YESTERDAYS NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7698, 6 May 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAYS NEWS.

I A SUMMARY.

The following is » summary of news which did not appear' in yesterday's "Star":— : . . The nxanber of Bulgarians killed at Salonika was below one hundred. Cspe Pattern reports that there is no farther sign of the vessel mwkiiig distress signals. *** A man disguised as a Turkish* priest tried to throw * bomb into the telegraph office at Salonika, but was captured and executed. Senator Made Hanne, in an interview, declared tfcat President ■Roosevelt would certainly receive the Republican; nomination in 1904. j Mi Carnegie given on« imfHinn dollars ■ towards th« erection of iihe (New York liead-Su-artera of Hhe {National Engineering Sooie«s.' ' ' '■■-.; , - • ■■;■*. ■♦•• - '■■•:■.-.■ It has been ascertained thai) the deaths at Johannesburg, which it was feared were due to «n outbreak of bubonic plague, were due to pneranococcus. ' The French and British newspapers hail the ■ prospect of permanently friendly and trustful ■ relations. President Loubet is assured of a ■ great welcome in London. H . . ■ ' ' « # * ' H Mr Hay asks, in connwtdon , with the proH fected American, cbmroeipial treaty, that Pekfn H^houM be made an. open port, in the hope of ■ awertuig the partition of Qhina. , H j ". ■ ; /■• . • * * •. : H King Edward sent a telegranr to' President HXoubet/'waimly thanking mm (for *he recepHtion in France. The King slept 'aboard tlhe ■ SSbyM-yaciht, and will leave iOh«rbourg to-day.; H^iSittrea of dynamite have been discovered at HTTskttb, where a Bulgarian, has been arrested for firing {he eteatmer Gxtadalquiver at &aloHsuka on Tuesday, and endangering one bun- ■ dred and -fifty passengers. H General Andre transmitted to the tmilitaxy H Governor of Baris Bang Edward's congiatuHlsiions <xn the aippearance and 'bearing* of the Htroopff. At Bang Edward's instance) the troops B were, granted a day's rest. _ H A hundred Jawish. .families-, fearing nras■•acr«,"ihave'l«fti Kieff. Troops are .patrolling ■the, streets, assemblages iave been forbidden, •ad ■'$&* .populace has been warned that the H troops, in case of need! will use their iweapons. H Ai tihe Old Bailey, H. Bernsteim -mm eeato ten years' arid Goldman to five years' . imprisonment in connection ' with .< the of England •note forgeries. (Bernstein ■was urreated at Oape Town in January last. A' German steamer wQiioh lias arrived at ■ Bydn*y from tha Marshall Group reports thra't ■fae wreckage of an unknown vessel toafbeen ■wacbeA ashore. The opinion in Sydney is liuat ■it may belong to the French ship Duconedio, from San. Fa»ucieco .with wheat. H ■ The, following rifle team has been, selected represent th* Commonwealth at Bialey: — ■Carter, Grranmett; Whiteihead, laeutisnant ■jßickwood. Matheson, Inndgay, Soden, Henan, Like, Lloyd «nd Elwee. The team -to ba under the management of Colonel • ■■■■■■ , »^» ■ • The Western Australian Supreme Court, in « verdict for the defendant in * oase the 'Commissioner of BaoWaya claim.damages for ; »nest by a> radlway offlcea-, that art action could not lie lagadnst the it having been clearly laid iihat iihe bead of iie Depaxtment was not for the wrongful ects of his officers. • The Victtomn railway dispute is in an hopeless position. Last night the d-ele-of tie railway men had another interthe Preiai**. at which they refused to fever affili«.tion with tfhe Trades The Premier' asked the delegates if were aware that - they ' had adopted a position ©f disobedi-ence than before. action appeared as <vn indication Dhat ■Vtej did no+.^j»K>.|Br J*^ deprecated the <

Society's exacting conditions >at the point of the bayonet. T-ite Secreitacry <oi the Trades Haiti haa received promises of financial support from the railway men of iNe-w South Wales and West Australia.