NEWS OF THE WEEK

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue IX, 28 February 1903, Page 576

NEWS OF THE WEEK

Father Flint won the Waterloo Cup. O. Paracelsus was the runner-up.

A gun explosion at Fort Lafayette, U.S.A., killed four and injured eleven.

The Clyde shipbuilders have accepted reduced rates of pay. The Pacific Cable Board has decided to replace the deficient land line.

America has purchased the Panama Canal Company’s properly rights for forty million dollars.

The Clifton Hotel, Cedar Rapids, lowa, was destroyed by fire. Twenty killed, and 40 injured.

Ten inches of snow have fallen in New York. 5000 navvies are engaged in clearing the streets.

The picture of the Saviour in Isaak Cathedral, in Russia, and valued at £ 10,000, has been stolen.

The cruiser Spartiate will be commissioned in March to convey the relief crews to the Australian station.

The Pope received a thousand congratulatory telegrams on the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne. Mr Leeky, the member for Dublin University, has accepted the Chiitem Hundreds.

Mr Austin Chamberlain states that the Government is unlikely to deal with old age pensions during the present year. Mr G. B. Cortelyon, previously secretary to President Roosevelt, has been appointed Secretary of State for the new portfolio of Trade and Commerce.

Lord De Freyne is claiming £ 20,000 from the leaders of the United Irish League for inciting by their plan of campaign. The ‘’Times” says it is understood at Sofia that the Powers are prepared to go beyond moral suasion to compel the acceptance of reforms in Macedonia, Sir Spencer Walpole is negotiating with Signor Marconi for experiments with wireless telegraphy between Fanning Island and Honolulu.

By an explosion of gun cotton in Woolwich Arsenal one workman was killed, while Captain Partridge and three others were seriously injured. Sir Henry Norman unveiled the memorial erected to sixteen Fellows of the Colonial Institute fallen in South Africa.

Sir Joseph Ward, on arrival at Melbourne, was welcomed by Mr Drake, the Federal Postmaster-General, and a representative of Sir Edmund Barton.

The Scotch Court has ordered the Clyde Shipbuilding Company to pay Spain £67,000 for delay in delivering destroyers.

Russia is building several 16,000 ton battleships in the Baltic. Each will carry four 12-inch and 12 8-inch guns, and smaller guns and quick-firers. Yu Lien San has resigned the Governorship of Shansi, alleging ill-health, though really owing tot the Powers' protest that ha was concerned in the missionary massacres at Hunan. News has been received of the death of Prince Komatsu, aged 57, of apoplexy. The Prince represented Japan at the King’s Coronation. Ho was closely related to tho Mikado.

Cardinal Moran, accompanied by a number of laymen, will visit tho "missions at Norfolk Island, Tonga. Samoa, Fiji, Now Hebrides, and New Caledonia In August next.

Skidding on frozen rails caused an electric car, containing high school pupils at Newark, New Jersey, to burst through the railway gates at a crossing, and an express train colliding with the car killed 11 girls and injured 30 girls and boys.

Tho Acting-Governor-General has received a petition representative of a Protestant body, requesting that steps bo taken to inveatigato the Cardinal’s allegations of British brutality during

the operations in Samoa. The Germanic encountered a terrific gale on her voyage to New York. While the passengers were praying in the saloon, the captain emptied thirty barrels of oil over the sea, rendering it comparatively calm.

Reuter says that a sensation was created in the Italian Chamber of Deputies by Admiral Morin, Minis! er of Marine, declaring that the Italian navy for 36 years had been studying and working and preparing for a day of trial.

A meeting representing IO'I.OOO negro voters of New York State protested against the disfranchisement of the negro under the new Virginian constitution, and applauded President Roosevelt for having made a negro appointment in the south.

At a meeting in Paris, attended by 4000 of all parties, classes and foremost politicians, it was recommended that energetic action should be taken under the Berlin Treaty to suppress Turkey’s outrages against humanity in . Macedonia and Armenia. , - ,

The Queen Alexandra Imperial nursing service has been inaugurated in connection with the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. The Queen presented medals to the nursing, staff, and the King- handed the South African medals to the Army Medical Corps. The “Novoe Vremya’s” Constantinople correspondent states that Great Britain has notified Turkey that if the slightest intention is manifested to send troops to Arabia, Britain .will occupy all the Red Sea ports. The .message is interpreted to refer to the Aden Hinterland. ' ’ r -J .

Sir .Tames Mac Kay- addressings the Chamber of Shipping, advocated'retaliation on foreign countries ’Excluding British vessels from entering the jrortal trade. He instanced the unjust" treatment of British vessels touching at Honolulu. ;

A temporary injunction has been granted in Chicago .against the . Beef Trusts —the agreement,,p£ which provides that members shall not bid against each other at cattle sales. The injunction also declares that the fixing of prices by restricting shipments of meat is an illegal restraint on trade.

News from the New Hebrides states that the mission station, Ambrym, has been attacked by armed natives recruited from hill tribes. The missionary staff was absent at the time. The house was riddled with shot. No cause is assigned, as the natives have always been treated with kindness by the mission residents.

The Duchess of Manchester and her child were visiting an alligator farm in Florida, when a rattlesnake prepared to strike. The Duchess shrieked to the nurse, who removed the child and spread out her skirt, which the fangs of the reptile struck, and made her escape with the party before the snake could maks a second attempt.

Lofd Cranborne, Under secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons that there was an understanding with Russia with respect to the integrity of Persia which was not to be repudiated by either country. Great Britain had made strong representations to Persia that a commercial treaty with Russia was calculated to hamper British trade.

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy’s family have consented to his interment in Dublin. A meeting, presided over by the Lord Mayor, has appointed a committee to make the necessary arrangements, and a subscription list has been opened. The Archbishop of Dublin has offered the pro-Cathedral or the Church of St. Andrews for the reception of the remains. A meeting of Nationalist Commoners held in Dublin expressed deep regret at Sir Gavan Duffy’s death, and appreciation of his services to Ireland. It also urged the Government to give legislative effect to the land conference resolutions. ..