MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 288, 6 December 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, London, December 4. A Renter message states that half a million men are out of work in Germany.

| Tue Druce case, in which a claim is made to the Earldom of Portland, is proceeding. Witnesses testify that they were well acquainted with T. 0. Druce, and were present at his death and inclosure in the coffin. A verdict was given against Mrs. Druce, the jury finding that Druce died in 1864, and that his will, with codicil, was duly elected.

There are 438 known cises of smallpox in London, and 137 deaths since August 3rd. John Aiken and John Roberts, bookmakers, Liverpool, have been arrested as accessories of Gou ie.

The destroyer Salmon did not sink, but was towed to Uarwick harbour and beached. The ste»mer Cambridge's bow craahf 1 into t>e stokehole wrecking the boilers. Tne escaping steam imprisoned four stokers. A sailor gallantly rescued two through the manhole.

New York, December 4. , Boss Oroker has announced bis early ratirament from Tammany Hall. The Hague, December 4. Queen Wilhelmina has completely recovered from her recent illness. Received 6, 0.35 a.m. New York, December 5. Philippine goods are to bo admitted to America duty free.

Berlin, December 5

Students at Warsaw destroyed the escutcheon over the German Consulate, and stoned offices of (he Corsul ic that department. Students at Limberg a'so made an anti-Gairnan demonstration.

Received 6, 0.44 a.m. [ Paris, December 5. Owing to a mistake by mechanists in the Varieties Theatre in Paris, eight artists, while rehearsing, fell an unsupported scenic staircase. 'Several fractured their ankles.