MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 19 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PKK PRESB ASSOCIATION. Londoh, Apvil 17. Mr William Waldorf Astor hag given £20,000 to endjw a professorship at University College, London. Nine counties in Ireland and the boroughs of Cork and Waterford, where the Irish League is active, have been proclaimed under the Crimes Act, The Yiatorian apples sent through the AgiicuUural D partment for exhibition were very disappointing and badly graded. Many were undersized and unfit for exhibition.

Ttm Bishop of P-terborough is conscious and progressing satisfactory. The Hague, April 17.

Q iefn Wilhelmina is coafiued to her bed. A bulletin state? that she is suffering geuernl illness with increased temperature. The newspapers allege that it is peritonitis.

Ottawa, April 17,

A movement is afoot, in Canada to instruct the CtnaHian delegates at the forthcoming liupeiial Conference in London to secure the exemption of colonial foodstuffs from Imperial taxation. Receivl 18,10.37 p.m. 'lhe Hauge, April 18. Qu en Wilhelmina is still feverish, and much anxiety is felt, though it is hoped the crisis is pss;pd, London, April 18.

In the House of Commons, Mr Rsdmond protested against the re-opplica-tion of the Crimes Act in Ireland. Mr Wyndham replied tha'; .Lu Executive was determined to grapple with boycotting, which is persistently increasing and filling the people with a brooding apprehension.

The Times states ihit th i new loan has already been subscribed fifteenFold, and is quoted at 15s premium.