HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 258, 16 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

FATAL TRAiN ACCIDENT. MADRID. Dec. 14. A train near Malaga fell over a bridge, "| a distance of 00 feet, two carriages escaping, Fifteen passengers were killed and 20 injured.

L &MALL FOX. » CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 14. Eighty deaths from small-pox have occurred at Kastoria, Macedonia. The disease is rapidly spreading. MILLIONAIRE AND EDUCATION. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Mr J. D. Rockefeller, the millionaire, is preparing a new series of enfor Chicago University. TRADES UNION METHODS. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. A Trade Union in Chicago was linen! in its corporate capacity for interJviing with business or employers tjf various firms: This is the first conviction of Its kind iii thfc United States

U.S. PRESIDENCY. * NEW YORK, Dec. 14. A ftitud amounting to half a million sterling, largely subscribed by trust magnates, has been formed for the purpose of defeating Mr Roosevelt's re-nomination for the Residency. A MILITIA COMMAND. OTTAWA, Dec. 14. Sir F. W. Borden, Minister for Militia, has arranged that in future a Canadian officer shall command the Mi litre, instead of an Imperial officer.

RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. ST. PEIEftSBURG; Dec. 14. A congress consisting of fifty delegates from the Russian social democratic party has fomiod a central committee to direct the movement jbhrougbout Russia.

SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, Dec. 14. The attorney for the Afrikander Bond contradicts tbe reported Uottab-Dangrove agreement. (He reported agreement' was that Botha would withdraw his hostility to Lord Mi toe r whi'le an appeal was being' made to the Empire to support the Transvaal Land Syndicate's c£fort» to obtain assistance from British, Colonial amd Boer farmers. •

A FEARFUL DEATH. Received lu, 9.9. a.m. LONDON, Dec. 14. While an artisan was crossing a Street in Hanby, Staffordshire, a forgotten colliery shaft, 200 feet deep, suddenly opened and swallowed him. Planks cwvorins the shaft were rotten and were covered with earth. Rescue was impossible. A second mao just escaped.

RECORDING TELEPHONE. LONDON, Dec. 14. Successful trials are being made In London with a record ng telephone.

COALING PIER AT HONGKONG. LONDON, Dec. 14. The Admiralty is building a coaling ]iier for battleships at Hongkong. jJjiG&ll. ,

COTTON GROWING. LONDON, Dec. 14. The "British Association has engaged Professor Stimson, of the Mississippi Agricul-

tural Ooll,eg)e, to proceed to West Africa to teach the natives cottonmf- growing and the improvement of the j Btapto.

THIBET. @ Received 16, 1.4 a.ml BOMBAY, Dec. 15. Dalai, a lama, bias returned Lord Curzan's letters. Hie majority of the Thibetans favour traxle with India, but the monks at Lhassa dominate the situation.

BUS SI AN FINANCE MINISTER. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15. M. MurcheoS has been appointed Minister for Finance, in succession to M. Pleske, who retired owing to illhealtb.

DYNAMITERS AT WORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Two unsuccessful attempts were mode to dynamite siotne unfinished buiMings in New York, owing to a (dispute in the building trade.