MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 271, 16 November 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

* - PES PEES 3 ASSOCIATION. Received 15,11.12 p.m. • Paris, November 15. Admiral Caillaird's officers assert that the fleet left Toulon under instructions to take Mitylene peaceably or forcibly. These orders were countermanded before arriving at Mitylene. London November 15. Great Brit tin and- Turkey have Agreed upon the delimitation of frontiers of their spheres of influence at Yamen and Aden. New York, November 15. President* Roosevelt has assured the Chairman of the Civil Service Reform L- igue that ha intends to exclude all. politunl influence from the army and navy colonies. Received 15,11.26 p.m. I London, November 15, The London Corporation entertains the Prince and Princess of Wal s on December sth, in recognition of their [successful colonial mission. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh, said it was only possible to carry great measures if a tiuce of party warfare were arranged. He would like to see a Cabinet comprsed of business men of the type of St Thonns Lip'.on or Mr Andrew Carnegie. 1 Tbe gales are subsiding. It is known that 187 persons are drowned. Major-General Baden Powell has asked the N.S.W. Agent-General to thank the colonial donors fjr their splendid token of regard. , New York, November 15, i Professor Hahumann, of the Medical College at Chicago, claims that he has achieved much success by treating cancer with the Rontgen rays. Shanghai, November 15. A foot of snow has fallen at Pekin, and delays the Court's return. I Received 16, 0.20 a.m. London, November 15. I Count Wolff Mattemich succeeds Hatzfeldt as German Ambassador in England. * J Berlin, November 15. I The Government and hading busi-' ness men of S ixony hive he'd a conference at Halle re j p cting the great , distress existent in the Kingdom. Tbe Government was optimistic, while the business men considered tbe crisis very i serious, necessitating help for j the people. Paris, November 15. I The Chamber of Deputies, by 338 votes to 87, adopted a Bill introduced \ by M. Berteaux, a Radical Socialist Deputy, conceding a ten hours day to railway servan's and allowing them a : pension aft6r twenty years' service. I M. Oaillaux, Minister for Finance,! vainly protes'ed against thus saddling; the State with a of seventy! eight million francs y a-ly.