The N.Z. Mail (PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1904. EPITOME OF THE WEEK’S NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1672, 16 March 1904, Page 49

The N.Z. Mail (PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1904. EPITOME OF THE WEEK’S NEWS

Paragraph 2 of the anti-Jesuit law of the German Empire lias been repealed. A hundred rebellious Somalis liavebeen killed by a British force. Holders of a quarter of a million of New Zealand debentures are being asked to renew for four years. Six battleships and two cruisers are being completed in Russian shipbuilding yards. An engagement between Koreans and Cossacks is reported, in which thirty-four of the latter were' killed. The urgency of cu py rosis nig Monastic orders in France has been affirmed by the Chamber of Deputies. An Executive Order by President Roosevelt emphasises the neutrality of the United States in the Russo-Japanese' war. French newspapers consider King Edward one of the mainstays of the world’s peace. King Edward has decided not to disallow the Transvaal Chinese Labour Ordinance. The Premier was entertained at a large gathering of farmers in the Gatlins district on Saturday. The Australian half-mile, swimming championship was won by B. Iveran, who beat R. Cavill in record time. Precautionary measures are being enforced at Australian ports against Sydney shipping in eon sequence of the plague. It is said that the repeal of the antiJesuii law lias evoked indignation in Germany. Mr W. T. Stead, of the “Review of Reviews,” has been welcomed to Capetown by the Afrikander Bond. The steamer Lass-o’-Gowrie, which went ashore at Cape Tribulation, on the coast of Queensland, has been re-floated. Pour boats, containing a hundred persons, are missing from the wreck of the steamer Aramac on the Queensland coast. The Japanese army invading Manchuria is reported to be adapting the same route and tactics as were followed in the war with China. Judgment has been given by the High Court of Australia on two appeals against elections to the Commonwealth Parlhvmenf, The references made to preferential trade by the Governor-General of Australia have been referred to in the House of Commons. It is not the intention of the British Government to deaf with fiscal reform and retaliation proposals in the present Parliament. It is expected that as soon as negotiations are concluded with China, a date will be proclaimed for recruiting coolie labour for the Rand, The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce has resolved to urge immediate ratification of the ordinance relating to Chinese labour.