The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4309, 19 March 1901, Page 4

The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

The late Queen Victoria’s funeral cost .235,000. The Court of Appeal commenced its sittings yesterday.

A force of 1000 Germans has been raised for the defence of Cape Colony. A man has been found suffering from smallpox at Lcichardt, a suburb of Sydney. The Reichstag has voted over .£6,000,000 for the maintenance of the German troops in China. Lord Roberts says that he intends to visit the colonies as soon as circumstances nermit.

General Trias and 190 Filipino insurgents have surrendered to General McArthur.

Serious students’ and workmen’s riots have occurred in Moscow, and the city is in a state of siege. The Fekin correspondent of “Tho Times” has contributed some important information to that paper concerning the Manchurian Convention . French soldiers have been forbidden to enter the British concessions at Tientsin except on duty. A British officer was assaulted iu the French concession. Tho son of a well-known squatter in Now South Wales shot his father aud mother, attempted to shoot his sister and then committed suicide. The father is dead.

The actual cost of the Commonwealth celebrations in Australia is stated to have been £92,000. Of this the Government received back £60,000 from the railways in three weeks. , The Premier and other Ministers were interviewed yesterday by the Mayor and members of the City Council with regard to expenditure on the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.