The N. Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.
The Boer invasion of Caps Colony under General De Wet has ended.
The Wesleyan Conference continued its sittings yesterday in Wellington.
The Earl of Kimberley is. ill, and his condition is regarded as critical. At the London .County Council elections the Progressive Party gained considerably. Mr John Daly. Mayor of Limerick, made an inflammatory speech to a meeting of Irishmen at Chicago.
During the disturbances in China 131 missionaries and 52 of their children were murdered. Privates J. P. Roberts and A. W. Dudley. of the New Zealand forces, have succumbed to enteric at Pretoria. Two troopships from the Cape have been quarantined at Sydney, where a vigorous crusade against has been instituted. A Parliamentary by-election a.t Maidstone, England, resulted in the return of Sir Francis Evans, the Liberal candidate. A man named Herbert Bennett has been sentenced to death in England for the murder of his wife at Yarmouth in September last. The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce recommends the setting up of a Royal Commission on coloured labour before legislation is introduced into the Federal Parliament.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4297, 5 March 1901, Page 4
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