The N.Z. Times.
(PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1900. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.
VfITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE ’WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT, ESTABLISHED 1845.
The dehth is announced of the Eight Rev .1. C. Rylei-late Bishop of Liverpool. Dangerous crowds have assembled around’ the foreign Embassies at Pekin. The secretary of the Belgian Legation has been thrashed in the streets of Pekin. The Conciliation Board yesterday made known it? award in the wharf labourers’ dispntij.,. An. increased number of marines lias been despatched; from the foreign warships to Pekin. r , At.a meeting of native chiefs in Natal resolutions ,of .loyalty lo the Queen were passed/ • Seventy-five native converts have been massacred by “Boxers” at a missionary college, near Pekin. One hundred and fifty-one British officers and-threp thousand five hundred men have been released’ at Pretoria. The Boer forces who recently confronted General'Buller at Lang’s Nek are retreating in a northwesterly direction. The Emperor of China has appealed to Europe to depose the Doivnger-Emprcss, and enthrone him at Nanking. News conies to hand that nearly seven hundred men of the Derbyshire Regiment have beepi captured by the Boers. A conference' of Australian Premiers and Attorney-Generals hits been proiwsed in connection with the Commonwealth'Bill. The. Premier of Cape Colony intends to introduce a Bill to Parliament providing for the .disfranchisement of rebels for five years. ' ■ _ ~ ‘ ’ ' ... - ■ The New’ South Wales Parliament opetied yesterday. • li was’ announced that an opportunity would be given’the House to exteiid the .franchise. ■ ■-■■■■■ Five invalided members .of New Zealand contingents’ " returned lo this city yesterday. ‘ A luncheon -was held .in- their honour* at: the Council Chambers.. Two engagements are’ reported to have occurred - betw r een the BHlish-and Boer forces in. Orange River Colony, one being at Roodeval and the other at Hoilbron, . At the I 'Supreme plourt yesterday the bearing Was commenced of a libel action, tliei partiesdieing T. V. Byrne and the proprietors! of ;the [’Auckland ’Observer,-
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4075, 13 June 1900, Page 4
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319The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1900. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4075, 13 June 1900, Page 4
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