YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), 6 February 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

■ ' ■'■ ■■ . ■■■■"". : .'- — •' *» • • — — ■ V' Tig following is a' summary of news «rhich- did not appear: iv yesterday's r'Star' 1 :— .■.;' :.; . • ■ Tihe Australiam drought relief -fund amounts jo over £17,000. ' • . : • • ■ .. Tiie hiea-fc-wttwe culminated" in. steady rain Jn> Sydney iast- nigh*. A ga£e is igigwg al°ng .'&? Victorian, coast. »Phe 'high seaa are fast breaking uip the Jtover- / lochy wreck. " <# . Lord Caxringtdn has been uriainrivptf&ly elected to tihe presidency oi tlie . National Liberal Club, ■vacant since Mr G.afeonee death. ,' . •. v /,' • . j ;. . . '•■'■■-. ■ ■• ■ Bulgaria chal'jeoges ',en- inferoa&tional inquiry into iibe Porte-' a statement with refer &c«e, to 'fcanda intending to operate irt Macedonia in 4ke spricg. ■ , . / . ■', . . • An 'address pire seated Mr Ohamiberjain »t- Bloemfonteip by the CaLcdfoniam, Cambrian ap.d Auatraliatt Associationis rejforred 1 to the liarah. admini-straitioo 6f martiai law. •;' ■ ;..•«•...■• ! Tho Kicg is making .progress. Sir Francis Lakiji(j, pbyßician-in^ordiniary to toe King, reports /that 1 ike- period in- which any conlp'ication 'i* likcfy is already .past, amd he- ,, anticipates early convfi^eceace. . ; ■ *ie "rhdicaiioc* l inat' - <fh^^'Powers v .^locltadui^ 'Veivezueia, with other ■ckimadts, -kill asstat -to- ac?tpt (three iron/Atf ,pfefc:en4ial treatni&nt. liaiton" Sterr/oerg, wbft is exceeding'y a.:'av« in the negotiations, is crtuitfd with Dhis compromise. . , '. News, has beeu received that tke lialian Hijhorities''ha ve arreated'the' Sheik Y.uiauf at Dbbia., conveying him to Aden, lie dffficu.tios of tran&nort froan Obbja' cxpeirienccd in, the -Som-iCilaioi' expedition have now been Werccraie. The Boor contingent is * Useful heGp. \ The *?■ Lancet " has 'been authorised to fetate that the Kir.g for a wesk past had' not lbeen feeKng in his usual -healith.' He complaiawd on Friday that h© wai more sensitive' \o cp!d than usual. Tie attack c;f influenza, vras Blight, and the King waa not confined to his bed, only to his room. ' ':' ■' ' .'■-. ***'• A presentation made 'io the Re.ich.stag of a Statistical trl'ile miiide 'by the Kaiser's .own -fcand, oarppiriig the stcen^'ibs or the British *nd German Navies, is intrrrr.retsd in Eaglaiid as significant of the Kai£*r's ultimate ambition. Tho "" Daiiy Posi/' suggests th« tuilding bf'.'ti British Korih Sea Squadron, comp-risirg eig-ii teen 1 battleships, and a new Ctval harbcux on i'-itis east coaaft. '.= ■ .:" ..■ ,.' v ■ - ; In connection with, the reccr..t:y-.formcd British Association 'for promoting an- inquiry into the. food supply in- "war iime, i ; he Drnke of . Butherlaoid 1 - p.-esidtfl at a large meeting vhereat the Association' via,* du."y initialed. A deiputattion wasap-poimteti to inteivinw tifoe Government on the smbject. Lcri Siritrhcoaa saidUthat it would be a great relief ta.fh? 'Mothtsrland «nd the colonies : £ mcasiires for the security of food in war time, wore initiati-3. 1 'A sign; of Mr Chen:ibeTlai.n's gxo.wing F-opxi- I larity and l the. improvedr.feeling ambngsii ihe J Irarghera is provided -in .the.f-act that^ <;ha:ee eections- of t'ho Boers, ths "Hands Uppers' (the name 'by which the burghers who surrendered! anre known amongst the Boers), the National Scouts and 1 these who continued figihKing to the end, joined in the prosen'tation ci *«o address at Bloemlfontein. There j^ -a< fcr!ing even amoßgJ'v vhe bitterest aecti^ni elf the, Boers l'hafc Mr ■•TJiarcftj-erlaini is d^eierinined to xig'ht all injusticee. ' j A fashionaijly-dressed' woman namedl Kate Porter ha-s been committed lor lirial in- Mel•Tsouirno om a» charge oi housfbreakini? s-ndi a eecond charge of /stealing from a diwelliug. Her arrßafi was ijhe'outcom-e c«i numerous robberies in the suT>uibs. Tir. several instances wh«i she wias, disco vercid' on the pTemiscs • fih« ii!nbcen.t'y .ejcplained that the -wc.s uT,der •ifie-imipressiorithat s'he-wa.s'in tihe house of a iriend upon whoro §he was .playing a practical joke 1 by pretending to be a burglar Sh« i Bhowfid:sreat distress, and profusely aipologised to "beirg in-fbrnned pi ther mistake.