MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 52, 17 February 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

FKB PREBB ABWKJTATION.

! Parts, February 14. Thr*>e Adelaide residents, who were truvelling in the night express from Pari* to Marseilles, were chlo oformed and robbed by two thieves,' who escaped. New York, February 14. A Kentucky sheriff with a pos-o of i forty mfcn, while trying to seizi a s'loon-keeper's property, fought the! owner and twenty-two mountaineers' sympathisers. Two of the posse end j seven of the mountaineers were killed | and the saloon was burned. J Ottawa, February 14. | Lord Minte has announced that a direct line of steamers will be established with South Africa to assist Canadian commerce. Paris, February 14. i M. Santos Dumont, the aeronaut, is | experimenting in aerial navigation at, Monaco. While making his fifth as- j cent th« pas escaped, and the h ll ion fell into tha tea and sank. Dumont 1 was rescued. > London, February 14. | In connexion wi'h the army meat i contracts, the newspaper Truth ie- f dare* that, Bezel's Australian interests i are a myth, and asserts that he is sim- J ply a middleman to Houlder B-ob,, the' Federal Steam Navigation Company, I and Di Beers Consolidated Mines! Company. i Received 16,4.63 p.m. I i . Bed lin, February 15. ' ! The Reichstag's oommitten, by a majority of 28 votes, has decided that the new tariff shall be enforced not later than January ,Ist, 1905, I New York, February 15. ' The New York Herald states that Prince Henry h»s sort a Utter to Admiral Dewey which admits that Germans, during the Manila hlccksd', cimmittpd an error, and that Admiral Dewey was right on that ore si on; and acted in the bes* 1 . Wav throughout.. The Jettrr is intended for Americans, in 'order to remove unpleasant racollec-j . tions of the incident.

Received 16, 5.4 p.m. ! London, February 15. . Mr. Archibald J. S. Milman, 0.8., I Olerk of the House of Commons, who r»tired last week, died suddenly in hia el»ep. Received 17, lam. London, February 16. T'ne War Office is purchasing largely New Zealand meadow bay for South Africa. Berlin, February 16. Prince Henry if Prussia. »b->»rd the North German liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm. has faiUd from Bremerhaveu for I Amer'c->.