RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7725, 8 June 1903, Page 1

RECENT NEWS.

A SUMMARY. Tha iollowing is % summary of news • «hioh ddd not appear in Saturday* *"Stkr":-j- :■■ The Mwquis of Salisbury is sufftoing from / : a, sever* cblil, but is. .progressing favourab.y. ..-*■• The iMirque Tropic, about whose safety ■much *nxiety was- felt, arrived at Melbourne. ' yejterd»y v \ • ... y' # - # .- *•- --: ■" .*'■ . A d«lft Ordinance providing for .the Trans- " vaal'sW-fcry into'th© Customs Union>»has been x«3d.a fir^t time in the Transvaal Legist ;,*""•>;/.' -y • ..%*■ -.'■ :*••• \ Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sir W. - V*rnon 'Harcourt etrongly oppose Mr Chambet- , lain's proposals -of preferential- trade between Great .Britain and the colonies. ■■'■■:.-. » *.* •'*■■■ "i A-Servi«n -newspa*per .reports -^hat-a priEoner, 'during t_.oi.* , coursß of -the inquiry into the Salonika __xplo_ionß, . declared that he paid -370 to ihe Turkish police and Customs officers for passing, the dynamite used in b.owing up ' the -Ottoman . Bank. ■-■•' n 1 .. -. '%* " Thero was a gjreat review of troops at Sydney on Satuiday in honour of the officers ot the Japanese Squadron. Three .thousand iour. Jbuxdred Australi-vi troops, 660 British •'■■■. navai m«rt and 600 men of the JtapaJiese Navy were reviewed by the Governor-General, in the pre^nce of 56,000 spectators. k. v :- • " - The " Daily.* Express " states that Dr Aldrich, in practice at Clapton, -and formerly of Charing Cross Hospital, hypnotised a. l*<jy for the amputation of a leg. The^stirgeone performed » -Minless .operation with wonderful suoce*. iThe patient's pulse and ,temper«•Wfe.wero normal, and there wereno syroptoms. .oi 'shockl ' ■"#*■ / „ '. • ' ■ ■.•' : Lord Milner, -replying at' Johannesburg to "-an anti-Asiatic deputation, said tha;t' whatever -V io_3»l-«is:ation takes, -rights acquired before i xhT w-M- " must be' respected. Indentured V-Asiatdos might largely bo wanted temporan.y in the mineß and publio works, hut the country was still *« long way off' that, and it was mot eertain '.that Asiatics were prepared io cOme^Mortover, t^ Horne^ Governmeot would *not tfUow the importation if.it >be- .' Jfani that- th? mass of the j Enrpp«» popu- : y Jation was opposed' to ■'•-' The Bloemfontein Customs Convention ihas W published. It cancels the ad valorem -" Sfesfonvthe following articles, substituting W dXs :-Cattle 30s, -wheep Ss, .to«at_ (in___i^ne lard) IdVper .b (*H these are suspended 2d per^lb; cdnden-sed miJi, _d; coal, 3» per ton; coke, 2s; corn, Is P cr lK c^i ft te «s; fodder, Is; fruirs,.2d per lb. The Co^ - fentioh giknts (rights to an „-■■ duty en sugar **%*l to the «mount of the honW allowed hy C S Brussels Convention. ' 'Wmes, 20 pcr ■ -ceofc . nroof,y_s per gallon; , not .f*W$ l 7& <£.. p a e ? 6 &aTkilng,-.12s 6d plus 10 per cent^ad valorem. A reba4of:2s Percent is «£owed . en- articles the growth, pTcduce and/ *manu- --'-'* facture of the United Kingdom,;- also .the of British "colonies granting; ce- > ciprocal privileges to. ihe -South African ." Union. ■■* ' * - ; * *