YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY.

'Th. following i« a «uaunary «f news I Whioh did no* appear ia y«-terday'i j The D_w_ge_ ttviewed 7000 wxpexioi troops , at Paotingfu. *** Prince Ohing ha* succeeded Yung Lv a_> /Grand Secretary. / *•" Though tihe general Dutch strike ha. been iajM-odoned, 6000 Amsterdam dodkfXß remain oat. Tojnmy -Moon ha/a been executed for the fnuxder of the «irl Smit«h. Death was _nst__ta_c©u_. Uladaimo Melba «iiled from 'Melbourne for __ond«n ye-terday. A large crowd entbusi-«st-_al<ly. farewell ed her. *» The Sultan of Morocco is da.missing most ; _f his _-U_op-»n officials, except Kaid Sir __jHiy Mac Lean. This step is taken with a (-_ew to propitiating his subjects. • V Ruash- in 1903 will increase her Fa. iEastern kgmuadron to ____ battleships, «levenja_ge and eaght -_n_-l oruisers, «nd forty-o^ie torpedo v-s-eia, with three admirals, 823 officers and 15,571 men. I •- *• __n edict isßued by the Dowager Empress d China repeals ; the stamp tax imposed by yuan Shi I_ai. The officials hope thereby to paralyse hit scheme and secure the. honest collection, of taxes. i" / *** , X hundred dn_nk_n. G-rman and Austrian ■c3fltie.s fought with bricks, knives and clubs fcT atfreet at PokirMn tihe presence of crowds «_ Chines., until patrols separated and conla_d the rioters to barraoks. ■ * Kiug _Mwa_d wiil- review the Paris G_rri_wo. on May 2. M. Deloasse will; ent«rtei_i him ai lunoheoii on. May 3, and President and Madame Loubet will be Kihg Edward's gueets ft the evening of May 3.' ■■''.. /-.*#. Reuter's Agency at ; Pekin reports that Rus-

siana explain that the evacuation of Niuchwang has been delayed owing to the d-eake to establish a-n- interaaticn-sd e.nitory co___-i_-sioai to prevent bubonic plague.

The Imperial Ottoman Bagdad Railway Company has been constituted -at Constantinople, whh a capital of fifteen millior francs. Herr Gwinner, manager of the Deutichc Bank at 'Berlin, acts as President of the company.

The -New South Wales Arbitration Court reserved its decision in connection with the application of the W'h_.f Labourers' Union that Hhe Union Company's island trading s:-e-a-_er_ should ba subjected to d_ep-s_a condition.. The company contended that they should be pont-olled by iiilcr-Siate

News has been received that the -Jorocco rebels captured Frajana. They exploded a mine, destroying tlie chief tower and then' stormed the fort. Forty-one of the garrison were killed and twenty-four wounded. Part of the garrison look refuge afc Me-lill.. The Pretender now controls the -whole of the Ri_ district.

The Spanish flag-hip, Nun-a C_n£t;-tn, which, with other vessels of the Spanish Navy, was sunk in Manife Harbour during Admiral Dewey's attack in 189-', has been refloated. The skeletons of eighty of the crow were, discovered. It was found that Dhouah tha hull was penetrated by fifteen shells, the vessel had evidently been scuttled -befo-re she ■was abandoned. ,

At the Sydn-ey showY high jump. . lUrree iroraea, Mr M'lrtosh's Tone-red, Mr Morton's Desmond and Mr Groin's; Strathmore, tied at 6ft 6in, and divided tho'pri_-S- The pre-vious-show record was 6ffc 5:::. At the stook sales in connection with lhe show, <>he draught stallioT.s DaimoTe and Glenroy, the property of Mr John Grant, of New Zealand, sold at 105gs and SOgs respective I j'.