YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7891, 22 December 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S NEWS.

A SUMMARY. The following is a summary of news which Hid not appear in yesterday's " Star ":— Jajwmewj officers ore instructing tihe ImJjeri*): troops at Paotinfu. Serious doubt da cast on the authenticity of Sil« " Kolnisohe Zeitu-np's " story ; V ■An earthquake precipitated the southeastern peak (of (Miount Rainier into the falley. ••• Th» counting' of the "Mew South "Wales referendum Ttfte has commenced. So far there te «tn overwhelming majority fot a reduction ef 'the State House to ninety mem<bers. • ♦ Signor Ti'ttoni, Italian. Minds+er of {Foreign. lASairs in the Chamber of Deputies, annionaic•B ItaJy'a firm adherenoe to bhe Triple AMifcace. He censwed dillettea'te Irxedentism. • * Chengyi, director of the Northern railways, Bias been degraded beoaiise he*soW t!he Kaiping mines m 1900. Unless he recovers possession of these he will be frirther punished in February. • • ' Mr Woodfard, British Oomtnisssouier in the fiolomone, reports that the annual exports from -Hie group laanount to £35,000. A direct Steam semoe with. Australia k needed to pus!h file deveJopntent Krf the group. • Tlte Ja-panesd liegation. offiemls at Peltin fteoognise +h*t a pra.vs crisis is aiyproaclhing. UUhe Japwcieae ■military attache at Pelern, *ljro » oolwael of ■&« JfliJanese awny, -wlio"£iae b?cn jnstruotfne 1 Yu«*O' Shi Eai'« tiwps, have started Stamewaxoa. V / The ToMo correspondent of th« " Times " piys that ft is und-erstood that Japan has •eked Russia to reconsider heir reply, •w'h.icih contains no tangible concession, and excludes Japan froni Mftinchuria. Ja.pan proooswi ttie ©qua] position of iJhe two Powers in Korea. • ♦ At •ffhe rHomebnsh (Sydney) sales Talnrs ureT© easieir. Best wethers 179 6d to 19s 2d. rl6s io 17s', ew©», best 16.« to 19s. good 6d. Oattle were st«ad>y. Best bulloolrs £10 to dßll 9s. goorl JE): cows', best £7 to"f9 f», good iXi 109. Best beef sold at 35si 8d to Hb per 10011>. Adnriral "Wirenru?, ■witih 'Tie ftrpt-clase bn^tTeJfcip «nd •Mi* second-cfe sa cruisers '^Lurora f.nd Doiterrido^Bwltor and fira de- • ttoyers. is at Bizerta. His fleet will shortly *« seinforced by six destroyers proceeding -to

the Par 'East. Four first-class battleships are noaring completion in t'ho Baltic. Sir E. M. Sato-w, the British Ambassador, i 9 inquiring into the origin of a circumstantial i report in Chinese native newspapers that Bmt- . am, in i'he event of liussia retaining (Man- | churia, proposes to establish a protectorate in i the Yangtze provinces, appoint a Viceroy and j maintain ft prestige equalling that of ituaia.-! The report ha.9 excited a feeling of hostility towaids Britain. A-a unfriendly source is . suspected. ■Count Goluchowski, addressing the Hungarian Delegation, *aid th&t Austria and Hun- [ giiry were determined to maintain the Triple Alliance. To establish. Macedonia under a. Christian governor was inadvisable, inasmuch «s it would provoke Mohamet-an resistance, j Tto create another 'Eastern Boumelia- would destroy the balunce of power in the 'Balfeans. Austria and (Russia, 'had ehown great tenderness to Tutkish susceptibilities, but . Turkey must change if she wished to live. It «he was J unable to change herself ' her interests must, j be managed for her. He warned the Porte to. beware of reads'banc© less clhaos and ruin should result. •••• Mr Winston Churchill, in a letter to Mr Home, the Liberal candidate "for Ludlow, says that freetrade involves two conditions, each of profound importance to the electors, cheap food and ihoneat government. Mr Chamberlain's victory would deprive the mation of both these. Ii -was expedient to consider whet/her or not "the time tad come for freetraders of all parties to- unite agairast tfecir common enemy. There were millions of freetraders. " Germany and America, destpite monopolies- tfnd all kinds of corruption, were struggling towards tihat liberty and justice we en-joy. We must not extingush our lamp \of economy and truth ■among tike nations wiheni it was most needed.'