RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7878, 19 January 1903, Page 1

RECENT NEWS.

A SUMMARY. Srhe following is a summary of news which did not appear in Saturday*" '"Star":— ■ " ' ■ !; : ' t ■ General Grenfell has been appointed copals, sander of the Fouruh 'Army Corps. . . .■■»•' ' ■ * The Indians at Koffyfontein found the -work ; tco hard, and have relumed to Kknbtrley. ■■;■■■ »j» The overdue Atlantic liner, St Louis passed Ifantuckot d<«d slow. 'A succession of gales sorely tried lihe boilers. \ . « a * The Czaor and Czaritaa welcomed the German ■Crown Prince at the Winter' Palace. At it State banquet the toasts were given iaFrcaich. Tha steamer Whangiape thaa arrived at. Sydney from Timaru. Sho was cohsidet&bly de- ' iained by stormy weaSher in the Tasraan Sea, Annie Walters and Amelia. Such, who -were concerned in the baby farming eaaej were found guilty and sentenced to death at the Old Bailey. #> ■ , , King Menelik has accepted M. Delcasse's invitation to visit Jibutil at the inauguration of , the railway. France will send a fleet to Jibutil to welcome him. . - ' , ;« % «- Mr Cbarobetflain, speaking at a. Johannes? buig banquet, suggested {hao t(ho Imperial Government should appoint ; a 'Royal . Comnrissi oh to inquire into tlho Labour question. Howden obtained «n injunction against the Denary (Yorkshire) Miners' Union, rfsir-aiin-ing it from paying money to strikers. The jury found that the men broke their contracts. .• ■■ "■..■■. ■• • » • .- ..■.'.-- . ■ i The " Spectator*" ruggests that mo Chinese' should be imported during British. Irusi" «sJvtp of tiie Transvaal. The decisknin Vb< raadter bed better be left to an autonomous Government. %• With a view of finally settling ihc question of supremacy between Major Taylor and D. ; Walker, the New South Wales League of Wheelmen has arramged to. run on Wednesday aughii a series of three and one male heat* for a prise of £100. •v . . A hurricane passed ea.sk of Fiji. There was rough -weather at Suva* and thiafe «re kmv& cf damsge at liabasa, 'X'aviuni ■and Lav. No re- • portis ore yet in- from, those ddsstrictst. A whirlwind airuok Lafcamba on J*n. 1, iand wrecked three cutters. L Several Fijians wero injured. .Despite Mho retisianc-o of the Minister of the Interior, tfhe German Reichstag, by lil to" 87, recommended- tariff treaties instead; of mc«t favoured nation treatment. 'Count ■■Herbert' | BismATck said that the resolution was intended to secure better commercial relations with the tJnited States. Germany'a Lanb-like imtdence was exhausted. . ■ : m Speaking «t a banquet iat Jcbaanesburg, Mr P ' Chambsdain said, that his expectations regaxdInc hia reception had been iully realised. _ He bad -been mudi impressed wii'h his interviews with leading Beers. Juet <and generous troatjnont would remove animosities and prejudices, \ and the virile qua lilies of t3ieir laite brave opponents would vo a strength! ta the nation. j . ' . • ' •••■■■ ' 'V M tiho Sydnty cycling Carnival, in the League Cup, M'sjor Taylor Jailed to win his ihea-t, .M'Donald, by a splendid sprmt, beiaiins: '..•liam-.i by c. length. The final resulted-^ Wa^k,^ 1, M/Domald 2, Morgan. 3. A •few inches separated thcta. Time— 2min ssec. Fir3t-c'ia.ss Haodicttp — Pye, 40yd8, defeated Walker by five yards. Tim©-^49 2-53ec. Eye, off a simdbr mark, de- • ieat«d Taylor in.ths qualifying boat. ' '• ■■ ■ ■ ■ •»" Sir Frederick SaTgood was Accorded a large funieral. The Governor-General was represented, and theTe was .a large adend'aoiee of .Sioite «.nd Feder»l meanbers. About 2000 members of military corps took pert. The Jiigh,oast« Indiana held a service >at thoir kcnrple for • the repose of the soul cf Sir Frederick Sargcod. The ceremony was similar to that Jheld at the time of t<he death of the Queen by the Indian-troops Melbourne. ' * • • ' ' - Cardinal Moran, in a speecJi at the opening of ft seminary at Waverley, traversed criticisms of. his recent utterances with 'reference to Sajaioa-. He stid that he 'had repeatedly laid the bliapis of the diegraceful rond di-ii.ttrcus atragglo in Samoa at the door of the Protestant initeioirary .agents, ond he was. convinced that shoulders (he main shnip of responiimust ultimately rest. Ho did not, howi^^^Tever, dfi3ire to exempt from bkmei other of~^^P'' )fl6i*ls engaged in the shiwueful proceedings. \ Mr Oopetand, Agent-Goneral for New South 1 Wales, itt the course of an interview by a r_er \ mrasentstivo of the "Baily Ohroniol«," said I *hat the action of t!be Rand capitalists was I iooltemptible: English a.nd Australian wark- \ turn had helped to save ihe mineF, *nd it was \ npyr proposed to hand the-ir legitimate employ V to a nctde of barbamiis. Tf Mr Ohflmbearlain ©OTißMiited to the importation of Chhs«ee labour, ■"' * it would far oiitweigh eil the good he- had ever embitter the- whole of Australia and Oan-ada, and make them i'he iayowed enemdes cf ibimflejf ,«<nd the Imperial policy. * Tte Preeident of tflie Hungarian Ministry, in kindling ihe Augsldch, said fh»t there would •be«n early joonv«rarion of State notes into gold, «nd the.e»tabUahment of aLCustoms tariff coinanoa to Austria .and Hungary, a-ad embodying higher duties to correspond with these of Ger»a>ny. Tthiio a balance would "b* establi'sbed between the protection «f Austrian ihdiistry «nd the protected condition of Hungarian ogrioulture. The tariff would be a defensive -w*a-' J>oo in the »«rotiation of treaties. A similar •Easement, by Dr Von Koerb>r in the Austrian radoharath wae lees favourably received.