MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PBB NOSS ASSOOIATIOK. London, May 1. Lug* sea pictures by Divid Davis, the colonial artist, have been hung on the line in the Royal Academy. Notwithstanding Mr Chamberlain'* warning that the reduction or postponement of the education vote woulJ be considered equivalent to reacting the Malta Legislative Council has granted only a month's supply. Last month the value of orders placed with English makers for automobiles totalled £1,000,000. St. Pbtmsbuhg, MBy 1. Bilschanett has b«en sentenced to be hanged. The third essa-win has not been identified, but he is believed to be an officir. Parts, May 1. It, Temps states that disturbances have occurred on the Mekong River, and communications are cut. The Fieech Minister in Siam has remonstrated regarding the movement of Siamese troops. Serious difficulties are also reported at Baftnmbang. The Acting-Governor of French Indo-Ohina as a precaution s«ut toj th» left bank of the Mekong, opposite Bas>ack, a town in Siam, a detachmsnt of 300 troops; also 400 to Pur<at, a town in Cambodia, some miles south-east of Battambang. Niw Yobk, May 1. Evidence was given at General Smith's trial that a Filipino goneral ordered his men to poison their spears, and issued a proclamation that German warfhips were helping the Filipinos. A panic arose among 600 women working in a Philrdelphia cigar factory owing to a Mss alarm of fi>>=. Seven were killed and thirty injured. Calcutta, May 1. A tornado in the Bengal province killed 416 people at Dacca and destroyed all the crops. I Received 2, II p.m. New York, May 2. News has been received that the Italian authorities have released the Chicago's officers, who will be punished aboard the warship. .The Chicago meat packers admit that the consumption of betf has declined forty p*r c*nt. since theagi-j tation Over the formation of th" *r'>at. I London, May 2.

The British Baptists' Twentieth Oentury Fund of £250,000 has been raistd.