A SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7722, 4 June 1903, Page 1

A SUMMARY.

The following is, a summary pf , news . .(^hioh'did not appear in Tuesday's " Star ": — '-Lord Curzon intends |to push a motintain railway across the Himalayas into Thibet.' " * v The Chineso Resident has advised Thibet to settle commercial relations with India ia, _ : friendly spirit. * ■ Lightning exploded the submarine mines. in . Cherbourg Harbour -as a German liner Was entering. Sho had a narrow escape. i. ■'-' % # It, is reported "that tho Czar intends to projnulgate a new law of succession, enabling his eldest daughter lo succeed, failing tho birth of a son. ' ■] : ■ \Mx Nourse, a representative of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, has recruited a thousand 1 natives at Lake Nyasaa. Thousands of others are anxious io go couth. ?■' / *** The "Financial News" strongly supports U}r Chamberlain's, and Mr Balfour's prefercijt<tial policy. It prediots that the Unionist dissentients will commit political suicide unless they siffcport Mr Chamberlain, Tho Gauss reached Cape Town all well. She was icebound for -a year. Sho reached 60deg 30min south latitude, and communicated with the Discovery expedition. She wintered well) off newly-discovered land in latitude 66.2 south, lorgitude 80.48 east. • The total" fatalities at Tppeka- are fifty, about ihe mina at Kansas City, and fifty at Kaib Valley, Arizona. Six hundred square miles southward pf Keokuk are inundated. The loss of property «t Kansas City is twenty million dollars. St Louis is -threatened with a disss* 1 trpus flood. fA .Perth (W.A.) inventor claims to have in:.'vented a flying machine which will travel ai hundred' miles an 'hour, and carry a weight up to «> thousand tons. No balloon is used', the machine being a purely mechanical contrivance, driven by. a, gasoline motor. The military 'authorities have forwarded particulars of the invention to the Defenco Department at Melbourne. ■'■-*...•.-•■ # ' 'Half a million dollars damage was done by the tornado at jGainsvillo in two minutes.. The tornado was preceded, by _ few minutes' inky •o Hackness andl hot stifling air. Two of the upper storeys of, a mill. crowded with operatives were lilted and 1 carried) hundreds of feet. The railway station, a church and a score of cot•tages were demolished, tho eun shining again within five minutes. V At tho International Congress, at Brussels, Mr B. Picard, president of the Miners' Federation of Britain, presided. A resolution claiming an eight hours day was passed unanimously. The delegates of the Durham Miners remained neutral. Ai the instance of the British delegates, the Congress passed resolutions favouring fixing -the minimum wage andjnominating Miners' Union' candidates for Parliament.' * # » * According to Beuter the prospect of assemMing & Joint High Commission to settle outstanding questions between the United States ■sad Canada is less hopeful. It is hinted in official circles in Washington that since Mr Chamberlain held out the hope of preferential treatment it is noticeable that Canada is less desirous of reciprocity with Americas bfrnce the Washington authorities think that it is «nnece»sary\to convene ** commission for the considering of other and minor subjects. *»* Fifty-si^ Moors were killed and twenty wounded in the attack on M. Joqnart. The ■ Moorish troops brought to Fez twenty-five heads an_ 200 Kabyle prisoners. Two and a half batteries have left Am Sefr* and Beni Onmif. The l-aiter wiU be the future base acainst Figig, which will bo occupied temporarily. Moorish soldiers under French officers •re prodding via Algiers to reinforce the Fi■2_ Samson. TJio French forcee have mim- * monea tbe Zeaugua tribe to imrrender raur- ■ flferers and looters, otherwise -their stronghold tfill bei bombarded*. y^irghai "Sfawl Deutsche Zeitung" (a Berlin #ijii^il^ Canada