YESTERDAY'S NEWS.
A SUMMARY.
The following is a summary of news which did not appear in yesterday's ."Sur":— . ! The Shell Transport Company's steamer Ckm, wfaich ihas saxived at Sydney from . !Baboum, used oil fuel throughout the; entire voyage, averaging a speed of 9J knobs, on a dally consumption of 18 tons of oil, compared With 24 tons of Welsh coal. ' • • The King and Queen and the Prince of 'Wales attended al thanksgiving service a't St Paul's. The Lord Mayer and ctiergy received j.nd conducted the Royal party to seats near ' Uhe altar. * Dr' Ingram, Bisthop oi London, preacaea. In line course of his sermon, he eaid that Providence had twice saved the King's life to enable a more perfect fulfilling of the Kingly conception of duty. t - • At the Warthingtons trial, in Melbourne, ac"cuscd made a iedgthy, statement in his own defence to t'he* effect -iiutit 'Madame Juveny be- ' came interested and entered miu> his plans. (She did not lend, but gave him the money to assist in ■the work. Describing his own ■ troubles and worries (ho 'several tamos broke down and wept. In tho course of his state'nwiiu he eaid that from 1895 io 1899 his friends in New Zealand supplied 'hiiu . with ifa.e meanajoi living aaad rent in sums from '*■'•'■ £tb to £50r«ggregati._g thousands of pounds. He had been using the funds received from America to pay off Ibis Xew Zealand friends. Detail's of the ambus s "* of Colonel Swayne's column «how that iib© Mullah's followers charged up to the right flank While the British were marching through dense jungle. A body of 'African Rifles, accompanying Colonel Swayne, . opened a severe fire, compelling iho enemy to swing towards ihe centre and left, where the British transport overlapped. The line was broken, a Maxim gun and many transport animals being captured. Lieu-tenarat-Colonel Phillips was shot while rallying his troops. The disorder spread to the centre gun-teams, which were driven back. Captain J. Neil Angus was killed while serving the guns. Colonel Swayne's charge checked the enemy. The African Rifles recaptured • eomo c!f -the -transport, and later, alter .another _harp fight, Sfce camele wore recovered. The M-uliah had fifty-two "killed and *the British seventy, j
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7543, 28 October 1902, Page 1
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