YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7508, 16 September 1902, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY. ' Ths following is a summary of news which did not appear in yesterday's "Star":— __r -Reits has _ri_nged a 'lecturing tour ttueoog-, tiia United States. » •* c Two* . hundred Boers at St Helena are Higning the oath of allegiance daily. • v X man empfloyed 'in an hotel alt Towns▼ille (Queensland) haa been attacked by Tbe. "Morning Post" states tin-. _he disstmuMot of <fhe- n__ve_ in ~ou_i iAfrica is • ■•■■■-•■ .• . _ . .... .The Boer, generals urge the ui-ecoacil-ble-io restrain the anti _3ri<-__ propag__da> and *so____oe<nd a policy of reconciliaJlion. • • • * The ;Madrae-Bombay .mail train was precipitated into a river through a bridge having been washed away by a flood. JM early fifty lives ware lost ■■• • . Ths Untted States Gover: nment ia not sanguine regarding 'the proposed reciprocity 'tveafcr witih GS*wfo_indl___, owing to the Be__we general artstdtuda • • . The "Daily Mail" states _fe_ Newfoundland has agreed to a renewal of -he mod— s vivendi ■witn France, for another ' year, in order to fao-Mtate a settlement in 1904. ■__ -v„ . . - . Prince Francis Joseph' of Brag_n_a, one of ; *_c 'Boy-, guests ait King Edward's Coro- I ______ who was committed -fox trial on a fertai-, <rimin*4 chaage, hae been acquitted. '■-'■■^r''.. '•-_■—.'.' , : . • . : A- meeting of -twenty thousand persons in. Phosnix Park, Dublin, protested against the xsoant proclamation of the Province of Oon-aaug-t .under the Criminal Law Procedure Aot. ' It _r estimated tthat it will require three Tears to extirpate glanders in _i_ horkes tad cattle in tine Tranaviaal. Every military _.orse camp in. South 'Africa is more or less 4-ffeotecL - -*».• Signor (Marconi ©looms that he has sur-tnou-—ed -he transmission difficulties' connected with light, a-nd -aiflrms- th ** it is possible to oonjanunicaie 'between squadrons in the Atlantic _ nd the Mediterranean. ».» The Pone, in -PapaJ brief addressed to Car-d-nil Richnod. of Paris, refers moderately and sadly tto the troubles over the French schools question. He is evidently anxious not to .provoke the d—aunoiaition of the Concordat. •. •♦_* : M. Pelieban, Hibisto of Mariiie, speaking st a. banquet at iA.jaccio, emphasised the •trategioal vialue of •Caraioa to France, and •aid that -he eastern coast of Oorsiba aimed •tbaight alt the Jheart of Italy. Corsioa must be fortifled when, finances permitted. ••••.•■ Prspani-ions are 'being made by the Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay -to lery • «_x on natives' extra wives, with a view to ttnifwm regulations on the matter 4— .roughOQt South Africa; This is the result of Lord Milner- recent visit to Delagoa Bay. The B*p_b-i__n_ in eleven iSt_*es (have deoided to re-nomdnate Colomel RooseveH for «he Presidraioy. The New York Republican Convention over-ruled „ Pktt, who re-c-a-tty declared .that ''Jie Convention would not pledge itseM to support President Iloosevelt's oa-didiftture. *»• , Besides *he Aga_«monit-s. a hundred of *he public were admittec. to the " lArk of the' "Covenan." at Claphnm Cljondon). They angadly protested againsrt Piggott's renewed ohvim io be ihe Son of Man come again i„ the flesh. T-tree thousßadv w?io were no«j sdmiitted, followed 'P'«*toll's oarriacre hom-waide. tooting h_m. Mounted police prevented v_ole_o*.

■ ..'■•••, Lord I/o_do_de-Ty, in tne course of a re-O-ttt speech.- 'ssid 'that he regretted that inl*bea_ ol showing praotdoal sympathy with disabled, sick end. un-cTrnioloy-d soldiers the people o-_ered *he Boer Genera... who were mainly reason sible for "fihe proilongaiMon of the w__. He hotted fihfiit th* country would re-ni-_iibai'its dtrty. ' It would be a disgrace if ,t_ns_appine-_ easd cUscomf-irt were n,ll»4w_ to come upow tiho-e wiho nobly foueM foTißritain.