The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY'S NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4293, 28 February 1901, Page 4

The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY'S NEWS.

Three- hundred Chinese were killed irrecent fighting' at raoting-i'u. By a fire- in a colliery in Wyoming, about iiiiy u-iiurs lest their liver. The Dunedin Cup, run yesterday, '"’as won by Jupiter by a short head. King Edward TIT. was proclaimed with grfeat ceremony at Adelaide yesterday. ' The Spanish Prime Minister has resign eand Senor Silvela has been summoned to form a Cabinet. A committee is to be appointed to incuir.- into the safely of proposed naval v. orks at Gibraltar. Some prominent Chinese conspirators have been executed in accordance with the demands of the allied Power?. Remarkable evidence has been civen at ihe inquest on- the persons killed in the Sydney railway acci dent. The New South Woles 'Wesleyan Conference Las decided to establish a mission and industrial settlement in New Britain.

Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier is endeavouring to arrange for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall to cross Canada on their journey back to England. The Federal Premie; says that Urn policy of his Government will be to terminate the importation of Kanakas into Queensland at the end of a term of years. Tho Wellington Education Board lias passed a resolution in favour of the holding - of a conference of Education Boards on the question of teachers’ salaries. The Moderator of the Presbyterian General ,Assembly has addressed a protest to the Premier against the conveyance of the Indian troops on Sunday by rail from New Plymouth to Wellington.