MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 200, 25 June 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

'' MS PMESS ASSOCIATION. Losdon, June 23. The conference of members of the House of Commons interested, in tbe f Iron, steel, and engineering industries and electricity meets on Thursday to arrange a vigorous crusade in support! of Mr Chamberlain's policy. It is ex-i . pJCted tKit 150 Unionists wM attend. Cardinal Yaughan's body is lying in state in Westminster CUth°dra'. It will be interred in the Mill Hill cemetery. Bir Michael Hicks-Beach, la v e Chancellor of the Exchequer, his been elected " chairman of the Seleat Commit tea appointed to irquire into tin question of the incidence of the income tax. The ship Aquarius has been fitted with powerful distilling apparatus and experimentally attached to the Channel Bquidron to feed water tube boilers, particularly torpedo destroyers, with the object of preventing the impurities of water esatiog the boiler tubas. Ottawa, Juce 23. Sir Thomas Shaughseesey, President . cf the Canadian-Pacific Railway, states that falling trees' caused delays in Pacific cable?, and that the CanadianPacific Railway Company is laying a line acrosi Vancouver Island, which would prevent such delay. Bkblik, June 23. The Kaiser, unveiling a s'atue to Frederick the Great at Doeberitz, declared " My army will remain an instrument to suppoit if nec ssary my policy. If the pen fails, then the keen edge of the sword will support." Nkw Yobk, June 23. A newspaper started on the island of Santa Oataline, off the coist of California, depends on ethergrams from the mainland for the world's new?. A crowd cf 4000 at Wilmington, Delaware, stormed the workhouse, and seized and burned a negro at the stake. He was awaiting trial for assaulting and murdering a clergyman's daughter. Received 2i. 10.27 p.m. London, June 24. Mr Ohamberkin reim posed the Maitese constitution of 1887, owing to the ' elected numbers of the Council insisting that children should be taught Italian, while the Government left parents to choose either Italian or English. Bkkldt, June 24. The newspapers state that a body of Russian troops had been ordered to the East, ostensibly to test the transport facilities of the Siberian Railway.