliament on Thursday. • A member of the House of Commons has been suspended for referring to the “blackguardly conduct” of Irish Judges. In consequence of the passing of the new law in regard to religious associations the Jesuits have decided to leave France.

A member of the Cape Colony Legislature ha® been arrested on a charge of treson.

An anarchist who had been chosen to kill the Czar lias been arrested in Switzerland.

A motion of censure on the New South Wales Government has been negatived by the Legislative Assembly. A resolution has been carried in the House of Commons authorising an expenditure of two millions on the Pacific cable.

•There was a long discussion in the House of Representatives on Thursday regarding the acquisition of Miramar by the Wellington City Council. Judgment was given on Thursday by the Court of Arbitration on the appeal brought by the Australasian Seamen’s Union for registration in Wellington. A prisoner undergoing a life sentence in Lyttelton gaol bets confessed to having murdered Mrs Pain, at Miki Miki, near Masterton, in 1838.

Mr Chamberlain intimated in the House of Commons that Lord Kitchener anticipated being able to send a number of troops home by the end of September. A verdict of arson against some person or pei sons unknown was returned on Monday at an inquiry into a fire at Khandallah.

A deputation of trades unionists waited on the Premier on Monday with regard to the working of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.

The grant of <£loo,ooo to Lord Roberts for services in South Africa has been approved by tl;_e House of Lords and Houee of Commons!

An inquiry was held on Friday into the circumstances surrounding a fire which occurred in Wright street, Wellington, on July 25th. The House of Representatives wa® on Friday engaged in discussion of the Counties Bill, Advances to Settlers Act Amendment Bill and the Rating on Unimproved Values Bill. The certificate of the captain of the Lizzie Bell has been, suspended by the Court of Inquiry which investigated the circumstances connected with the wreck of that vessel.