The N.Z. Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 4

The N.Z. Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

The Canadian Budget shows a surplus of eight million dollars for the year. The British Government proposes to provide .£470,000 for the King’s civil list. The Corporation of Liverpool is spending a million and a half on a re-housing scheme. ■ The mortality in London from influenza has reached forty weekly, and is increasing In connection with the forthcoming British Budget, a tax on sugar and com is considered possible. It is reported that negotiations Between the Foreign Ministers and China have been suspended. The "New York Sun” has apologised for publishing garbled accounts of .British atrocities in South Africa. The polo match played yesterday between a team representing New Zealand and the Victorians ended in a win for the former. Commandant Pe Jaeger, a noted Natal rebel, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonmenfand fined £SOOO for treason and looting. At the close of a remarkable speech in the Canadian Parliament by Sir Wilfrid ■ Laurier. the members rose and sang the National Anthem. At the National Liberal Club’s Commonwealth banquet in London the toast of the evening was proposed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. It is announced that the columns which have been pursuing the Boers under General De Wet are refitting, prior to making another combined movement. The Brussels newspaper "Independence Beige,” a strong pro-Boer organ, declares that the emancipation of the South African Eepnblics is impossible. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the American millionaire, has given a million pounds to a superannuated workmen’s fund at Pittsburg and pledges himself to spend another million on the Carnegie Institute,