MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 26 October 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. London. Oc'ober 21. Advics from Sft. Pete-pburg announce that Oroa hug obtained ten i per cent, of its loan from a Japane«e tank with the stipulation that a por- j tiwn of the money shiH bn spent in rifles and guns with Japan. j Sir Sydenham Clarke, the new Go- c Turn or of Victoria, ("peaking a": a ' Chamber of Commerce dinner, recommended Great Britain to frame an Imperial defence scheme, and ark the j colonies to as'ist in fillire in the de- < tails. He suggested pelf-supporting j naval stations *s a hngis of the echem», ( and fores stationed a 1; various points ( of the Kmp're follv equipped. He < hoped Victoria would ba mad" self- J Bapporting in all requirements of war. j General F ench's appointment Is t unanimously acclaimed. Major Gen- < end Oliphan*: commands at Aldershot. ' until General Hildyard is ready 1 Twelve entered the Tyne j in a fog, and three were eeriou«ly in- 1 jur"d in a collision. < The Reorder at Folkstone qna'h'd ' the conviction of Pearlca for relli g , colonial butter containing 3 pe* cent. ( of boraric acid. 1 The Liverpool Shipowners' As'ocia- 1 tion bns asked Mr Chamberlain to request the Commonwealth not to legislate against British sbipring until the - shipowner* had an opportanity of ex pressing their views. St. Petersburg, October 24. The Rufshn mval estimates for 1902 pmrun* to 98 million roubles (about .£10,000,000). including 37 million# for building and armi"g warships. Washington, Oc'ober 24. I Owing t 1 the Southern denunciation of PremYeit Bo sevlt's en'ertainingof Mr. Booker, reero president of a TJnivprf itv, r umber" o f Northerners are inviting him to their honses. New York. October 24. Mr Pierpont Morgon has purcWe-i Raphael's Oolonna Madonna at an enormous price. Mr Duke, leader of the A morion Tobpcco Trust, declares that he is willing to lose X 1,000,000 in order to captu e the English trade. A firm of yacht builders in N w Tork has been authorised to sel' the Shamrock 11, at Sir Thomas Lipton's price. Received 25, 2.14 p.m Berlin, October 24. The liabilities of the Tieberkockner Omipany, of Orwell, who*e failure in -June Bast' led to the n"ep°rsion of the| Leipzig* Bank, total £868,700. The •creditors received 1 per cent. Their investment acoounts show millions of fictitious assets. The Leipziger Bank was deceived bv the 'ration of fa'S" dividend?, and lent the company four .millions sterling. Received 25.10.53 p.m. London, O tober 25, ■General Babing'oc is to be permitted to retain the local rank of Majir- ■ General. Owing to a mistake, a War Omie order, prin ed in readings f o summon ev*ry volunteer in the country, w«s pIRC-rdfd in two towns in England. The trawl*** Sainfc Bernard, of Hull, r hu been w-edwd at the Faroe Islands, "jger crew of twelve «ere drowned.