The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 4

The N.Z. Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1901. EPITOME OF THE DAY’S NEWS.

The Victorian loan of three millions has been over subscribed. Another case of small-pox has been discovered in Sydney. „ Queensland has floated a million 3i per cent, loan on the Australian market., The death islmnouneed of Captain Take, of Hawke’s Bay. a veteran of the Maori war. The New Zealand Federation Commission has commenced its sittings in Sydney. It is stated that a Russo-German treatycontaining mutual assurance on Chinese questions has been concluded. There has been no delay to shipping in Sydney through the lock-out of coal lumpera. Squabbling over the invitations to tiie opening of the Federal Parliament has alriady commenced in Melbourne/ At a meeting of the Melrose Borough Council last, night a motion in favour of the abolition of wards was negatived. It is said that the Duke of Cornwall brings to the colonies .£20.001) worth of presents, and a list of knighthoods. The entire rights of the Panama Canal have been offered by the proprietary company to the United States for .£6,800,000. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Tongariro has been towed to the Island of Ascension in a disabled condition. The now Governor or Cape Colony (Sir ■Walter Holy Hutchison) has expressed amazement a t the filthy condition of Capetown.