MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, January 12. Mr Hanbury, President of tre B wd of Agriculture, spanking at a fatmera' coofernuce at Leicester, said that the corn duty was an object lfgsoo. It had not iocr«a«ed the pi ice of b-ead. Mr Hanbury added it would be v ry interfacing to how far, without injuring h' m) customer, it would be possible to make foreigners pay duty on a good many articles they sect into Britain.

The Spanish Ambassador in London sti f ej (hat Fieto did not fi-e at King Alfonso, but at the Duke of So'omayor, the King's Grand (Jhamberlain, who had refus-d him an interview. A soldier cut Fleto with a sword thus preventing him from firing a secotd shot. Mr Pi-rpont Morgan's Trus 1 ; is building twelve steamers of the Celtic 'ype for the A'lautic trade. Six of th 9 new vessa's will be built in American waters, and six by British builders. They will cost half a million each. • New Yjbk, January 12. Baron Holleben, who has been recalled fri m his post as German Am-1 baeswlor at Washington, started for [Germany wi f hout calling on President Roosevelt or allowiug any flag flying fo:milities aboard the steamer on which he embarked, A coal train broke down at Are3la, in Illinois. Thfi inhabitants who have been without coal for wteks, pillaged the train 1 threatenitgto lynch anyone whoinferfered with them. Vienna, January 12. The Emperor Francis J sepia of Austria hes off red Princess L>iiso a casthj if she abandons M. GiroD, her children's tutor with whom she elop?d.