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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIX, 28 September 1900, Page 4

A number, of the Southern cheese factories have sold their respective outputs for the season. Fiji-people appear very anxious to obtain Federation with N.Z.; Levuka cast a block vote in favor. Majority of colonists of the group aecord hearty cooperation.

Genl. Liebenberg, a Beer leader, is evidently a most inhuman man. Alter the invasion of Cape Colony he took 16 prisoners, one being a respectable tradesman and a proprietor ot town and farm property- This man offended the Boers, and Liebenberg had him stretched and held fast over a cart-pole and the General himself administered 25 lashes with the harness pole strap. At every stroke of the lash the human tiger scornfully said, * God Save the Queen.’ Three of the strokes cut the man’s face open, loosening some of his teeth. Such is the statement of one who was taken a prisoner, a J.P. of Griqualand West. The Rev. A. Don, the Chinese missionary in Otago, in an article in The Young Man's Magazine, says: ‘ Some fearful souls are talking of the partition of China by the West. Who lives to see 1950 will see Siberia East of the Yenesei in the hands of China or Japan. At Kroonstad the British artillery did some magnificent work. In one case they put a Boer * Long Tom ’ out of action in 3 shots at 9500yds—or 5| miles. It is interesting (says the London Times') to observe among the promotions in the Navy, earned by the services of the Naval Brigade in tbe present war, the advancement of Gunner Sims, of the Powerful, to be a Lieutenant. There are, we believe, only two previous instances in the present reign of the promotion of a warrant officer to a commission in the Navy, both in connection with services in the Soudan.

The cost of the British Navy, as shown by the Estimates this year, is nearly £29,000,000, which ia £2,000,000 more than last year and double what the Navy cost the Nation 12 to 15 years age.