MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 4, 28 February 1900, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS.

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] j (Received 28, 1.37 a.m.) London, February 27. G(eat indignation is felt at the denial by the Duke of Orleans that he wrote congratulating Willette, the caricaturist of the Qisan in the Petit Journal pour Hire, a satirical paper published in Paris. The Duke's denial is not believed in France or England. M. Blowitz, The Times' Paris correspondent, states that the Duke has gone to Lisbon in response to a hint that his residence in England would probably be unpleasant. The incident has disgusted many of the Duke's supporters. The Lord Mayor's fund m aid of the Indian famine amounts to <£loo,ooo. The Right Hon. G. J. Goscben, Chancellor of the Exehtqier, in fie Houso of Commons, dc-prceated biii.ging down an alarm's 1 ; nav.il budget, it. was intended to spend in shipbuilding' 460,000 a year, which whs wore than Russia and France wore cxpendixy together. There was a difficulty ia obtaining armour materia!, and th« paucity of skilled labour rondaied it impossible to buiid faster than was now doing. Is was unnecessary at yi es nt to mobilise tho flea!.", as Europe know our strength, but tha restive squadron would exercise iu t:\eiie-. Sydney, February 27. The Rev. W. 11. Bjaio has been elected president of the Now South "Wales Wesleyan Conference, and the Rev. Thos. Adamson president of the Victorian Conference.