MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 20 March 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 18. The British columns haco occupied Akwete, in S"uth E<stem Nigeria, after s»vero fighting. 'l'hie, makes a successful completion to the campaign against the Aro tribes, 'he most, trucuj lent and fana'ical chiefs of which have be r -n captui ed. The tally Telegraph states that R*fsia'a forward policy in the Far East has bean abandoned in accordance with M. de Witte's financial policy. F.'r thafiist time for eight-en years IRussh has placed a loin in Germany, amounting to £10,250,000. The r<moval of a smallpox patient at Duntrune, Fo fers'uire, w«s ctoutly resisted. Fifty contacts fought t.ie police to prevv t th ii' own n moval and escaped urn ip u«d. St. Petersburg, March 18. A workmen's and students' demonstration at N vsky P osptct, St Peterswas suppressed. Several persons were killed and many injured. Hunch eds were arrested.

Ottawa, Mnrc'i 18Mr Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finar.ce, d' livered his Budget, spefch. He es'iuiated » su plus of 5,750,000d0 s. and announced fhit there would bs no tariff changes. New Yobk, March 18. The Nes* York-Naw haven railway strike has been sottled. Received 19, 9 50 p.m. London, March 19. The Kaiser welcomed Prince Henry on his nrrival at Cazbaven.

A Portuguese gunbo't captured twelve dhows at Mozambique, killing 50 slavers and liberating 700 slave o . Harold Anted, who murdered a girl named Crouke a* Trowbridge, has been hartnd.

It is rumoured that Lord Laminaton, ex-Governor of Queensland, 'succeeds Sir J. West Ridgeway as Governor of Ceylon. Mrs Russell, otherwise known as Bessie Rignold, has been divorced from h*r husband on the ground of adultery with Edmond Gurney, an ac*or. Mrs Ru«8»ll is a daughter of "William Rignold, and Ru=sell (whose stage name is Guyton Heath) is a New Zealander. Both are well known in Australian theatrical circles. Received 19,10.K0 p.m.

London, March 19.

After a slight reaction for worse, Mr Cecil Rhodes slept and then slightly rallied. He hns received t°lesrams of inquirv from the Kins and Queen, and Lords Kitchener and Risebery. Received 20.1.3 a.m. 1 Vienna, Mirch 19. The pan-Gei'm«nic group created an uproar in the Austrian Roichsrath, fav»r»l members shouting "Hurrahfor the Hoberzollerns."