YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7765, 24 July 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY.

The foMowjng is a summary of news which, did not appear in yesterday.! "Star": — .

In the House of Comincns- tht Lpridon Education. BO was reid a third • tiros- by 273 to 118. -v ■-.._, M

The value of Ouadk's trade during the- laat fUcal year .was 476,€37,0>1d51, an increase of 43,750,000d0l compared wiih the previous year.

The Mhk-.m Estate wa? cff«r=d fcr sa'e in J Londen yostjrdiy. No bid; vcro forthcoming, and! the property ' was wit-h<sra-n'n. Mr Jones i was loudly cheered. V \ ' *•* In the Fideral House the Naval Agwement , Bil I pasted through oom'ftritiee, -and), was re- '" ported wiihout anwedment. The third reading was fixed for Tuesday.

The bedy of the Pope is lying m st-nfe* in ' the chapel of the Ho'v Sacrament at Saint Peter'£ Ifc ia Tcbed i» Pontifical vestmt.its with agbldf-mitre o;\ ihe head. »

The value of the eilv-cr, tin, copper, lead and! coal, exported from New South W?.lcs for the Julf-year shews ■»' total increase of- £159,000 compared! -over the corresponding half-year.

Mr Chamberlain, i-n reply tv a question, ■aid' fha* neither the Governou-nt, himself nor any of the Unionist Party had suggested any taxation- , on raw materials, whether wool' or fcidea.

,*'. A Queensland! 3J per .cejrt Joan, of £750,000 ' has* been issued- at 96. ' Traders c'.ose on ' Tqesd-ay- The loan haj beam underwritten' on tihe usualf term-, aT.d is now quote* afc i per cent, premium.' _ .

;" The General; Manager of the Pacific Cable . Board is -expected' to ojsrive iv Australia. -.in a ' couple of montha. He intends to organise a ■yatemi by which special facf.ities and inducements, will be given to business men to uso the l?acific line.

, if. de Plehwe, "Russiam Minister of the In- ' terior, has warned! youmg Jews that unless Uhe *nti-G overnment raovconer.t ceases the Jews will be got rid of. partly by emigration, mod willi be exc>dled from ihe -schools, in order to rerkrer their living in Russia impoa■ihle. y

At the Homehush' (Sydney) sales aheep were in heavy supply, and prices all- round, especially for heavies, were easier. Best wethexa 19s, extra 23s 6d, good) 16s to 17s, best ewes • 17s fid, extra 30s, good! ISs 6d to 16s €d. , Cattle were firmer. Best 'bjilloc-M £11 15 a, extra £13, good £10, brat cows £8 to £3 -10s, •ood £7 10b. Best beef sold r.t 28a per 1001 b. •* • V . •» The King xeceiv.c- score-, of addresses from religious, philanthropic, artistic, _oienHfLc, .md-Tstjial. commercial and local government "bodies. In lie course of a general reply, ke fxpreaaed profound' happiness tlbat. hia i raign warn coinoidnrt with a new e.rw of social Seace and industrial and' commcrcia? progress iron-shout' Ireland. Fifteen hundred persona attenasd a levee a-t Dublin Castle. ■ • • >__

Mr Austen Cha-nherlain, addree-ing the Bitimmghaan Chamber of Commerce, 'declared Aa* the fiscal inquiry wae a device of its •npporters to stave oft discussion vntil they •weire ready to! C3mm*nce a-V raging, tearing Sropagatda throughout - the country. In fhe ice of thia declaration the 'Charabefr adopted » icaolution exprewihg Sympathy with Mr Joseph Chamberlain* 'ficoal soheme. , ." •

Aa a first imatalmen* of the fiscal inquiry, the Board of Trade haa kwueld a< return, showtrig that betwaen >_8-l ooS 1992 tlw? imports to Britain increased/ fron. 889J .mil-ion; to 528 1-3 mil'.ionf and the exporta increased* fron. 205 1-3 milHo.tr to 849 1-3 million. Of the 129 mallion fciaftasedi imports, 116 million, came from foreign countri***. The imports from' the atttonomoutj colonies increased from. 4&4 mi> llain. to rreiTly 60 million. From other colonies t&e increase amounted' to 24 million. The imBorts from India from. 35J million' fcr Yd mil-ion. The British, exports ro__» in

twanty-ono years hy ot million, or, deducting for&ig.i colonial prc-cluco u-r.d ships, by 46 ' niillion. India audi the colonies account for 25 -million of this increase, a*»uT foreign* countries fcr SO mil!: ora. Between IS3I and 1 1335 ths colonies a.r.d India* annually bought. 91 mi.' L lion- cf British produce, foreigners taking 151 million. Now foreigners* lake 174 million, the autonomous colonies 60 1-3 mi..io n, India* nearly 3-2J miJHcn, and other colonies IG million.