MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 208, 29 September 1903, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

pis pans AsaoouTioH. Londov, Stp'ember 27, It has been decided to re-aim tba cavalry with a new light straightthrusting sword gun, The committea -w adopted a 15pinnder quick firing field gun, firing effective shrapnel at 6600 yards at Okehamptoo, Devon, to 10,000 yards. It is considered the best of ito kind in Europe. The New Zealand Shipping Company's report for tbe year shows a profit of £54,742. After paying a dividend of 5 per cent., £10,570 is carried for* ward.

General Rir Archibald Hunter, who was reported to have been appointed to the command of th<> Madras forces, h«s beon transfered to Bmbay to command in sued ssion to General Low. Received 28, 9 50 p.m. Calcutta, September 28. Viscount Ou'z m, in November, escorted by warships, will visit Mueeat and the Persian Gulf ports. Losdon, September 38. Aso ending at Saint Cloud, near Pari*, in as'eidy but light south south-east-erly breeze, a balloon carried Count Delavang and 'two companions across he Eaglish Channel, aloog the eastern counties, and over the town of Hull. At 11 o'clock next morning it alighted in the vicinity of Hull. London, September 28. Count Delavang. in the course of an interview, stated the balloon crossed the Thames between Greenwich and Chatham, and that there was tvery prospect, when in the vicinity of Hull, of reaching Scotland es they had 230 kilograms of sand in reserve, but the wind changed and threatened to o»rry them out to sea, thus oompalling them to descend.

Beoelved 29,0.1 a.m. W Vibnju, September 28. I The Chamber of Deputies, with * view to effeoting a compromise, has dropped the ill-starred Austro-Hun-garian Army Bills. Cokstantwopm, September 28. The American warships remain at Beyrout, as it is feared that riots would follow their withdraw]?.

There are 16 battalions, including many Konu trorps, distributed at places overlooking the Struma Valley