MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 59, 1 March 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PEK PRESS V6SOCIATION. London, February 26. A stallion, at the Agricultural Hall, knocked down the owoer, and the challenge cup out of his hand just when the Princess of Wales presented it, Another stallion nearly tramplad on the Prince and Princess.

The Daily Mail says there wfs a great crush at thelaurchof tbe Meteor. After lunch there wi a terrific rush for souvenirs, the err kery and knives and forks being loo'ed. New Yot k, February 27. Prince Henry wes the guest of Mr. Pierpont Morgan and a hundred millionaires at a luncheon. The St-ats Zeitung entertained 1200 journalists at a banquet to meet the Prince. Prince Henry stated that the Kaiser directed him to remember that American pressmen ranked almost with hie generals.

London, February 27. Eal Dsnbigh has been appointed the King's special envoy to the Pope's jubilee. Harold Apted, aged 20, has been sentencf d to death for the murder of « little girl named O'Bourke near Tunbridge, London, February 28. The King attended the Horse Show at tbe Agricultural Hal); Berel interviewed stated he invited offers for A list-Mian shipments in March, Apiil, May, but received no replies. It i;ovv devolves on Australia to show she is able to fulfil the contract. The King's Bench quashed the conviction of Peatks for selling milk blended with butter containing twenty-four p<>r cent of water, on tbe ground that the wrapper notice, exhibited, showed sufficient intimation that the butter was blended.

Tbe War Office is inviting tenders by March sth for two million p mnds of preserved meat, and is willing to consider offers of direct, shipments from Außtrilia to South Africa.