MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 64, 8 March 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

—, +. PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 7,4.38 p.m. Bbblin, March 6. A sensation has been created in Ger- | many and Holland over Professor Von jHalle's litest boob, in which he foreshadows the absorption cf Holland by Germany, first economically and then I politically. He denounces Holland's | obstructionist commercial policy st the mouth of the Rhine, as being detrimental t> th« intt rests of the Hinterland, aud furtherdi clares that Eoglnnd and Aroeuca are the traditional enemies of Hoi end, while Germany is her natural ally and protecto;', Constantinople, March 6. Osman Pasha, son of a Kurdish chief, sentenced to death for Treason, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. Nazmi P-isha, son of a former Grand Vizier, Ali, has been arrested in connection with the disaffection at Constantinople. Received 1 1.5 a.m. London, March 7. In the House of Lords, the Government oegativd by a majority of 79, Lord Oarrington's motion for a return of all contracts for wines and spirits supplied to the trsops in Sou'h Africa. Lord Rosebery did not participate in the division, Canada, Australia and T-VTa are not included in the sugar convention, but are able to join on application. The signatory Powers agree to lew countervailing duties on all bounty fed sugars arid to prohibit import. Bishop Trigwell, whose diocese includes West Equatorial Africa, after visiting Kanem declares that British influence will soon be supreme up to Lake Tcad. The Bslgic-Ameriran liner Waesland collided with the Houston liner Harmomides off Holyhead. The Wa<s'and srtiik aft.r 200 of the pistengers and crew had been rescued. Berlin, March 7. The Kaiser has recalled the cruiser Kaiserin Augusta and two torpedo destroyers from China.