MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 231, 11 October 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. - London, O tober 9. Colonel Bell, ex-American Consul at Sydney, addressing, the Chamber of '"ommerce, said the trade per capita showed Australiius to be among the wealthiest and most commas cial people in the world. Australia, considering its population, is the market in i.be glob', th-ra being prac'icallv no losses in businVs". Mr. Copeland, New Siouth Wales A«e..t-Gen"ra], recommended manufacturers to study the feelings, even the prejudices, of Australian importers. Mr. Grainger, Agent-Gene al for South Australia, complained cf contracts fir American beef being given by the Navy, while superior South Adelaide flour was declined for the Army in Sou*h Africa in favour of American. It is stated in official circles at Washington that Great Britain and America have adherrd to the underlying principles of the Chyton-Bulwer treaty. Great Britain has merely been relieved of the troublesome guarantee, which America now alone assumes; that tho Isthmian cansl shall be at all times neutral, and shall be open to all nations. The Times statEß that the Rupsians are proceeding rapidly to connect the Trans-Caspian railway with Meshed, A c cabad, and Kettechmar. A Russian | bank opens a branch at Meshed to assist in financing the work. Received 10, 620 pm. Sofia, October 9. Three thousand Bulgarian troops are trying to rescue Miss Ston». New York, October 9. Twelve thousand pounds towards the ransom of Miss Str.ne has been subscribed in America. London, October 9. LloycVa agency ia equipping a number of Marconi wirele-s telegraph stations throughou"; the world. Received IP, 10.12 p.m. London, October 9. A second trial between the Hyacinth and Minerva demonstrated the superiority of cylindrical boilers. St. Petersburg, October 9. A petition to 'he Czar, signed by half a million Fiulanders, protests against the edict compelling military service