YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7423, 9 June 1902, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY. •The following is » summary of news • which -did aot Saturday's «?St»r":~ .' . : . "■■.-■•. . " Owins *o continued rain, the match JbetweeVtheAuatraliane and Lancashire was abandoned. ♦ ♦ The British Parliament has pass*! t^S I *** of «50,000 to Lord Kitchener and the vote for giants to the soldier*. General De Wet, speaking at ConcerttaSTtop at VreSeford »°«k "*•*■#• fcurgbere to show what good colonists the Doers could 001*316. ', . In Hie House of Commons, Mr . Balfour ■Dated %at *he promised inquiry into the SXement .<>* *• war -was engaging the Governmeßfa attention.^ ' President. Roosevelt asked* Mr = Arthur .TuSL: Secretary to the British EmWy at vffigtoiTto^Wey to Lord Salisbury his 'kind and sincere congratulations on the esjtablißhiruent of peace. • ; . . M. Combes -will suweed M. Waldeck-Itous-Nm «« French Premier, M. Delcasse. being Minister of Foreign Affairs, General „ Andre aGidfrter of War, .and M. ; Rouvier Minieter of Finanoe in the new Cabinet. , tit Sehalikiburger, addressing the Pieternwritsbuzg Ooncenfe«tion .Camp, advised- the > «ople toiorget «nd iorgive. It wae^ope- ■ fca to- struggle longer, and was best to act up,io -flic term« of" flarrender. Tie xemaina of Trooper «T. H. Treneary, j SOTrth 1 Africa; aid who. died at the Christ- ■ church Hospital oa Thursday iaat from m,juri«' received at Elandafontein, were accorded <a military funeral yesterday. Lord Kitchener reporta -that 1154 surrendered their arms in various districts on Thursday The Commissioner* delivered; speeches, 4he Boera responding with.three hearty cheers for the King. The best possible xelaifoona «ist, and ihere is no hitch anywhere. There was an. outburst from Mont Pelee on Friday. Heavy clouds were thrown out, but no stones. "Upheavals in the sea between St Vincent and St ■ Lucia indicate submarine eruptions. Eruptions from La Souffriere, with ■team and flashes of flame, have increased apprehensions. '••'■' Speaking at * banquet to Board of Trade delegates at Toronto; the Hon. J. Tart©, Canadian Minister <rf PuWio Works, confirmed the early' establishment of a Canadian' line of fast Trana-Atlamtio «teamer». Mr Mulock announced that a oaxgo line to Australia would ye ' established in a few months at Canada's . ecßpenee, if (n«ce«B»ry; . Colonel Arthur Lynch, the member for G«l- --« way, in a letter from Paris to the Speaker of the House .of Commons, confesses that he •want farther than others in his sympathy with the Boers in their struggle for independence, to exhort which 'he overstepped the '-bounds of legality. In the matter of the tribunal before which he should 1 appear to be dealt with, he leaves himself at the Speaker's . disposal. " , # » ■ Field-Marshal Batzenhofer, of the Austrian Army, in an artiole in the "Neve Freie Prewe," aaya that the manner in. which the British fought the engagements in the penultimate atage of the wax and Lord Kitchener's systematic occupation of the theatre of War command! the greatest respect on the part of experts. The Army may look with justifiable pride on achievements calculated to enhance the military prestige of Britain, whoße worldwide domain has in no wise been impaired. .