MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 264, 8 November 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, November 6. The Admiralty contemplates relying in future in competition between tbe \ great private firms to furnish designs for new battleship?. Tbe following are promotions among tbe officers of the Oph : r:- Commander Weroyss to be captain, I/eutenant Ruck'Keene to bt commander, SubLieutenant Bambrirjge Saurin to be lieutenant, Surgeon Hill to ftaff-sur-geon, Assistant Paymaster Qask to paymaster. Mr Matthew Whitin?, of Wordsworth Commons, has bequeathed £IO,OOO to each of the 12 London hospitals. Fog is general throughout England. Hundreds of vessels are weatherbound. Paris, November 6. M. Rousseau has introduced a Bill in the Chamber of Deputies devoting 5.000,000 francs to give miners entitled to a pension in pur-uance of tbe law passed in 1894, 300 francs per annum. New York. November 6. V»n Wyck, the retiring Mayor of New Y"rk, was defeated for a Supreme Court Judgeship. An official and others at Moceda, in the Philippire*, havn been arrested for plotting to murder the American garrison. Teheran, November 6. The Shah has declined Russia's offer of 1000 Cossacks as pilace guards. Received 7, 9.9 a.m. London, November 5, The Kennington Bink murderer has bs?n identified bs a railway freraan named Porter, The Westminster "\Jestry Works Committee justifies the inclusion of red gum in paving contracts, anJ asset ts that the ratepiyers' interests are being properly safeguarded.