MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 55, 25 February 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

j « I | PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, i London, February 23. j Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher has replaced Admiral Douglai on the of the Admiralty, the latter having i been appointed to the command of the North American and West Indian s'ations. Admiral Sir Compton Dom- , ville commands the Mediterranean Beet. j A Reuter message announces that • Russia has convinced America of the ! correct,of her indentions w : th re- ■ ga r d to Manchuria. I Lieutenant William OnlVek com- 1 mands the Antar ic re'ief ship Morning. Sir Clement Markham has appealed to the c'ty of London to af*ist in tho ships equipment, for whieh £2OOOO is required, The Prince of Wales has eubscribfld #SO, and the , Goldsmiths' Company £SOO. i Sir Frederick Lu°aH, High Commissioner f.ir Northern Nieera, is sending an expedition under Colonel Morland to d vnrt th» trade of Kano to the Niger, to ir quire'into the circum- ' stances which led to Fudlalbh, son of j Rabali, being killed by the French at B-irnu, Fadlallah in June l*i' year fl°d from French into British territory, I Received 25, o.?f> a m. i New York, February 24. i Prince Henry wns officially welcomed and then went aboard the I Hohenzollcrn. Twenty-five thousand persons were on the pier, and there was much cheering. Received 2S, 12 39 a.m. j Madrid, February 24. Most Republicans, the majority of Socia'ists, and many Trades Unions: ' coldly welcome the Barcelona emissaries J sent to crpanife a general strike in j Spanish towns. During the Barcelom riots 100 were killed, 300 injured, and 500 arrested. Cargoes are now being discharged at Barcelona, some fcctories are resuming. Eighty arrests were ' made at Tan-as. Order has been re--1 storfd at Zaragosa and < k=iwhere. j [ Many anarchis's were orrcs f pd. j THE PUGUE ! j PKB PRRfIS ASHOOIATIOK. I j Received 25, 0.50 a.m. Sydney, F. bruary 24. A woman named Campbell of Woolloomor>lo% also Silly Booh and Ada Lee, actresses 1 , are suffering from plague . at th« Criterion ] [''tel. Misses Church , and Gardiner, and Mrs Gardiner have 1 been discharged cured.