MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 2 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

* FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 31. The British revenue for March quarter totalled .£48,342,000; customs contributing .£9.916,000, excise ,£9,082,000 stamps £2,080,000. The property and income t<x for the yeir yielded £3,484,000. A Yellow Book, dealing with the recent trouble between France and Turkey shows that France threatened to retain the island of Mitylene unless Turkey yielded. Russia supported France throughout. The Aborigines Prot«" , t : '*n Association has memoiiolised Lord Lansdowne 'o unire with other powers in calling the Congo Free State to account for inhuman treatment of natives. The Macedonians residing in Athens are petitioning the Powers to intervene, to prevent the Bulgarians creating a' rocities in Macedonia. Colonel Grimm has been sentenced to imprisonment, for life in an under groutid dungeon at Schluesselburg, for selling Russian plarjs to Germany. A photograph found amongst Cobne' Grimm's pspers pr >ved to ho the portrait of a widow living a* Charkow, who acted as intermediary, often travelling abroad to allow the documents to be photogr.iphed and restoring the originals in four days. The Times of India states that residents at Bandar Abbas, on the Persian Gulf, assert that *he Russian steamer Korniloff landed 60,000 ride*. Rome, M«rch 31. Four hundred soldies belonging to the Riilway Reserves mutinied and paraded Milan shouting " We won't go to Tripoli." They w» re arrested. It is believed the soldiers were instigated to revolt. Received 1, 9.45 p.m. London, April 1. Lord Roberts has dir cfd senior officers to see that Colonials commissioned to regiments in the regular Army are cordially treated. Received 2,0.1S a.m. London, April 1. A sensation has been caused in Cairo, owing to a rich landowner torturing some peisants to compel confession of theft of a bull from the Kbedival estate. The landowner has been imprisoned in connection with the case. The District Governor is implicated, and has been suspended. After the Coronation review, the combined fleet will undertake maneuvers. Later the Channel and cruiser squadrons join the Mediterranean fleet, making 100 vessels and engaging in a seiits of maiceuyres extending from i Malta to the Gulf of Nauplin, in ; Grteno.

fhe newsraper3 eulogise the late Sir Andrew Clarke's versatility ar.d tireless energy. The Daily Telegraph gays he was one of the found-m of the Australian democracy. The Times says fow of his contempqr&ries can show such a record of public service. Berlin, April 1. Obituary: Dr Lieber, leader of the Centre tarfy in the Reichstag. Received 2. 0.23 a.m. Losdon, April 1. King Edward has offered a £IOO cup for au international yacht race to be organised in connection with the forthcoming Cork ExH v >it,i n. It is expecttd the Meteor, Columbia, and Shamrock 11. will cou pete. New York, April 1. Some friction exists between President Roosevelt and General Miles. Tii« iatttr declares iho Government is ti'jiag to dt-prive him of bis command in tr.c army.