MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 103, 2 May 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PBEBR ASSOCIATION. London, April 30. The accident aboard the FormMable was due fo a derrick slipping. Lieutenant Pringle was amongs l ' thp killed, Th' re were 42 deaths in London from smdlpox last week. A cowded mfet'ng of citizens of Dublin denounced th» Lord Mayor's r-cen* ac'ion with regard to the CO' On*tio", and decide I to pree-t an ddre-- 'o the Ki' g. Brussels, April 30. It is rep"ited that British triors In v» oempie 4 B lgian t'-rri'ory within The Lado onclav, Eastern So'jdan. Madrid, April 30. The Barcelona wim"e pal aufch'ri'ies d 'C'ded nt ♦oclebrat.e K ; ng Alfonso's co ona f ion. Crowds chHer< d the de cision. New York, April 30. O"1 Smith, which is proc- eding at Manili, show'd t.be inhibi'ants of tha inland of Samar of all age* were guilty of savage treaoh—v and massacring American soldiers, making it necessary to adopt the strictest measures. Received 1,10.47 p.m. London, May 1. The Qenoa newspaper CaJ/aro states that Italy intends acquiring an island in Australian waters on which to establish a penitentiary colony for the transportation of confirmed criminals and dangerous persons hitherto condemned to solitary confinement. Tho same nows is published in some French j' urnals. Received 2, 0.37 a.m. I London, May 1. The reported occupation of the Lado enclave is eemi-offirially contradicted, [Lado is a fortified station on the Upper Nile, in Emin Pasha's Pmvirca.] Bkrlin, May 1. The r«-tml of Sergeants Marten and Rickel by the Court of Appeal, for shooting Captain von Krosigk, resulted in their acquittal. The case in its several phases has been before the Ger- . man Courts for some mooths, and created a large smnunt of interest. Received 2, o.n.m. Capk Town, May 1. The trial of Princess Ridziwill is' concluded. Accused'- counsel urged that she had acted with r.o fraudulent intent, and nobody was injured by thp transactions. The Attorney-Ger.eral stigmatised her as a blackmailer, and a cruel and dangerous woman. The Chief Justice in summing up remarked that it wps rot suggested in the correspondence that. Mrs Scholtz hail handed the prisoner r,he bit's. A verdit of guilty was returned on all counts. T ho Chief Justice, in p ssing sentence, deplored the prisoner's attempt to ? c p«rse an innocent (Mrs Sch Itz). and also the brih ; ng of post, ■ ffic bny 'o commit fo- ery. O v inshe r d lieh al h. Pri'.cpss Radziw'll w s c " mirt H for f < o \ears o t.Vie i nns of correction. Tlip jr. iso'6'- 'istem d to the sunt-tue wi h bow-"fi head. {