MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 24, 21 October 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION? London, October 18. Lird George Hamilton in a letter to Mr J. G A. Baird, M.P. for Central GUseow, explaining the reason why the Indian Government placed a large order of locomotives in Gkrunauy, expressed the hope that British firms would extend their powers of-f>roduc-tion. A dtm in Hanover tendered 25 per cent, lower, and offered to deliver in half the time compared with tenders of British firms. Admiral De Horsey, in a letter to The l'imea, agrees with Admiral Loraine's statement that the British flag is good enough for the whole Empire. He adds that any other flag, no matter how emblematio, must be inferior, and that the Empire is also opposed to the absolute equality of flags desired by both the Motherland and the Commonwealth. Sofia, October 18. The American Consul, finding Miss Stone's captors were tools af the late Macedonian Committee, refuses to pay a ransom, and insists upon the Bulgarian Government arresting the instigators. The Turks have captured and beheaded Halin, a notorious brigand, one of the asea«Btns of the late M. Stambuloff, the Bulgarian statesman. Washington, October 18. A sensation has been caused in America through President Roosevelt inviting a negro president of the University of Tuskegee to dine with him. This is the first time a negro has dined at White House. Hauror, an Anarchist, editor of a New Hampshire paper, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for Czolgosz in shooting Mr McKinley. Vienna, October 18. The Pimier, Dr Von Kerber, stated in the Keichstrath that the German tariff endangered the ssfety of the Triple Alliance. Paris, October 18. The newspaper Dropeau states that General Combes, with 1100 men. had several fights with revolted natives on the Ivory coast, West Africa, in which ; 70 were killed and 200 wounded. Reinforcements are asked for. Received 20. 6.8 p.m. London, October 19. ' The Devonport Dockyard authorities have been instructed to build a battleship 425 feet in length, and of 16,500 tons displacement. The Papanui has landed 34.920 carcases in bright hard condition, but smelling objectionably. The mutton is selling at 2|d to 3d per lb. Sir A. L. Smith, Master of the Rolls, has resigned. Sir Richard Henn Collins, one of the Lords Justices, succeeds him, and Sir James C. Mathews, of the King's Bench Division, succeeds Sir Richard Collins.