News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 168, 27 June 1901, Page 4

News Items.

An Engine Drivers’ Union has been formed at Timaiu.

In Mr Consul Chaffee's report on tho Chinese campaign he asserts that looting und indiscriminate shooting of coolies caused a distrust of tho alii. a. For oneBoxer killel, fifty hirmlsss labourers were .akin, including not a few v. omen and children.

Mr Balfour, addressing Conservative agents at Ho bora Rest ui ran *, 'aid tir Id. Campbell-Ban ermWs asrertkn that the war had been conducted barbarously was a scandalous and shocking statement since none had ever been conducted with equa 1 humanity.

The Timea’ Shanghai correspondent states that according to a high naiive authority, Germany with England’s consent, opposes that China will pay -m 11 amounts of the indemnity for t! e fi'st fourteen years, and increased amounts daring the twenty-six followingyears.

Tho Treason Court at Burghersdorp sentenced seven members of the V-m e■stad Committee to terms varying f,om 1 ■ix months toftwo year?, and in addifon 'i fined them i’sooo. :•

The Fiench Consul informed a .Sunday Times interviewer that the Fiench wen the first to take possession of the New Hebrides. They intended to stick to them and to pn ve they w<r. ma krs.

Thirty witnesses failed to p siiivoly uien ify Lillywhite as Blatch. They all admit that there is asvriking resemblance, Lillywhite conversed with his bro.htr Isaac, recalling many incidents of their childhood.

Th ! I roni-r of Tasmania hr.g protested I against the Postal Bill interfering with si ihe conducting of Tnttcrsall’s sweepg % through the post office as an infiingemont of the Stale rights of Tasmania. *