MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 235, 31 October 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

MB PMXBS ASSOCIATION. Rome, Oetobsr 29. Bignor Giolitti is forming a Ministry. Nkw Yobk, October 29. Dowie's collection was insufficient to pay his gas bill. He made no converts. Mrs Booth Tucker and Colonel Holland, Salvationists, were killed in a tail way accident at Missouri. London, October 29. An American diplomatist asserted that Japan in 1900 intrigued with the Fillipian leaders with a view cr obtaining coaling stations in the Philippines, This, the Japanese Legation in iiondon denies.. Received 30,10.26 pm. New Yobk, October 30. Tbe sleeping-car wherein Mrs Booth Tucker was travelling struck the standing water tank nnd hurled it five feet from its foundation. Her skull was fractured and she did not regain conaciousness. Paeis, October 30. At a demonstration at the Labour Exchange in Puis missiles were thro wn , at the police, who cleared the place, 70 demonstrators being injured and 20 policemen hurt, some by sulphuric acid. Thirty arrests were made. Bombay, October 30. Tfce Ameer of Afghanistan his expressed a wish to come to India to visit Lord Ourzan. jk London, October 30, Signor Marconi, aboard the battleship Duncan, communicated with England wirelesdy throughout the voyage from Portsmouth to Gibraltar. Received 30,10 49 p.m. London, October 30. The King, replying to congratulations on the signature of the AngloFrench arbitration treaty, trusteJ, with the City Corporation, that it would have a happy result and strengthen tbe friendships already existing between the two countri s. President Loubet sent a message declaring he was persuaded the arrangement cannot fail to increase the relations of confidence and amity between Britain and France. The Emperor of Germany presents a cup for the International-Transatlantic yacht race next year. In warmly thanking Sir Thomas Lipton for arranging, at bis instance, to wi f hdraw his recent o£fer, the Kaiser aids that he hopes the contest will stimulate a type of vessel, combining seaworthiness, safety, and comfort, without sacrificing everything to spa d, and develope a 60und type of cruiser.