YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7687, 23 April 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY.

Tka fcll<mißg is » •ummary of news rWch did •«>«*_ * 1 •■*«** ■ Star":- ■... • ' ' The King has arrived *t Syracuse Bay. Mr Balfour states -thai no change has taken lace in the Bagdad question. The Kussian Geographical Society is sending - scientific expedition^© Mesopotamia. Tie Enriish employees at Fez refused to J«t uSss -the French-military misuonqmt multaneously. # m - The Council of Elders of x Norfolk Island Sea in a body aa. a proteat agams ; the og^tax, also to direct attention to other cieva-ncesv # » The German AsiaUc^aUway Company 'has Me SUte lail-ways-Albert Adams, * wealthy il f\.°^^' rknamed the "Policy King of 3Sew York, Sid toi year's impmonment r keeping a betting establishment. The Lord Mayor of London opened the Bal--5 Mercan-til* and Shipping E S ch an ge «l St 'ary Axe. It is the handsomest and comitest in .<he world, costing half a. million. TheHight Hon R. V. Hanbuty,- speaiing i*he agricuttaial vote, said that owing to e^rofitoble.use made of offal at- Chicago it id Americans better -to send dead meat than rb Rattle to Britain^ , . . hi cormeotion '.wriOL- CoW, . Cottls caplure aBOO camels in Somahland, Xaeutenant .-twenty. Somahs, cnaiged. a| rty of tae -enemy in the- bush, nimselt killXi K i eight. • Hio.hors© was speared. Tho m!tryr arriving, killed sixty, and captured six. Ihe Vienna, correspondent of the "Times" ites that an official despatch from Constan•ople asserts that many Albanians have been rested there. Precautionary measures have en taken in the Albanian garrison at Zilias, tere the auspicious element has been exiled. Sir William WaEteneys, barrister of New aland, has been declared bankrupt on his fefa petition. The liabilities are stated at KM) and "there are no assets. In the course examination he attributed his failure to his fe'B litigation. Ch» Australian State Premiers' Conference b concluded- It was resolved that States raid' he compensated for properties taken sr by the- Commonwealth by payment in ih or in ' Commonwealth bonds at 3J per it ; that the debts of States should be. taken tr aa soon as {possible ; that aliens naturasd in one State should not be considered ens in another State ; that States should intain.-<the right of directly communicating :h the Imperial government on matters ihin their own powers without reference to » "Commonwealth.