The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY'S NEWS.
General De Wet has-been forced north of the Orange River The Boers in. the eastern Transvaal are said to be demoralised. The Federal election campaign is now in full swing in Australia.
Ah the inquest into the Feilding fire an open verdict- was returned. The sanitary condition of parts of Capetown is described as being worse than that of Bombay. The British army estimates for the year amount to .187.915.000, including £58,230,009 for war services. A suspected case of plague is reported to have been, discovered on a troopship which arrived at Sydney from Capetown. The ex-soldier Georg© Parker, who murdered a uold farmer in one of the southwestern -drains at Snrbiton, has been sentenced to death.
At the inquest on the victims of the wreck of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro at San Francisco the jury found that both the captain and the pilot had been criminally negligent. The body of P. Conway, a Dunedin passenger, who died on February 19th on the voyage of the steamer Talnne to Sydney, has been exhumed, on account of suspicious circumstances, and an inquest has been opened.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4296, 4 March 1901, Page 4
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201The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY'S NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4296, 4 March 1901, Page 4
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