NEW OF THE WEEK

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XXVI, 27 June 1903, Page 1785

NEW OF THE WEEK

The Russian Government is building three fast torpedo boats to strengthen the Black Sea fleet. The mountaineer bandit? at Zeenst have eaptured Mr Harris, the ‘•Times” correspondent at Tangiers. Mr Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has conceded the abolition of perpetual rent charge under the Irish Land Bill. The cold store of the Imperial Food Supplies Cdmpany at Nottingham has been opened. The building has a capacity of 60,000 cubic feet. Five hundred persons were drowned in the floods at Heppner, in Oregon (U.S.A.). The damage is estimated at a million dollars. A cloud burst in the Western State Of'Oregon, flooding a creek, and a torrent swept over the residential parts of the villages of Heppner, Olgon and Kennington. It is estimated that 450 people have been drowned. Complaints arc made that reecnt arrivals of New Zealand meat were damaged by the use of inferior ink-branding wrappers. The assessors allowed lid to 3d per stone on many careases. The reports from the meteorological stations of the London County Council show that five inches of rain have fallen in London in the present month of June, and that of this the greater part fell during the past week. It is announced in connection with the approaching visit of the United States squadron to Kiel in connection with the German celebrations, that the fleet will afterwards proceed to Portsmouth, where a week will be spent before returning to America. The Conference of the Allied Colonial Universities will discuss at their meeting the co-ordination of University education throughout the Empire, and the development of post graduate courses in applied science, and other subjects of common: concern.