MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 48, 12 February 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

FIB PRBSS ASSOCIATION. London, February 10. Cardinal Richard has interdicted Jesuits from preaching at Paris. France compulsorily buys out an English syndicate concerned in the Ethiopian Railway Freezing Company from English influence. Colonel Picquart, in an article jn the Grande jßmte, declares that England would be a far more valuable ally for Franca than Germany. The Allan liner Grecian got wedged between rocks near Halifax during a •now storai. l'he Oonrt held that objectors had no right to interpose in the matter of Canon Gore's confirmation. Prinoe Victor Napoleon, in an open letter to General Thomassin, in view of the elections, indicates the Royalist programme. He promises to retire if France would prefer another to preside over the work of regeneration. It is believed be refers to his younger brother, Prince Louis, who is known to be mora popular on personal grounds with the Bonapartists. Received 11,11 p.m. London, February 11. It is semi-officially stated at Berlin that on Lord PauncefoW initiative the Ambassadors at Washington on April 14th, 1898, recommended a collective note being K _ nt disapproving of America's intervention in Cuba. A Ueuter's despatch asserts that the North German Gazette— a semi-official paper—attributed the irritation in Government circles to America's sceptism concerning recent statements. It is believed in political circles at Berlin that Lord Pauncefote took borne such step, although in nowise acting against American interests. Other advices indicate that the step was taken with the late President Mckinley's assent in order to test the feeling of the Powers. It is announced at Washington that I President Rooseveldt'g eon is suffering from pneumonii, and that his condition causes alarm. Unless an early improvement takes place Prince Henry will probably defer his visit.