MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 202, 11 September 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

m TSSia AS3OOJATION. London, September 9. Mr Ohambwlain, replying to an Inverness correspondent, d. chred that he does not intend to proposi a Ux oa land values in order to provide for old age pensions. Many Lancashire cotton operatives have migrated to Canada as a result of alackne3B in the cotton goods trade. New Yoke, September 9. Colombia now stks twenty million dollars for the Isthmian Canal conces«on and £IO,OOO from the Canal Co., also one-fourth mors premium andj rental af wr the laps* of«v ry century. '■ Th<re is come exoittmen* in B go a, owing to rumours that America intends to assist P-nama to become an independent Republic with a -i w of canying ont the o.iguial on 1 treaty. Bkusskls, September 10. King Leopold otjeots to the proposed inquiry into the Congo Free State administration being cotfined to the Congo. He proposes an international commission to etquire into the Brit'shOerman West African colonies also. London, September 9. The loss of wages through 'be late ttoppage uf tinplate workers in Sjuth Wales was £25,000. St. P«tkbsbcbg, September 9. Two rioters in connection with the .trouble at Rostov were sentenced to and two to penal servitude. Russia has adoped legislation abolishing barmaids. Received 11,1.18 a.m. London, September 10. The Leicester Trades Congress has Instructed its Parliamentary Committee to draft a Bill securing the Union funds against actions for damages, It protested agaitst the Government's selection of members of the Royal Commission to inquire into the legal posi i n "f trades unions as en insult that would justify the refusal of workmen to give evidence.