MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

run earns association.] | - London, January 3. ( The Daily Express advotes tbe granting of concessions in West Africa rr fu'.l recognition tf French rule in tli-j New Hebrides as a means of 1 -■ settling the French shore difficulty in■ * Newfoundland. I j The United Ir'sh League is arrang-1 ing to boycott tbe Xing and Queen's * liish visit. i The shipbuilding yards on tbe Clyde t are invited to tender for the construe- 1 r tion of two British battleships, each of 17,500 tons, most powerfully armed, as wfcll as five fust-class and two thirdc'ass cruisers. Some raonthß ago it was reported that England had suggfs' ed terms of i settlement of the Newfoundland fish-11 eries question to the French Govern- j ment. The Daily /express now states! I that the high officials of Newfoundland have no information about Great Britain's negotiations with France, and adds that Newfoundland's representations on the question to Mr Chamberlain remain ur altered. Calcutta, January 3, The Bengal Chamber of Commercehas appealed to Lord Ourzon protesting against Australian- interference with Asiatic labour beyond tbe limits of Australian juris 'i ;cion, T'ne appeal claims that th« Immig r.ti u Res notion Bill imperils the muests oi 70,000 Lascar seamen and firemen employed by the mail companies. Such a policy is retrograde and unwoitby of tho legislature of any British dominion, and the hope is expressed that the British Government will take steps to have the Bill amended. Deceived 5, 4.55 a.m. London, January 5. Count Ito attended a Mansion House banquet, and expressed profound satisfaction at the cordial relations existing between Britain »nd Japan. He was • confident that tbe focus of international '■ competition was steadily moving to-i [ wards the Pacific. Received 6, 0.50 a.m. ' New York, January 5. r The Panama Canal Company has 1 no'ifiid the Isthmian Canal Commie- ' sion of its willingness to sell its interests for forty million dollars.