Recent News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8705, 20 August 1906, Page 2

Recent News.

A SUMMARY.

Tlie following i» a summary of news which did not appear in Saturday's "Star": — The death sentence on the Sevastopol mutineers has been commuted to twenty years' penal servitude. *•* "' The barque Sardhana, a hundred and nineteen days out from Wellington to London, waa spoken on August 12, and is shortly expected to arrive at London. Th& road race frcm Bathurst to Sydney •was won by T. Larcombe, who completed the journey at six minutea past five. Merrick was eecond'. Hi? time was three minutes longer. . •. The Portuguese colonial . authorities have granted the It-obinson group of mines in the Transvaal a license to recruit native labour on the same conditions as those granted to ths Witw&tersrand Native Labour Association. ** # Three bombs were thrown from a balcony in Natolinska Street. Warsaw, at the Go-vernor-General's carriage. Two exploded behind the carriage, smashing the windows of neighbouring houses. It is reported that the Governor received concussion of the brain. Just before the Governor passed, three young men, armed with revolvers, ordered the tenants to leave the flat from which the bombs vrere thrown. V Weddel's annual Teview of the produce trade says it is disappointing to find that there is little real advance in the qiiality of Victorian and other Australian butters. Government grading, may cause an improvement but hitherto it has not been well done. There will be no satisfactory result until grading is made compulsory. The outlook for the seafon ia very favourable, and lastyear's prices are likely to be escced'ed.