RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8316, 15 May 1905, Page 2

RECENT NEWS.

♦ — - i A SUMMARY. \ The following la a summary of news whicJa did not appear in Saturday's "Star": — Another case of plague bas been reported at Ldsmore, New SoutE Wales, and one from Woollahra. The cricket match Australia v. Surrey ended in a draw— Surrey 225 and 256; Australia 292 and 199 for cis wickets. A labourer, his wife and two children at Leith, Scotland, were found suffering from plague, after sorting a cargo of rags from the East. The man died. *•* '. New Zealand has a fine comprehensive display of all her products at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. Victoria has a similar display, but on a smaller scale, because less money was available. No' other Australian States are repre'eented. . V Ten Northampton strike leaders, unable to find Mr Arnold-Forster or Mr Davenport in ipe House of Commons, were admitted to th© strangers' gallery. They interrupted a debate and were ejected. They attein&ted to approach the bar of the House, . and struggled with the police, who conducted fiiem outside. :" . V : It was reported in Melbourne on May J3 ! that a quantity of wreckage, consisting of tea, tinned fish and cases marked tea, Myaganaza,' shipped by {he Xiipton Company to C. Hardy, Rakaia, was washed ashore at Venus Bay, twenty miles s^uth of Outtrim. It is surmised tbafc the articles were washed or thrown over from a passing 1 vessel. *** • The eight-oared race at Sydney resulted:—Victoria 1, Tasmania % Jjew South Wales 3. The other starters were West Australia, Queensland and South Australia. The race was practical-y rowed in , two divisions. Victoria and Tasmania cleared out from the others. Tasmania led for a mile, when Victoria went to the front, and after a fino . struggle won by a length- The; New South Wales crew, which headed the second division ten lengths away, beat West Australia, after a great finish, by, a quarter of a length. Time — 16min 24gec, a record for the course. Single sculls championship — Bourke (Tasmania) 1, Evans (Tasmania) % Ivens (Victoria) 8. Won by six lengths^. Time— 20rain 3gsec. V Details of the- tornado in' the United States state that it struck the town of-Snyder at the south-west end and cleared a track half a mile wide north-eastward. No building was left standing. A boi'.er-fitting iron door was carried two miles, and books and documents sixty miles. The facade of a stone building beside the Vack was ripped away, leaving a gambling hall and paraphernalia exposed to view. A large draper's shop was utilised 88 a morgue, the bodies being laid on the shelves. Some of the corpses were without shoes or clothing, even the hair being torn away from others. The largest hotel was transformed into a hospital. A ' fresh tornado, a few miles eastward 1 , killed : twenty persons.