MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 10 August 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PEB PEEBS ASSOCIATION. , London, August 8. The East India Dock Company has iucre'sed the due«, which are exrected to yield an additional £90,000 per annum. The application is equally ap-1 plicble to part of cargo lates. | Tbe Daily Chronicle understands tbe Governorship of the State of Victoria will be offered to Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a distinguished nrlitaty po'itical officer, at present occupying the position of Superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department. Vienna, August 8. Three attempts have been made in two mom hs to explode the- powder magazine in Vienna. The sentiies shot and killed a man whe crrpt to within ten yards cf the magazine. Paeis, Augus' 8 M, Duoiort's navigable balloon wpg sailing from St. Cloud round the Eiffel ! Tower when a grea l ; wind struck and wrecked it. M. Dumont narrowly escaped. Berlin, Au?ust 8. Count WalJersfe bae arrived at Cuxhaveo. Bombay, August 8. Another disfcurbanre on the Afghan hill frontier has oecured. Two hundred Mahsuds rushed a post held by 30 Wsx'rastin militia in the Gomai Pats, Suhiman Mountains. Four of the militia were killed and four wounded The Mabsut's looted everything found on the post. Received 9.10.31 p.m. j London, August 9. Mr. Balfour has formally dropped the King's Declaration Bill, owing to objections by Catholics and others. I Received 10,0.14 a.m. , London, August 9. \ The White S'ar liner Oceana collided with and sack the steamer Kinccra during a fog in the Irish Channel: Seven of three aboard tbe Kincora were drowned. The steamer Anglia leaves London oa Saturday to hy the Mauri'ius-Cocos section of tbe Cape cable, and the Scotia next week to lay the Occos-Fre-mantle section, to be completed in October. Beceived 10,0.24 aim. London, August, 9. The Comwlls lave suhd fiom Mauritus for Durb>u.