GENERAL NEWS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 11 March 1902, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

London, March 6 Sugar Bounties Convention signed by the Powers concerned. Count Leo Tolstoy is rallying. Dense fog in London. Traffic and shipping jtlisorganised. Casualties in the Channel. In United States blizzard of snow and sleet lasted many hours, blocking trains. . Famine is threatened in New York. Czar, in autograph letter, invited President Loubet to visit St. Petersburg. President will leave in May. Alavantie, relative of one of the pretenders to the Servian throne, attired himself in general’s uniform and attempted to raise a rebellion. He fired at a captain of Gendarmes, who returned the fire and mortally wounded him. When dying he confessed that he had been prompted by pretender Karagorgevitch, .who denies it, attributing the rising to the machinations of the Government. Sydney, March 6 Promising rain passed off with few scattered showers. Melbourne, March 7 A man named Lynot murdered his sweetheart by. cutting her throat, in a cemetery, and gave himself up to the police. Wellington, March 7 The report of the Commission of Inquiry on Port Halswell prison completely exonerates the warders, and discredits the charges against general management of the prison. Auckland, March 7 At the Dargaville school picnic a bridge collapsed with a number of children on it. and they fell into a stream. No lives were lost, but several limbs were broken.