MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXV, Issue 183, 17 August 1903, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

FIB rBBSS ASSOCIATION. London, August 14. Lord Robert Cecil states that though Lird Sihsbury ie gravely ill there is do immediate danger. There were sixty fatalities through the cyclone cf Jamaica, and the damage amonnts to £3,000,000. St. PiTKBSBiTBa, August 14k A boat containing 30 paeeengers at Kieff collided with a steamer. Eigh« 'een were drowned. Cardinal Vaughan's gross estate it valued at £743. The Hon. Gerald Fitzgerald, acoompanied by two eui.ifs, ft! while descending Mount Ro«a in t.he Alps. Mr Fitz?nrald brnb« his leg at.d huug over a precipice 10,000 feet high, Quid* \lner ho'ding him su pendcd by atop* for receu hours tiil !i. Ijj uriivcd. Vienna, August 14. It is reported here that King Peter threatens to abdioate the Servian throne. London, August-15. fieuter's agenoy sta'es that the Char soes to Rome at the end of October, and RuWq'ient'y pays an c fficfal visit to the Emperor of Austria. King Edward has began the cure at Marienbad. Be suffered considerable annoyance on the Promenade, from the raotless curiosity of the crowd, the notice having mueh difficulty to persuade the publio not to hamper the King's movements. Lord Salisbury has slightly im* proved. Berlin, August 15. General ven Bimm has succeeded Seneral von G.-ssler, as Prmsiaa Minister of War.