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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 January 1903, Page 3

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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.J Chinese Affairs. Eeccived this day at 8 58 am London, Jan 30. Three thousand Chinese troop 3 have been ordered to tho borders of the Kwaichow where the rebels ia a strong force declared their intention to capture Canton and hence strike at Pekin. Macedonian Affairs. Reuter's agency states that events in Macedonia are being keenly watched. Odessa commissariats have been ordered to be prepared for eventualities. Austrian Tariff. Vienna, Jan 30. The new tariff gives Hungary the complete control of the Austrian market for grain and cable. Russian Tariff. St Peter-burg, Jan 30. Russian tariff on German imports has been trebled. Cuban Army, New York, Jan. 30. Cuba's disbanded tinny threatens to occupy towns to collect fifteen million dollars arrears of pay, the Government promising only half. Barque in Difficulties. London, Jan 30. The barque Julius Palm which left Glasgow on the 10th for Wellington with a general cargo returned to Greenock, the cargo having ehiftid. Employee's Houses. Capetown, Jan gO. Gove.ntnent employees' houses are being erected at Johannesburg at a cost of £1,000,000. Rent is not to exceed one sixth of the salary of the occupan's. A Turkish Row. Constantinople, Jan 30.

The Sulfon asked the sons of Mahmud Pasha, who recently died, to deliver up hi } body, the Sultan being unwilling that it should rest in Christian soil. The sons replied that the body wa3 interred in a Mus.-ulman cemetery. The father's wish was never to return alive or dead, under present Government to Constantinople. Mahmud was a brother in law of the Sultan and secretly left Constantinople in 1899. He addressed a letter to the Sultan, ftrongly condemning the administrative system and rampant despotism. Ho took refuge in Corfu and was sentenced to death in default of ignoring an order to return to Constantinople. He then fled to Europe where he worked in the interest of the young Turkey party. Hallway Collision. New Yoek, Jan 30. Thirty-five were killed and forty-seven injured in the Tucson railway accident. The oil in the engine tanks ignited the debris, interfering with rescue work. Halton, a Boston millionaire, was araoDgst those burnt to death.