YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7800, 3 September 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

'. Th* following , is a nummary ot^ne^s^whwU ;^iA faoi *ppe*r in yesterday's *.' Star J ':^-'' , ' The ship Miitcn Park, 165 days put -from ■jiiverpool to Fremantle, is, suppoaeu tojiave Ijjiben. tost. '■•••■»« ' ; f ; The Bulgarian .leader, Tohernoreff, -with 200 has "entered . Macedonia. The. Bulgarian i authoritifeß captured* and interned a party of ' &n*urgentß trying to cross the frontier, /. j ■■■• ' -A.*i floaiaig exhibition of British ■"ina'nufac-tnrei-will .start on a visit to all. the cq.on.es /early. iext. year, representatives one Jhundred firms accompanying iL •• «;' •-.. v. • - Samuel Parks, -walking delegate of certain trades unions, has been liberated on •■judicial certificate of reasonable doußtv.as io liia connection, with oharges of blackmailing, ••-:v.. .-i-i _..<•,■•;..-.■:'.■■. v ' . ;%* ' ■-. •.-:•;.; ;- - -v---.- ■>* A Kockhanrpton cable cays that three prosmectors, after two days' dish-washing, obtained 5 iiugget3 ranging from 6dwt to aoz, totalling 290z, in the bed of .tie Dee Kiver. A rush i*B set in. ' ■'"**■ • -Tb> Federal Senate adopted a resoluiioa id favour of the Government negotiating with the - State Governments with a view to -th-a. adoption of a system of old age pensions throughout ihe Commonwealth. ■■V- " - : ,-■•■■- „ Consular despatches from Prishtiua; state. =that most of the Christian; villages in tlie. Dibre and Caceo districts have been Imaged; and burned. It is not stated whether, iA.I-. banians- or Bulgarians <were the assailants. : ;■-.' ■■'■ V % " . ■ - Several engineering firms at Belfast- have given notice that a 5 per cent -reduction in ■wages will be enforced in October, v. owing to the keenosss of competition as regards machinery for export. (This will effect- 3000 employees. • A Eussian. -company at Tientsin charteredtl«, American-owned and British registered Bteamer Stanley Dollar to fetch lumber from Yongampho.' A Japan>2se gunboat prevented the steamer from entering the harbour, on the ground that it was not an open port. « Advices from Sofia state that the Turks plundered and burned Volkoder and Pokarnik, . Southwards cf Keseu. and attacked Soiiovo,* northwards cf Ma Ikotirnovo, expelling the insurgents. The troops entered and massacred the whole population and destroyed the village. . T ■ ' • • •• . Count Ziaovieff, the * -Russian Amfcassador, ar-d .Count von Rieberstein, the German Ambassador to Turkey, recommended/ greater energy : . -against the insurgents, and the appointment of a capable commandor, entrusted with the full direction of operations. The Sultan replied that he preferred that the operations shoud be directed from Constantinople. Diplomatiste fear that thas will lead to disaster. The Porte informed the Ambassadors that the committees in Bulgaria are shipping, ammunition' and supplies for the insurgents to the Iciadia coast.