MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 92, 22 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

rax p£em hsooiahok. LonboS, April SO. Th« Orient Steamship Company's profit for the year is .£57,601. A dividend of 10 per cent, will ba paid, £25,000 carried to the reserve, and X 10,845 carried forward.

J. Pierpost Morgan's Company declares that American interests dominate tbe shipping amalgamation, which makes the States the real rulers of the mercantile marige. Mr Pierpont Morgan is syndicate manager, j The ri«w yacht Meteor, built in America for th« Kaiser, has arrived at Southampton after a perilous voyage. Her decks were uader water for fourteen day 8. The Marquis of Downshire has secured a divorce from his wife on the ground of her adultsry with Captain Joseph Laycock. | 'lhe Hague, April 20. Queen Wilhelmin's diseaso is normal. Her straDgth is diminishing. Washington, April 20.

The House of Representatives by a large maj.uity amended the Governmeut's Cuban E.liet Bill by abolishing the differential duty en refined sugar. New York, April 20.

Tbe Beef Trust is trying to r.' -ner eggs and other food stuffs. ; Forty-five millions of eggs are stored in New Jersey.

Brussels, April 20.

The Socialisms' campaign is fizzling out, and the belief is expressed that there will be a general resumption of work immediately.

Received 21,10.52 p m. Under the patronag« of the Colonial and War Offices a Colonial Troops Club is being organised in London. A paraffin lamp fired a shop in Hackney. Two children were saved, but the mother perished, with her remaining four children ami two adults.

Received 21,10.57 p.m. New York, April 21. An explosion d s i-ov*fl the "arrays at Managua, in N ; ca<agua, killing 150 pet'toiM. The d*d u.trib'.ued to the Conte' vative opponents of President Zelaya.

Advices received from Olmsted report th-.s Ming's packet boat, City <f Pittsburgh, w»i burnt. Fifty passengers are Kissing.