CABLE BREVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 69, 14 March 1902, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

During a thunderstorm at Midgee (N.tf.W.) a man named Deale and his son wera struck by lightning. The latter was killed instantly and thefather is Wind and paralysed and his recovery is doubtful.

The Lieutenant-Governor, the Mayor and leading citizens lunch-d aboard Mie Arglia at Brisbane on Tuesday to' mark tin commeticemtnt of the first Sfctionof the Pacific cabla, M. de Witte, Ru-sian Minister for Finance, has assured Mr Horner, M.P. that Russi-i defied a good understanding with England, add if asked would probibly countersign the AngloJapanese treaty, Russia had recently stopped building a railway 309 miks short of tha Indian frontier in order to avoid creating the idea that she is menacing India. The Ambulance Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board assert that smallpox will continue throughout the next winter-, perhaps with increased activity. Signor Giolitti, Italian Ministar for the Interior, has Ssfetled the throttened strike of railway men hy promising the payment of the sum demanded by instalment spread over three years. Mr Gilbert Parker, in a letter to the Times, doubts the financial success of the Colonial Remount Depots during peace, and advocates an experiment of the colonies and the Motherland cooperating in naval and military defence with common financial responsibilities. He suggests recruiting stations in the colonies for tho Imperial forces serving in the colonies and on active foreign service,