MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 14 February 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, February 12. Owing to adverse comments op -Mr See's charge, Mr Oopeland tans been informed by Mr Chamber! in that the !War Office for years charged New South Wales 5| per cent, on orders for military stores to cover department 1 expenses. I Three hundred boys at Eton are Buffering from influenza. I The first levee wss exceptionally brilliant, there being the largest attendance for years. There were num'Tous innovations. The King stood qnite alone; few kissed his hands, and there I no knfe'ing. Sixty-four deaths from emallp )x have occurred during the week. Fifty-eight were reported yesterday. The Times Washington correspondent says that the action of the Powers semi-officially attributed at Berlin to Lord Pauncefote emanated from M. Cimbon, who was French Minister at Washington at the time. The question was merely submitted by Pauncjfote as sunior diplomat. Lord CJranborne, in the House of Commons, sa : d Great Britain never propesed, through Lord Pauncefote or o'her wis •, a declaration! averse to America's intervention »i Cuba. On the contrary the Government [declined to assent co such a procsal.