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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 2, 3 January 1902, Page 3

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PKlt PRES|S ASSOCIATION. LokboN, January 1. The Government of Venezuela offe to meet German claims by payment i2OCO and the abandonment of t claim *o the captured vessel Banrig a which has been re-christened tl ® Liberfador and declared a pirate. ® is believed Germany, at the instance < America, has delayed delivery of a ® | ultimatum to Venezuela until tb Venezuelan rebellion is settled. . I Admiral Sir J. Oolomb has addreese a memorandum to Lord Selborne, Fire Lord of the Admiralty, in which h ' proposes that Canada and Australasi 3 provide naval reserve garrisons to ' Hong Kong and Weihaiwee. In th event of war he held that there is littl T fear of warships attacking coaliD, stations owiDg to the Scarcity of am 9 munition and the limited life of guns. 1 Received 2,10.32 p.m f London, January 2. i The death rate in London for th< 8 past year was 177 per 1000. Ottawa, January 2. * Canada's exports last year weri 1 valued at 196 million dollars, and iu 1 ports at 190 million dollars. i Received 2, 10.66 p to. i London, January 2. The fcbe United King- - dom last Sunday „ llected £65,000, > completing the full amount of the million Jubilee FUnd, > King Edward has conferred the Victorian Order on the Crown Prince of , Siam oq the occasion of his majority, i The executive c f the Foresters Order ■ unanimously Adopted a resolution against State aided old age pensions. The cablfe stbamer Scotia Las started i for JPerth, Wtstralia, to lay the remaini ing section of the Cape cable. Received 3,0.25 a.m. New York, January 2. A corrected Press cablo states that Venzuela has offered £2OOO and the value of tue cargo for the capture of the steamer Banrigb, which has been re-christened the Libortado. The steamer has been declared apiia'e. Received 3, 0.37 a.m Budapesth, January 2. K. von Szell, the Hungarian Premier ( while receiving's deputation of Liberals complained that Europe, a»d especially Germany, in pursuing a fiscal oomroe c'al policy, was tending to isolation. He added that on the 12th Decembe.-, the House of Representatives struck for an e'quitab'e settlement between Hungary and Austria, on the basis of a common f'u«toms tariff. A grave responsibility rested on the national parties of Austria for interposing irrevelant obstacles.