YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7416, 30 May 1902, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

1 A SUMMARY. The following is a summary of news •which did not appear in yesterday's "Star":— Mr Seddon had an. immensely enthusiastic) send-off from Cape Town. Queen Whilhelmina has given a thousand marks to the Sfc Vincent Relief Fund. « The cricket match between the Australians and: the Marylebone Club was drawn. • » > The thirty-fourth Gemischter Abend of the Christchurch Liedertafel was held in the Choral Hall last night. • The Admiralty has severely reprimanded Admiral Lord Charles Beresford for some of his recent speeches criticising the Navy. During an attack on a Boer force at Somerset, Commandant Malan was mortally wounded', and fell into the hands of the British. " * A hundred and seventy Trade Union delegates, representing a million workers, met in London and adopted resolutions protest* ing against the corn duty. • Mr George Kennan, an American explorer, with a journalistic companion-, started to explore Mont Pelee (Martinique) a week ago, and has not returned. ♦ . Owing to the drought in Australia the question of suspending the duties on fodder to save stock was discussed in the Federal House of Representatives. • Sir Joseph Ward has made arrangements ! which will enable the news of the proclamation of peace to be flashed from one end of the colony to the other immediately upon its Receipt. ' • • France has given notice to China, that the Kwang-si insurrection is interfering with 'forking trade, and that unless it is suppressed before July France will take steps to protect her interests.. >. . ♦ . Monsignor Passerime, Vicar Apostolic of Southern China, who is visiting Rome,,' anticipates a vast anti-European rising .in China, more terrible because it is being patients and systematically prepared. Lieutenant-Colonel Hutcliinson. a Queensland officer, who had recently returned from South Africa, where he commanded the Second Queensland Contingent, was run over and killed by a train at Brisbane. •*/ i The Duke of Cambridge, addressing the National Rifle Association, England, said: "We see a little daylight in connection with the peace negotiations. Though we are not confident, we must be prepared for anything." A severe battle was fought between the rebels and the Government, troops at Chulusrieitt, in China. The rebels lost v fifteen hundred .killed or wounded, but compelled the troops to retire.\ The Boxers are reassembling at Shantung. Lord Pauncefote's funeral, at Washington, was an impressive ceremony. Mr Hay, Secretary of State, and the Ambassadors of other Powers, ... acted as pailbearers. President Roosevelt was present. Sixteen hundred troops escorted the coffin. • • ■ ♦ The Paris correspondent of the " Times " says that the new French Ministry will not be formed! before June 10. M. Combes, Vice-President of the Senate and ex-Minis-ter of Education, a strong anti-clerical, will probably succeed M. Waldeck Rousseau in the Premiership. • • At the North Otago Jockey Club's Winter Meeting the. Oamaru Trofc was won by Valerie (dividend £6), the Redcastle Welter''Handicap by Bill Perkins (dividend £2 9s), the Hack Selling Race by St Elma (dividend £5 3s) and the Flying Handicap ; by Goldspur (dividend £2 14s). • At a meeting of the Christchurch Sunday School Teachers' Association the Chairman laid) before the teachers present a scheme now under conaideration by the Cathedral authorities for providing a series of instructions for Sunday school teachers on come such subject as the Church Catechism. • » At the annual meeting of members of the Canterbury Jockey Club held yesterday amotion was carried desiring the committee to take into consideration the advisableness of increasing the number of long distance races and 1 lessening the number of short ones at meetings iheld during the I coming season. * At a- meeting of the Sydney Labour Council, a communication was received from the Christchurch Socialist Church, emphatically denying the statement of Mr Outtram, Chairman of the Victorian Labour Commission, that there were no unemployed in New Zealand. The statement was said to be absolutely untrue. * ■ Mr Tarte, Canadian Minister of Public Works, speaking at Montreal, said that if Mr Pierpont Morgan bought the CanadianPacific line, Canada would build another railway. He declared' that a fast Atlantic steamship service would be running within two years. He did 1 not believe that Britain would ever accord Canada preferential treatment. « At a meeting of the Executive Committee set up in connection wi^h the Coronation celebrations in Christchurch it was decided to ask for the following guarantees towards the expenses of the celebration: — I City Council £243, Sydenhain, Linwood and' St Albans £54 each, Heathcote, Riccarton and Woolston £27, Sumner and New Brighton £10. It was also decided that the Selwyn County Council, the Drainage Board and) the Halswell Road Board I should b& asked to contribute.