MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 7, 9 January 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PBB PltmS ASSOOIATIOX. loxdoNj January 7. Bit 1 Charles Dilke,, in an interview, stated that he was convinced the statement that France would get tne New Hebrides fur withdrawing from Newfoundland was untrue. The Newfoucdlacd negotiations had long been suspended. Fifty-six fresh cases of smallpox were reported in London yesterday. There are now upwards of 800 patients under treatment, and additional acoommod&tioa is being rapidly built. In a collision off Oape Finisterre, the steamer Allona waß wrecked, and the crew of eight Liverpool men were drowned. X. \ Yobk, January 7. The Mayo. York, in a message to the of Aldermen, appeals for the co-operation of the people to crush blackmailing, which is unnecessary for securing justice and averting barm. Chili concedes Argentine's claim to police Ultima Esperanza. , Received 9, 0.27 a m. London, January 7. Lord Kitchener declines to assume the position of Commander-in-Chief in India till the finish of the war in South Africa. Received 9, 0.31 a.m. Paris, January 7. Plains of the French ironclad Henry IV., have disappeared. London, January 7. A Children® Empire League is being formed, influential!)' bucked, to enable colonial children in L -ndrn to view the Coronation The A g nts General are supporting the movemen*. Sir Robert Giffen, ex-Conoptroller-Geoeral of the Statistical Department, and a well known writer on financial matters, in a letter to the Times anticipates a deficiency in the rtvet ue of ten millions, aud increased taxation. Lord George Hamilton declares the letter in reference -to German millowners and i ail way tenders, which was published by the Daily Express, to be a fabrication. Obituary.—M. Jean de Blocb, author of " The War of the Future." Received 9.1.15. a m. Beblin, January 8. Count Wolff Materinch, the recently appoin'ed German Minister in England, at a banquet at Hamburg ridiculed those extravagant spirits who believed the maintenance of the traditional relations between Germany and Bri'ain unnecessary. Ottawa, January 8. The Canadian postal revenue has recovered the loss caused by the adoption of penny poßt ige. New Yokk, January 8. The prpulation of the United S'ctes and dependencies tota's 84,233,069.