RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7587, 22 December 1902, Page 1

RECENT NEWS.

A SUMMARY. The following is a summary of news frhich did not appear in Saturday's "Star":— ' Xhe Prrncftsa of Wales has given birtfc to a ••■••• • • The, "White -Star Jinex Arcbio has -been, •launched at Belfast. ■••.••».••;'• Sir Edmurtcl Barbon i*3 decided to permit ibh« Oruba battens to kmd. '' v : V- • ■•■ ' •-■■ Mrs Chamberlain, opened the (highest viafiuct on. the Uganda, Rai'iray. f ' ' , . -••■■■■■•. - Sir PhiHp Curzie, British- Atabaesadoa: at 'Home, has resigned owing to i'll-healtiu . The Humberts, the authors of the great JFteooh frauds, have been arrested! in Spain. ; . '■; ='-.■■••• ■•:■.■■ ■ ■ . ' The Argentine has srepatriattd text Spanish. Anarchists and twenty-five ' others, mostly Italians. v . . . .' .• i ; The new Legislative Assembly of Natal con- j jrlsts of twenty Ministerialists and! nineteen. Oppositionists. - ' ■.. • " . ' ■ The; Ardhlbishop of Canterbury slept better some little nourishment, bub he has Cob gained strength. An exohtange of' views is now proceeding between, the dUies an. Venezuela, tuna Me Hay towards at common, basis of arbitiration. ■ . *#*..-"■ ifcdvices from Port, of Spaim ebaie that a blocbade cf the Venezuelan! ports has been proPresident Castro's position is umcerUdn,' owing to eyirrrptomß of renewed xe-vo-lutaonaiy •tftivity. - The Huaasan Foreign Office has commumicated to the neyrspajpers a declanvtion "that had not addxeseed «my request, but had pimply informed Britain of ttie Bueaaan deaire •ad pnrpoae to enter into direct relations -with Lfghanistan. • ••• ' lit Balfour, replying to a member of the Iftmsa of • Commons, oodd thai the Cpmm.'CMi'wealth lww did n»t •• djacsriniinate "againist the Wio*herlaind. The "policy of excluding oontmct l&bour w«a entirely a matter for 'Austealian razl iament. ••• In •Ch* mciaon, Taff V«Je Colliery Company ■gai&at the AmaJgamaiwdl Railway Servants' Union, to -recover £28,000 ibz alleged loss >reeultisg from u strike, a vwdfct was given »^ain«t -th* E»ilway Strvants' "Ofnion. The >fi»esßmKnt oi damages -was postponed'. ' • . # • • President Roosevelt proposes ihjat G-ie-at Britain, Grennany aoidi Italy • eihculd submit the issues of i!h« Yenezuelau dispute 46 ihe H3gue tri'bural. The Powera counter-propose fbau President Boosevolt vhbujd arbitrate. PrtfbaWy he -will reluctantly .consent if zwoesoarj: to -avoid prolongation pf the struggle. > \:.. . . • The "North G«rman G-azett?," replying to Hie statements of the American. Press regarding the Venezuelan. -hronibls, stigmatifies Hhem us on unjust and- -wiMnlly preiydicial attempt to dliff erer.tiate tba policy of feernwny a.tid that of Britain'. Boih ure -wholly »c3 exclusively con-cenredi with the enforcement of just claims.