MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 258, 1 November 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

<9 PEK TBE3S A6BOOIATI"N London, 0 tober 30. The Times coireaponi( n"> says thft j Turkish Ambassador at S . Petersburg report the mnexation of Crete by Greece is imminent, and inevitable. Paris, October 30. The Fiench dockers' proposal to boycott British commerce with a view to compelling the termination of the war was a fiasco, the dockers at Antwerp and Hamburg and the merchants of Holland refusing to co-operate. The French loan issued on the security of the Chinese indemnity covers the cost of the China expedition, and enables three million sterling to be i paid to French merchants and missionaries who were victims of the , Boxers. St. Petersburg, October 30. The chief embezzler in tbe NizniNovgorod frauds has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in a f-.rtrese. New York, October 30. M. Milleraud, Minister of Commerce, introduced a Bill withdrawing ' tbe bounties to sailing vessels in favour of a steamers' bounty for French-built, boats of 277 francs a ton and on foreign built smaller. Mr Cleveland, tbe leader of tbe companies outside Pierpoint Morgan's Steel - Corporation, is favouring a two billion dollar trust with Frick, Mr Andrew Carnegie's former partner, as president < of the new trust. I ■ I