YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7418, 2 June 1902, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY. The following is a summaiy of news which did not appear in Saturday's "Star": — A lad named Albert Lisbon Bull died under chloroform at Addington yesterday afternoon. On President Roosevelt's directions^ Mr Root has reduced the United States Army to 66,497. The Archbishop of Canterbury is guffering^rom gout z and 'has cancelled a fortnight's engagement. » » The first of the series of Test Matches between the Australians and an All-Eng-land Eleven was drawn. « • *• The Christchurch Hounds met at the Racecourse Hotel \on Saturday. There was a large following 1 and! some excellent runs were obtained. • « • A young man named James Williams had a miraculous escape from a shocking death by falling off the Lyttelton-Christchurch train in the tunnel yesterday afternoon. * * The elections in Ontario resulted in the yeturn of fifty-one Liberals and forty-seven Conservatives. The result commits the Government to the enforcement pf prohibition. # • A Reuter's message states that Mr Steyn is suffering from paralysis, which caused his abstention from taking part in the Vereeniging Conference. 'He is now at .Krugersdorp on parole. . ■ • President Roosevelt, in the course of an address at Arlington, said that the acts of cruelty committed under terrible provoca* tion in the Philippines, were wholly exceptional, and' had been shamelessly exagger* ated. ».' • * According to the "'Morning Post," a New York financier has received a code message from Pretoria alleging that the terms of amnesty alone are unsettled. There are indications that Britain has agreed to take cognisance only of the traitorous conduct of the leaders of the Cape Colony rebellion. ■V* Brussels advices state that the Boer delegates intend signing the peace agreement ,in the name of the (members of the former Orange Free State and TransvaaL Governments, including Mr Kruger, in order to prevent the irreconcilables alleging that they are continuing guerilla war in obedience to the delegates in Europe. » In reply to inquiries, the Premier of New South Wales has received a telegram from the officer commanding the Aurania's troops denying that the men did the looting recently reported from Cape Town, or committed' any excesses at Albany. He adds 'that a few stowaways committed a few robberies. The conduct of the Aurania-'s troops was exemplary. « • At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Shorthand Writers' Association, held on Saturday, ifc was resolved to set -apart £3 3s annually for purchasing a medal to be awarded to the member of the Association who gains the highest speed certificate during the year. The certificates won during the past year were pre« sented to the holders. • The Progressive members of the Cape Parliament fear that the Cape Dutch will refuse a Bill. of Indemnity for the Government's acts during the war. They, also fear anti-Imperial legislation. The financial outlook is considered critical, owing to the enormous expenditure since the Government undertook the control of war operations within the colony. • ■ • # •» Lord Rosebery, speaking at Leeds, said that the popular control provided in the Education Bill was merely nominal. The Corn Tax was a prelude to .a zoliverein conferring on the colonies the control of t>he British fiscal system. While he was unable to summarily dismiss any proposal for closer union, he would require convincing arguments before he would accept this. « • * Dr J. W. Smartt, who recently resigned the portfolio of Public Works in the Cape Colony Ministry, advocates the suspension of the Cape Constitution, but Sir Gordon Sprigg, the Premier, opposes it. Mr A. Douglass, member for Grahamstown, will succeed Dr Smartt as Minister of Works. Sir Phter H. Faurre will .surrender the portfolio of Agriculture for that of Colonial Secretary, Mr J. Frost, Minister without portfolio, succeeding Sir Pieter Faurre as Minister of Agriculture. • * * A public meeting was held in Cathedral Square on Saturday evening, under the auspices of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, to protest against the formation of a Milling Trust, and to consider the establishment of a co-operative bakery. A motion was carried, requesting the Government and the Parliament to pass legislation- during next session, making it illegal to form trusts and monopolies m connection with any articles of food, and requesting the Government to establish a State flour mill or mills. Another motion was passed, expressing the opinion that the Flour Milling Trust is a wienance to the community ; and, as a means of, in somo measure, counteracting its influence, urging upon the Working Men's Co-opera-tive Society the necessity for immediately establishing a bakery branch of their business, and a mill, if necessary, undertaking, in return, to give one or both projects financial support, and promising to use the article manufactured by the Society.