VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 103, 18 June 1900, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

11 (PEH I'KESS ASSOCIATION*.) * Hcceivod 10, 9.20 a.m. L ndo.v, Juna 15. j The Daily Telegraph stales that s cwenty-three thousand natives on tbe j Uongo have risen against the Belgians, £ The Shah of Persia, who is visiting j iiuropp, Ims reached Paris. 0 The ail'.iii's of iJumhell's Bank, Isle 1 jf Miin, now in liquidation, aro being i investigate I. it lias been decided to I ;u'osei:iito Alexander Bruce, general y manager, John Shimmon, manager of ~ Uio head ollice, Cha los Kelson, direo- ,, r .or, Joseph Kogors, William Aldred, t . md Hat-old Aldred, auditors, on a , -iiai ge of having issued a false b&kncet sheet. The two ma< ogers and dino s tors named will also be prosecuted on . a charge «f embezzlement. The total J amount involved is j£500,000, « SroßEr, June 16. s 11.M.5. Europa takes 2000 tons of a New Zealand coal, specially imported, y for her return voyage, a The Celtic takes a shipment of Auap tralian produce for tlie American & squadron in China, e A hundred cases of apples are being '. forwarded for siek soldiers in/vfn - Africau hospitals. The fund&flre - collected by Madame Fi&schi, wit# o! t the Sydney doctor at the front. Other 1 shipments follow consigned to Majort General Hutton, ; Tbe massacre at New Britain is oonI firmed from German sources. Several ■ of tho victims were captured alive and ■ <'ragged to the scene of the feast, when they were clubbed and eaten. The . tribe are notorious man-eaters. Bhisbane, June Id. The Premier has announced that it I is intended to reintroduce the Electoral lieform Bill, and that it will probably i include the adult vote. Melbourne, June 16. The Earl Zetland had a cargo of oil. A hole was cut in tho deck to allow the inrushing waves to reach the fire. Perth, June 16. Parliament is prorogued till August The Federal League opened the Re • ferendum campaign with an tic gathering.

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