MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 191, 24 August 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, August 22. Reuters correspondent says the conduct of the students the Cipetowfi graduation in corui.ction wi'li the Duke of Cornwall's visit was decorous and in strik : ng contrast to the uproarious bahaviour of the undergraduates at Melbourne and Sydney. Colonel Morlund, commandant of tbe Northern Nigeria forces, is proceeding I with a strong force to Yo'n, 500 miles from Lokoja, to punish the slave raiding Emir If Adamama, in Central! Africa. Berlin, August 22, The whole of the German presi' is indignant at the condemnation of Martin on charges of mutiny and murder on what is described as the flimsiest evidence. The papers declare that unless the conviction is qaashed it will be a gross miscarriage of justice. The prosecutor merely insisted on a case of manslaughter.

The Kaiser has presented King Edward with a magnificent epergne, the Kaiser's own desigD, which is the most elaborate produced since the 18th century.

Paris, August 22, An army of 125,000 troops participate in the Rheims review. Tokio, August 22. Thve is growing indignation in Japan owing to the insulting discrimination of Hawaiian medical inspectors against Japanese ladies travelling in steamships. Received 23, 9.40 p.m. Capetown, August 23. Tbe Duke of Cornwall laid the buttress stone of the new cathedral here, and tbe Duchess the corner stone of tbe Queen Victoria Nurs°s Home. The Royalties exchanged farewell messages with Lord Kitchener. Received 24. 0.30 a.m. . Hong Kono, August 23. A flood breached both banks of the Tellow river, causing immense destruction. Paris, August 23. Tbe Ozar and Czaritza spend five days in France.

London, August 23. The Times there is a more hopeful feeling of trade prospects. The shrinkage in general business during 1901 will be small. . Wool is slightly recovering. Received 23. 0.56 a.m. London, August 23. A petition for the release of Earl Rureell has been rejected. The syndicate which is constructing a pier at Berehaven for the accommodation of the new fnst line of Atlantic steamers proposes to use oil fuel to run the verse's at a rate of 24 knots an hour. Dover has brea offered as a Dorti of call between Berehaven and Germany.