CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 166, 17 July 1903, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

BX KiBOTBIO imiORAPH—OOFYBIQHf. MISCELLANEOUS CABLESMB VKKSS ASSOCIATION. London, July 15. The Birmingham Post, io a supposed semi-officially inspired article, suggests that the Government is likely to propose a duty of 2s per quarter on wheat and one-eighth of a penny per pound on meat, The Imperial Food Supplies Company has opened a cold store at Chesterfield, with a capacity of 25,000 cubic feet. The Cor, who is honorary colonel of the regiment, has given £SOO out of £3OOO required to erect a memorial at Edinburgh to the Scots Greys who Ml in South Africa. Sir John Cockburn, in a letter to the Times, replying to Sir William Vernon Haroowt, asserts that the colonies have discarded false lights and doctrine* and reverted to common-sense empiricism and the power of adaptation to circumstances which may and can alone maintain the Empire. Tokio, July 14. political crisis is settled. Marqaig Ito has been appointed president of the Privy Council; Viscount Katsoura resumes office as Premier, and the Marquis Yamagata and Count Matsukata have been made Piivy Councillors. St. Prxbsbubq, July 15. -M. de Witte has accepted the princiP»1 tender for the construction of a bridge spanning the Strait,of Eoikale, near Kertoh. The length is 2625 yards, and the oost seven million roubles. Ottawa, July 15. Mr Blair, Minister of Railways in Canada, has resigned owing to the proposed new grand trunk line running parallel with the inter colonial system and the termination being fixed at lioncton instead of Quabrc. Beoeived 17, 0.34 turn. London, July 16. The Peninsular <fc Oriental Steamship Company versus Kingston, appeal, was dismissed with cists. The case settles the point whether the Federal Government have the power to collect duties on ships' stores between the parts of the Commonwealth.