The N.Z. Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1900. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 3956, 23 January 1900, Page 4

The N.Z. Times

(PUBLISHED DAILY.) TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1900. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

With which is Incorporated the WkliAnoion Independent, Established 1815,

The'Duke of Teck is dead. The Mafeking garrison was still holding out against the Boers on the 10th inst. Large shipments of breadstnffs are being made from Adelaide to the Cape. Mr J. McGowan, M.HiR. for’tho Thames, takes office to-day as Minister of 'Minos. The town, of Colesberg is now being bombarded by the British, lyddite shells being employed. Some rats found dead in Adelaide have yielded by culture specimens of the bubonic plague bacilli. A eripjiled man named William Bird, seventy-nve yeais of age, was burned to death at Auckland on Sunday night.

The fund raised in, New South Wales for the despatch 1 of a 1 bushnien's contingent to the Cape now amounts to .1:22,700. How Trooper Bradford, of the New Zealand contingent, fell is told to-day hy a special correspondent writing from'Arundel.

News from Natal contains news ot a gratifying character concerning the progress of General; Buller’s army towards Ladysmith.

The Wellington Cup was won yesterday by Mr Cutts’s, horse Djin Djin. The Wellesley Stakes were carried off by Captain Russell's Heiress.

Mr G. Q. Stead has written to the Chriatchnrch papers suggesting that the money subscribed to patriotic funds in the colon.v should be diverted to the equipment ot more men.

The barque Marie, from South Australia to Delagoa Bay, has been seized by the British authorities and taken to Durban. The vessel carried a cargo of flour lor uie Boers. • :