MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 55, 20 February 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

ran PBSSS ASSOCIATION. Beceired 19, 10.39 p.m. N«w Yobk, February 19. Admiral Dswey has gone to Flo<ida to Avoid the reception to Prince Henry of Prussia. No leading naval officer I who was connected with the Manila . engagement attends the reception, I Received 19,10.45 p.m. i London, February 19. I Mr) Montague Nelson considnrs the i meat contract fairly good. Th»re is i every reason t 0 hope the bulk of the meat supplied will be Australian. His nff«r to supply «t |d ppr p und above \ cos'' was not entertained. , A deputation representing 500 Welsh «ettlrrs in Pa'aeoni* has appealed to Mr Chamberlain to provide a transport to Canada, whore the Go v«rncnent is willins to supplv la-d and facilities for seVlempu* Mr Chamberlain regretted the appli ation. He had been led to brieve the Welshmen , desired *o settle in the colonies in , South Africa, where land, with assistance to stock farms, was available. The British Government bad long ' discontinued arsistiog emigrants to self-governing colonies. He suggested a fresh appeal to the Canadian Premier or to the liberality of the British public. The House of Lords, by 57 to 26, rejected Lord Avebury's Early Closing of Shops Bill. Paris, February 19. Ernest Toy, travelling in the ParisNice express on Monday n ; ght, was robbed of everything and thrown on to the line after a desperate struggle. On recovering his seDSfs he boarded a Toulon train. Received 20,0.26 a.m. London, February 19. Mr J. C. Wagon, M.P. for Orkney and Shetland, publishes a letter in the Times complaining that owing to cheaper land taxes and wages in Argeotin", the clonics ar« no more able to compete in point of price in the meat contracts than can English gardooers with Chinamen. Yet the quality of colonial meat is superior. Eng'isb companies and firms interested in Westralia, representing a capital of throe millions, have requested Mr Lefroy, Westralian Ag«nt-General, to present a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament sta'inp that the Federal tariff threaten* *b nipastrously affect industrial development, especially in Westr»)ia, and to 1 inflict grave inju<tice on British i investors. The petition asks for a re- • consideration of the matter ; also that > increased import duties be made appli- - cable in contracts and engagements prior to the operative date of the tariff.