MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 291, 10 December 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Drcember 8. Ten (f Major-G»nernl D-tniDg's column weie killed and 50 wounded while operating £, t ainst the Mahsudi, who recently attacked a survey party on the Indian frontier. The column infl'cted heavy losses on the Mahsudi. The Queensland Agent-General, in lan interview, emphasised the American Government's direct active promotion of trade. He aho said Great Britain ought to share with the OommoD wealth the emigration expense?, emigration being an Imperial question. Berlin, December 8, An unknown individual stabbed 80 men and women at Kiel. Washington, December 8. The Foreign Committee of the Senate has approved of the new HayPauciforte treaty in connection with the Isthmian canal. Received 9,10.57 p.m. London, December 9. Major-General Sir H. Chermside succeeds Viscount LamiDgton »s Governor of Queensland. The recently formed King's Colonial Corps has b.ea tub-divided into squadrons representing British Asia, America, Africa, and Australasia. Paris, December 9. The Senate has adopted the FrancoChinese loir, which will be issued on the 21st inst. Received 10, 0.27 a.m. London, December 9. The chief Austrian and Hungarian nobles, statesmen, ai d cle r gy are uniting in a protest against duelling. Ottawa, December 9. A landslip precipitated a locomotive and part of a goods train on the Cana-dian-Pacifio Railway 360 fe«t into fhe Eraser River, killing several persons. London, December 9. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, has intimated that Mr Barton is desirous of closer trade relations between Australia and Canada. I German newspapers show resentment towards President Roosevelt's advocacy of the Monroe doctrine. : In the United States House of Representatives, Mr Hepburn has intro-' duced a Bill for appropriating one hundred and eighty million dollars towards the cost of the Nicargu m canal. I A Sevier correspondent states that j Mr J. J. Gardner is introducing aj Bill in the House of Representatives ■ for the purchase of the Danish West' Indies by America for £BOO,OOO. A Fren/h. foice has traversed German territory and arrived at Goudj», in the British Nigerian hinterland, and deposed the Emir and appointed a substitute. ■ : i