MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 274, 21 November 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PXB FBESSS ASSOCIATION. London, November 19. Four hundred and ten cases of small- ■ pox are reported ia London. A .striking article appears in the I Times dealing with the present crisis lin British industry. It reveals the ex- 1 tent to which the Trades Unions I have captured the London County Council and School Board, involving : great waste to the ratepayers in main- ! taining idle workmen. I Mr Redmond, .speaking at New | York, urged the electors of Galway to return Lynch, whom be designates a " soldier of freedom." Berlin, November 19. The German Antarctic expedition is six weeks overdue at Capetown. The ! delay is probab'y due to the work of making deep-sea soundings in the South Atlantic. Buda Pesth, November 19. Coloman De Czell, Hungarian Miaister of the Interior, declared in the Diet that the Triple Alliance is the best poasible guarantee affording the j maximum security of peace, and that Great Britain, although owing to tra- . ditions she bad not joined, was able to lean towards it. At the same time Austria and Hungary were able to act | in concert with Russia over the Bal- , kans. I Washington, November 19. Lord Pauocefote and Mr Hay have I signed the Nicaraguan treaty. Received 21,1.8 a.m. London, November 20. Influential meatinga of Churchmen are being held for the purpose of promoting a fund to obtain a new vessel for the Melanesian Mission. Received 21,1.12 a.m. London, November 20. The New Zealand loan of £1,500,000, at 3 per cent., with a fixed price of 94, is underwritten one per cent,, and will be issued on Friday. Old stocks are quoted at 95. Received 21,1.19 a.m. . ! London. November 20. The Orange Colony's revenue excoed's the expenses of administration. The Prince of Wales has been elected president of tbe Imperial Institute. The Customs authorities in London have detained a steamer containing four cannon, charcoal, saltpetre, and searchlight apparatus. The vessel intended going to Hamburg, sailing thence under sealed order?. She had ample accommodation for passengers. Rome, November 20. A fire has destroyed the Sanfeird Arena sugar factory, the largest in Italy. Washington, November 20. Americans generally favour the Panama Canal. French newspapers expteas the opinion that the Nicaragua scheme was recomn a ndel with a view of lessening the i'-.aama. Company's price.