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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 05, 1902
Page
3
In a farewell address to the Boers, General Louis Botha Commandant De Wet and Commandant De la Rey say their European visit aims to raise funds for those rendered destitute by the war.
London August 4 The King invited Commandant Lucas Meyer and Mrs Meyer to attend Westminster Abbey for the Coronation. They regret they cannot accept due to doctors ordering them to take waters on the Continent.
London dispatch reports Mr Wolmarans meeting ex president Steyn at Scheveningen. Steyn asks Daily Telegraph correspondent Bennet Burleigh to say he bears no hatred toward Europeans. He plans to send his children to an English school and will stay in England briefly before returning home.
London reports influential Rand mining houses pushing for Chinese labor. The Times correspondent warns the plan is pernicious and intolerable and must be defeated at all costs. British labourers are needed for railways and may migrate to mines, inviting further Chinese immigration.
Reuters reports a broad political association to be formed in Johannesburg ahead of representative institutions in the Transvaal. The group aims to unite all classes and interests to inform authorities of the people’s needs.
In a letter from Liu-kun-yi the vice roy of Liang-Kiang asks for early withdrawal of foreign troops from Shunz hi. The Yangtse viceroys claim during the Boxer outbreak they could maintain order. British and French consuls back evacuation while German envoy abstains. Journal notes tensions over China Britain Japan and Germany amid pending treaties and river actions.
Rear-Admiral Taylor of the United States Navy says the Monroe doctrine would prompt a swift naval expansion in the U S. He foresees Germany increasing its navy and possibly absorbing Holland to secure Dutch Guiana as strategic gains.
London August 4 Victoria a new steamer for Pacific Steg Navigation Company launched at Glasgow. Troops tour Scotland as Australian Coronation Contingent entertains at Hopetoun House. Count von Bolow to accompany German Emperor to Reval for naval manoeuvres. Russian Italian trade talks follow King Victor Emmanuel's St. Petersburg visit. Witte's sugar conference proposal fails. American Lt Clelland Davies patents faster armor plate carburization using electricity. Plate resistance rivals Krupp and could be made in five hours versus weeks.
In Melbourne the Arbitration Court admitted a commission to examine Henry Lee Ernest Collins and others in the Professional Musicians Association of Australasia matter. The hearing, before Mr Justice Cohen, was adjourned to Thursday for an absent witness. A fragment mentioning a milk ad appears.
London dispatch reports the King continuing to elect meals with the Royal Family, sharing both lunch and dinner in royal company.
The King directs Melbourne artist John Longstaff to attend Westminster Abbey at the coronation to make sketches for a painting destined for the Sydney Art Gallery.
A consult ing committee for the defence of the Colonies of France has been formed in Paris. It includes the Generals commanding the colonial troops and representatives of the Army the Navy and the General Staff.
London August 4 215 p m Mr R Seddon speaking at Liverpool yesterday said the colonies indicated at the conference that the motherland might hesitate to follow She was slow to move Great Britain ought sometimes to fight other nations with their own weapons thus bringing about free interchange among all nations He believed the motherland and the colonies had a better right to the trade of South Africa than anybody else.
The Bald win Arctic Expedition returns to Norway after establishing large depots of condensed food at Crown Prince Rudolf Lund and Greely Island. The expedition, funded by W. Ziegler of New York, prepared for a dash to the North Pole with ships Frittje and others. Hammerfest welcomed the vessel as Baldwin plans an immediate advance. Crown Prince Rad Land lies north of Franz Josef Land.
Canadian newspapers largely support Gov subsidy for a proposed Atlantic steamship link by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to run weekly passenger service Quebec and Liverpool in summer and Halifax to Liverpool in winter. Freight subsidies asked at about £250000 annually meet opposition from board of trade and shipping interests.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick host colonial Premiers Colonel Crole Wyndlum and Major General French at Warwick Castle in London.
Mme Sarah Bernhardt has accepted Haddon Chambers new play for France. Mise Nellie Stewart will create the principal role in London.
On Monday a fireman aboard the R M 3 Sonoma jumped overboard near Sydney Heads while heading to San Francisco. Port Jackson recovered the exhausted man, and it notes tug boats often accompany Oceanic ships to assist stowaways. In Melbourne the District Court heard default income tax cases, most ruled for the Commissioners with costs. A magistrate inquiry recorded death by own action for Rebecca Wade, found hanging in a Fitzroy street room. Bryant and May’s Vuesta matches full size boxes.
In Cardiff the Australians faced a combined Wiltshire and Glamorganshire side, 121 all out in the first innings by the home county, and the Australians replying for 148 with Hopkins top scoring at 45 not out. Glamorganshire and Wiltshire boasted strong averages from Morgan and Stevens, with Lowe, Russell, and Smart among their leading bowlers.
The Brough troupe will drop Iris after Friday to stage four more performances of Pinero’s la tent play. The farewell Australian tour begins Saturday with an eighteen night run, followed by revivals of The Liars and Lady Hustworth's Experiment. Iris matinee Wednesday at 2 pm. box plans at Nicholsons for advance bookings.
The Aberdeen steamer Salamia arrived at Smith's Wharf Miller's Point with 22 returned soldiers from South Africa. The Federal steamer Norfolk, from Durban with troops for Sydney, sighted off South Head and later anchored at Watson's Bay awaiting the doctor.
The Melbourne English mails train from Port Adelaide faced two near disasters on a single run. A trolley loaded with bleepera wa observed on the track near Stawell but the train stopped in time. Between Dobies and Buangor a red gum sleeper lay across the rails causing another urgent brake application.
Carl Bergan, a labourer from Albury, was accosted by a man posing as Detective Hunt on the Sydney express. The imposter stole Bergan’s £2 from his purse during a search and offered a bitter warning before Bergan was released. Bergan reported the incident. police hunt for the suspect, described as a double for the detective.
A thick coal seam was found forty feet below the surface while two men searched for water on Claraville Plain, sixteen miles northwest of Arltunoga Gold Fields, near Alice Springs on the Overland Telegraph Line.
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