MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 105, 1 May 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

RR PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, April 29. Sir Will-am Vernon Harcourt is ill with a severe attack of rheumatism. The percentage of bits in guncery practice by the British Mediterranean flee", has been raised from 33 to ov:r 50. The World says Oirdinal Vaughan is in a very critical condition. Even if his life is prolonged it is ucl>kely that he will agtin participate in ective work. Thirty thousand pounds has been subscribed towards the Lancashire movement in favour of cotton growing in the British Empire. The abnual report of the Orient Steamship Company shows a credit balance of £1272. The managers will contribute the balance nrcssary to pay a dividend en preferred shires, and it is proposed to pay a dividend of 5 per cent, on deferred thires oat of deferred reserve account. New Yoke, April 29. President Roosevelt h>>B summoned the Cabinet to confer with him at St. Louis. The underwriters of the Americtn Steel Trust made two hundred per cent, profi*. A forest fire destroyed the town of Kimball, in the State of Wisconsin. Received 1.0.1 a m. Paws, April 30. President Lcubst, speaking at Bozerta, declared the port was impregnable. He added that while France threatened none, she meant to uphold her interests and honor throughout the world.