MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 107, 10 May 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. The Hague, May 8. The la'est bulletin about Queen Wilhelmina is to the efl'cr, that the fever hss left her, and s!<e is progressing favourably. Washington, May 8. In the Senate Mr Geo.-ye F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, has introduced a Bill authorising President Roosevelt to select the Isthmian canal route, cost of ; construction to be limited to 180,000,000 dollars. '

. New York, May 8. Tke New York Post Hsserts that the American railroad companies, owing to the formation of the Navigation Syndicate, hopes to control r.it'rs from the principal points in the interior to the leading European centres. Received 9, 10.7 pm. London, May 9. On a charge of conspiring to defraud a number of solicitors and clients by means of forced leases involving .£50,000, lomnx, a solicitor, was sen-! tenced at the Old Biiley to five years' j imprisonment • Thomas Simmons, a ] solicitor's clerk, four years; and J, M. i Birkett, a clerk, eighteen months. Charles Gibson, a house and estate i agent, was discharged. Received 9,10.37 p.m. London, Msy 9 The Berlin Merchants' Guild bhmo-i the pro-Boer Press for caas-ng G rman firms to lose contracts in Great Britain and the colonies, to the extent of hundreds of millions of marks, Received 9,10.56 p m. London, May 9. The Duke of Concaught and Prince Henry of Prussia were ace rded an enthusiastic reception at. C rk. The? were entertained at luncheon by 'he Lord Mayor, who expressed thn hops that King Edward and the Emperor William would aUo visis liel.inrl. Mr J. K. Oaird, a prominent merchant, has given Dundee' a canrer hospital, co ting .£IB,OOO. He als > endows a laboratory for research with .£IOOO per acnum for five j ears. The peasantry of Roscommon county, Irehnd, are pleased at Mr Wyndham's action in suppressing tha terrorism practised by the League. A number of grazing farms have been let during the week. Receivrl 10, 1.12 a.m. New York, May 9. Malcolm Ford, a Brooklyn athlete, whil« ill, shot his brnther, Leicester For - ?, th* novelist, de*d. He was suffering from a fi f . of mental aberration, and subs? quently committed suicide.