MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 296, 14 December 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

——« PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, December 12, Twenty-four torpedo boat destroyers are having their hulls strengthened at Devon port. This is in consequence of the recent inishap. A gale is raging in the English Channel and numbers of vessels are in A Belgian fishing boat foundered and her crew of fourteen were drowned. Congo Free State official?, while searching for deserters, attacked the natives cd the French bank on the Übanghi river. Thirteen natives were killed and wounded and many made prisoners. In September a French' force drove Fadelallah, son of the late Sulotu Rabah, to Fika, in British Central African territory. Fadelal'ah's force recently wont towards Lake Tchad in search of food. The Freneh column killed him and shattered the power of the descendants of R&bab. The British allege that the recent encounter, which resulted in the French deposing EmirGoudge in the Nigerian hinterland, took place within the British sphere. Received 14, 0.58 a.m. London, December 13. Extraordinary interest is being displayed in the speech to be delivered by Lord Rosebery at Chester fie'd on Monday next, defining his political position. Fifteen thousand applications, from all parts of the United Kingdom, have been received for twelve hundred seats, A vio'ent blizzard in the north his disorganisfd tbo railway and telegraphic services, almost isolating Scotland and Ireland telegraphically. Tbe snowftll is the heaviest for years, A train on the Midland railway is snowbound.