MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 16 June 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

FEB FBKSB AIBOCIATIOX. London, Jure 13. In view of the Imp-rUI Conference the Post Office i« itquiriog of tbe Agents-General what subsidies are piid for mail services. The committee und*r E<rl Cimperdown, recently ap-p-infed by t,h« Admiralty toj inquire into the Government's subvention agraemsnt with regard to merchant cruiser*, is also making similar inquiries. ' Paris, June 13. A clerk of the B ink of France has embezzled £40,000 and abscinded. Berlin, June 13. The Upp r House of the G >rman Diet has referred to a commits e a Bi I to provide £12,000,000 to buy laod in Polish districts to settle German peasantry. St. Petersbubq, June 13. Hirsch Locker*-, who kst month sho' and wounded the Oovtmor of th« Russian province of Vilno, has been executed. New Yobk, June 13. The Bhip building cooahina'ioo of America is buildicg the la>gest dry dock in the world on Staten M <nd. It his secured cootrac's for three years, a gg ra 6*ti>g thirty-seven mill'on dollars. Violent earthquakes, extending over a fortnight, have been experienced at Tulcan, Ecuador. The American Congress is formulating a scheme for the civil government of the Philippines and an eq'iiva--1 -nt. offer of liberal terms to bel l . | The Tim many Hall lire's, in repu-i diitini "Boss" Croker, s atn tha'l bi>t quality is acd thoy took him at his word whin he said he would never ag%in be a Tammany leader. Received 15. 5.25 p.m. Londos, Jure 14. Hon. Sir J. A. Cockburn, ex-Ag j n f - General for South Australia, rep;e<ents the Australian Commonwea'th at tliInt«rratiinal Labour Confererc' »t Dusseldorf.