THE VENEZUELAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1903, Page 3

THE VENEZUELAN CRISIS.

REPORTED RESIGNATION OF-OASTRO. SHORT OF FONDS, j PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 6, 0.34 a.m. ! New\ork, January 5. The New York Herald states it has received a vague cypher message to the effect that President Castro is resigning. Other advice; s'ate thit the Bank of Caracas has no funds to redeem giods, or meet the Government cxpfndi ure. The steamer Gumbador, fiyiog the British fl.g, was toning Home of the raptured prizes wheu the hawsers pirted. She returoed to La Guiyra, landing the cresv. "* The German cruiser Vintit* was at Peurt Cabello when the Customs house ind a number of ve sels were seized. It was quite sudden, the explanation given bsing that the cap'urea were necessary to insure an effective blockade. Thirty thousand doll-trs were seized aboard the prizes. The withdrawal of the forces has piciGsd the inhabitants, who now dread the Revolutionises camped in the vicinity. GERMANY AND MONROISM. Received 6, 0 42 a.m. Bkblin, January 5. Several Germin newspapers hive grown impatient at the delays and attack Monroism, declaring Germany always repudiated the doctrine, They diclarPj.moreover, the Sau'.h American Sates do not recognise the United States as a supreme authority. i.Ji '.