MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 5, 7 January 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, January 5. Lord S'rathcona has given .£25,000 towards the extension of the Aberdeen University. Renter's Agency states that Sir Sflndford Bloming, in a letter to Mr Mullock, Canadian Postmaster-Gen-eral, advocates a State-owned Atlantic cable and land lines through Canada or the Marconi wir'p'ess system. He estima' es the revenue of the cable, at; a penny a word rate, at £40,000, and the cost at £330,000. The Admiralty is making tes's of oil fuel on two hattleshipi and a cruiser belonging, to the Channel Squadron. The Queen sent a Christmas gift and a sympathetic letter to the Salvation Army poor. Lord Salisbury, replying to. a communicition from the Protestant Alliance, stated that be did not intend to legislative against the alleged Jesuit invasion of England. Paris, January 5. The French subsidy to New Caledonia has been reduced from 660,000 to 500,000 francs. : Berlin, January 5. I Sergeant-Major Fischer baa b9en J sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude at Mannheim, Germany, for' selling a mobilisation plan to a French' spy. I Madrid, January 5. i Several thousand s'rikers at Bar- j celona were storming the factories. ' The guardians frequently charged the rioters, and eavalrv restored order, j Received 6,11.36 p.m. | London, January 6. j The Argentine Press accuses Chili of underhand negotiations, and declares that the Government intends to suspend diplomatic relations and has ordered tbe-fleet, and ermy to mobilise. Received 7, 0.27 a.m. Lisbon, January.- 6. A military revolt h*s occurred at Torresnovus. Soldirrß plundered the town, killing Reveral pers'» s Troops from Lisbon have bren sent to quell the disturbance. Fofia, January 6. Political affiirs in Bulgaria are in an excited state. M. Daneff, Minister for Foreign Affors, is retiring from the Ministry, and ha« formed a strongly

EuFSonhile Cabinet. After a cricis exte>" Hns" over eleven days the Sobrarje dissolved, after refusing supplies.