MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

rtK FBXBB ABWOTATIOK. London, January 8. The Meand-class cruiser Venus, of 5600 tons, carrying 11 guns, will be commissioned for Australia on the 21st. M. Barnier, a Canadian, is in England raising .£IO,OOO, to complete .£300,000 required for a North Pole expedition. He intends to utilise wirelees telegraphy. Rfty-thwe fresh cases of smallpox were reported in London yesterday. Twenty-eigh f . deaths occured last week. A serious collision has occurred b«tween Russian so'diera and American Bailors belonging to the warship Vicksfourg, which is wintering at Niuchwang. In a sham fight at Cherbourg, be- •' tween two coast deffnce battleships and torpado boat destroyers against fi'ye submarines, all the submarines Wei's struck by torpedoe. Berlin, January 8. ffho speech from the throne at the opening of the Prussian Diet declared that it was determined to cultivate the German national spirit in Extern PramU witV firmness and cons'ancy. The maintenance in the States of the German element was a matter of selfpreservation. Bomb, January 8, The Pope nrges french Catholics to sflcept the Bepublic. H l * Holiness is/diep'eised that Monarchists disobeyed him, thus provoking the Religious Associations law. Washington, January 8. Colonel Roosevelt has agreed to review the Schley case. Beceived 10,1 a.m. London, January 9. At a Ivgely attended convention of the United Irish League in Dublin Mr. John Redmond appealed for the establishment of a permanent Parliamentary fund of £II,OOO a year. On Mr. J. Dillon's motion it was rtsolved that it is imperative to pass immediately a ■wide scheme for the compulsory tele of landlords' interests in Ireland to the ■occupiers, and to provide for the reinstatement of evicted tenants. An influential movement has been started to establish a British Academy of Historical Science. Bbrmh, January 9. Tha newspaper AUegemeine Zeitung States that Italy is mobilising 100,000 men with the object of occupying Tripoli. — r