MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 208, 18 September 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

MB ntEBB ASSOCIATION. Beceived 17, 10 31 p.m. Fabiß, September 16. President Loubet, in the course of a speech at the luncheon to foreign officer* attending the military mano&uYres, declared that the French Republic desired a well instructed, disciplined, «ud strong army as the best guarantee for peace. Rations willingly joined the strong, but rarely the weak; whose friendship and co-operation were useless. London, September 16. The Admiralty decline to listen to the strong representations that Lyttelton u the best port of departure for the Antarctic Mr Robert Benson, eon of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, has verted toßome, Experts declare that if the proposed YMW«erviee rifle is adopted the British Army will be worse armed than ever. Fabis, September 14, The MamaiUes Sanitary Committee «rga the Government to appeal to the Powers not to quarantine the port inossqoeat on plagne, as there is no need for alarm. Marseilles dustmen have struck and' refuse to remove refuse. Moors attacked a French convoy at Beniablea, killing the leader and 13 Algerian sbarpshooteas. M. Jaures, writing to the newspaper Petite Rypuh•liqua, says France is organising a pro tecwrate over Morooco, with the capital i tat Tangiers. Nkw York, September 16. Mr Pierpont Morgan is requesting the Americm Steel Ti ust underwriters to ertand the agreement for nine months, adtl he has called up an additional five million dollars of * cash. Five thouirod men have been discharged from the Tm-t's mines in Wisconsin and North Michigan, owing to the non-shipment of last winter's «toek of pipes.