THE New Zealand Mail. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1903. EPITOME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 45

THE New Zealand Mail. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1903. EPITOME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS

The establishment of a uniform coinage in China has been ordered. The township of Cooiamundra has been partial!y wrecked. King Edward will pay a visit to the Vatican to-day. Heavy rains and floods are reported from many parts ox Australia. The Budget proposals of the British Chancellor are generally approved. News has been received of recent fighting with followers of the Emir of Kano. Russia has made a request to China for considerable* concessions in Manchuria. Heavy rainfalls are reported from Queensland. News has been received of a disaster ■to a British native force in Somaliland. The Stoke Orphanage near Nelson has been destroyed by fire. The annual elections of school committees took place on Monday night. Further particulars have been received of the recent fighting in Somaliland. The criminal sessions of the 1 Supreme Court opened on Monday in Wellington. The Haytian Government forces have been badly defeated by the revolutionists. It is said that China, has refused to comply with Russia’s demands on Manchuria.. Mr AY. T. L. Travers died on Monday, morning from the injuries he received in the Hutt railway accident. A controversy is proceeding in West Australia in regard to two recent executions. The German newspapers are increasingly irritated at the surcharge made byCanada on German imports. Tens of thousands of Chinese are dying from famine in the province of Kwang-si. There was a gathering on the 21st inst. at Palmerston North under the auspices of the Farmers’ Union An important extension of State-aided emigration to South Africa is reported to be in contemplation. It is stated by a German newspaper that the whole of the Russian Black Sea fleet has been mobilised. Captain E. S. Babct, late of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, died last Wednesday night. The report has been published of the Royal Commission on Physical aining in Scotland. Further fighting lias been reported between Turkish troops and Bulgarian insurrectionists. The conference of Australian State Premiers, which lias been sitting at Sydney, concluded last Wednesday. It is announced that Germany will retaliate against the increase of the German tariff on German goods. Tho Mullali who has created so much disturbance in Somaliland is now being deserted by the "tribesmen. A fruitless attack: rvas made on the revolutionists at San Domingo by the troops of the Haytian Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer lias delivered his Budget speech in the House of Commons. The autumn meeting of tho Wellington Racing Club was brought t° a. conclusion on Saturday. The refusal of Great Britain to support the Bagdad Railway is said to have caused consternation at Berlin. Reference to the Porirua judgment of the Privy Council was made on Saturday by the Chief Justice of New Zealand and Justices Williams and Edwards. King Edward was given an immense reception on his arrival at Naples. Certain newspapers in Paris are trying to create prejudice against his Majesty. Mr Hanbury, President of the British Board of Agriculture, speaking at Preston.® said the keynote of future policy would be ‘Trade.” A meeting was held in Wellington on Friday to consider the question of cooperating in the erection of a statue to the memory of the late Mr William Rolleston.