Summary of News

Southland Times, Issue 19036, 2 May 1903, Page 2

Summary of News

-v- i r L>ougal has beon charged with murder- ■< ng Misr. Holland in Essex. The foolish di )ld woman's body had been cunningly fn juried in a recess dug in the shape of j A\c Moat ditch, thus avoiding disturbance of the surface soil. Plague is still rampant in India, where >eople are dying by thousands per jv nun t h of the diswuse. The education obstructionists in Kug'- > land lia\e distasteful advice (coin their j lawyers. j Dil Chttillu. the French traveller who '• "discovered" the gorilla Hj years ago, I>' and' was as much discredited as Do J' llotipmn-ouT, wilji Ichh cause, is dead. K The HlulT had a sensation last night In 1' the destruction of :\ vessel by (ire. K l is over 40 years since the fnmous Black j c Httll Liner Ocean Chief was burned at f anchor near where "Paddy" Gilroy ' s struck his lirst whale . ° Se\ eral thousands of very poor car- s cuses of mutton i\re ulleged to luiA'g f 1 been sent from Auckland to London to v t-be disgrace and deurredatiou of ttio l } colony's produce. K If (inner Clevelund has an eye to trip K Presidency of the States, he will rui» s Roosevelt hard for the office. ' More horrors by both sides in Turkey. f ltussia is again licking her paws aiul f saying she means nothing f i;x-P.M<!. Crick, of N.S/W.. disposes ' fairly of Canadian grumbling about tie- ' frnuding the Pacific cable of work. ' The Victorian railway trouble has como to a head. It was bound to call for ' solution sooner or later where govern- ' ments take up commercial functions and ' have the ciuploj inc-iit and payment of men. who, when their numbers incivaso KuHiciently. can "«ack" Lhe paymnster. ' Our own railway men declined to como under tin? Conciliation and Arbitration ' Act, and it was broadly hinted that olio Object was to retain the power to striko ! without incurring the penalties | ro* ide<! by that Act