MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 14, 17 January 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

JPEB PBSBS ASSOCIATION Lohdow, January 15. The Trade* TJnien Co-operative Conference, at the Memorial Hall, London, resolved that a tvational scheme of old age pensions on direct contribution is unworkable. It mnst bei universal, not discriminating befcwe?n the ( needy and the affluent. Inquiries re- 1 garding individual character would reduce it to the level oF chari'y. -.. ■ King Edward has adopted the bisbop of Canterbury's niggeuti i;i 'hat the Archbishop of Yo>k should crown Queen Alexandra. Prince Henry of Prussia represents the Kaisyx at the coronation. Mr Whitelaw Rfeid represents America; while the kmericin army and navy will be pp r cia!lly reprp- ■ sented. Sir Wilfrid Liurier, jOarp.dian Premier, attends, and Hnnk W. S. Fielding, W. Paterson, and W. Mulock, members of the Ministry, accompany him. i Eeuters Berlin cirrespondent sta'es -that the Prince of Wales will be the TTniaar'a private guest. Thfl Visit is of * purely personal and familjr nature, .tin the Prince does not any -invitations. Sir Frank, Lasoelles B'i'ish Minister in Berlin, at the New Year asked if a visit c n his birthday would be agreeable to the Kaiser, who replied: " Agreeable is not the word. I -hall be deliphtt d." M. DeWitte, Russian Minister for Finance, reports a satisfactory bvMget. He is confident of the continued expansion of the productive power of the country under the protection of the unalterable love for peaos. Receive«l6, 10.47 pm. | Beblin, J'-nuai-y 16. Prince H. nry latds at New (Yo rk on February 22nd. j Ottawa, January 16; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Premier, in heartily reciprocajting tbe Cape Premier's New Year greetings similar to ihowemt to «- -rteses t> e hope that tlus yean will see the re-esubliebmentof peace, biarmony, and good feeling among all elasst* in « 9 Htb Africa. j

Paris, January 16. _ The French torpedo boat Bourrasque did 31| kno's an hour on her speed tfitls. Received 17, 0.24 a.m. London, January 16. i Frederick Pegrsm, the well-known artis*, (.as bteu commissioned to execute a bug!; of Sir John McKenzie, for the New Zealand Parliamentary Library. Received 17, 0.28 a.m. London, January 16. The Trades Union Co-operative Uocfeience has recommended Imperial taxation as the sole source of old age pei.sioos, and lecommenda payment of five shillings per week to every citizen aged sixty. Vienna, January 16. An explosion caused a rush of water in the Jupiter mine at Breux, in Bohemia. Seventy miners escaped, but forty were drowned in the lower workings.