MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 12 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PBB PKBBB ASSOCIATION. London, April 10. The Danish Landsthing has resolved not to sell the, Wtss Indies until a plebiscite of the islanders has stpprov&d the sale. There is a heivy decline in American beef fhipmen-a to England. The Rev. Price Hughes and Dr. Guiuess Rogers, editor of tha Independent, endorse Dr. Parker's militant policy on the Education Bill. The Times Odessa rcn BjponiWt says that a simultaneous niobilisation by Russia of the Black Sea and Baltic fleets in July has been arranged for, whi e there will be an unprecedented concourse of troops north of Odessa The movement is not without significance. Received 11,11.18 p.m. Ottawa, April 11. Hon. F. W. Borden, Minister for Defence, has proposed in the Dominion House of Commons to increase the militia to 100,000, largely by the establishment of rifle clubs, Received 11,11,40 p.m. London, April 11, An ultimatum states that Italy's diplomatic relations with Switzerland are ruptured owin? to the refusal of the latter to prise* use a> archist newspapers. Received 12,1 a.m. Losdon, April 11. The Standard publishes a rumour that Sir Michael Hicks- Beach will place an import duty of 5d per cwt. on flour, and 3d per cental on grain, without a drawback on exports. An impression exists in the City that it is passible there will be an iesu« of permanent debt stock, s mounting to forty million sterling.