VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

HONOUR TO THE DEAD. ADELAIDE, June 6. A statute to Stuart, the explorer, erected in Victoria S<juaro at a cost ol £I3OO, has been unveiled. "BEARING" THE COTTON MARKET. NEW YORK, Juno 5. There have been heavy sales of cotton in New York under continued "bear" pressure, and the market closed at from 26 to 45 points low«r. SENTENCED FOR MURDER. PARIS, June !>. Victorine Geraint was sentenced to ten years and a man named llassot to fifteen years' imprisonment for the murder of Madame Fourgie at Aix-le-Dains in September last. (Victorino Geraint, t\ie surviving companion of Eugenie Fourgie, a rich Parisian adventuress, who, with her maid, was murdered and robbed at Aix-le-Bains at midnight on September 20th, was arrested in October last on suspicion of having committed the crime. She confessed that she and her lover, Henri IJassot, planned the murders, and Basso was also arrested). ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET. LONDON, Juno 5. Poidevin, the Australian, was top scorer (55) for Lancashire, which defeated Surrey in a single innings. Middlesex defeated Yorkshire by 77 runs. THE TANGIERS TROUBLE. (Received June 7, 0.4 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Two Spanish Battleships', accompanied by cruisers, have gone to Tan-g-iurs. EMIGRANT CARRIAGE. BUDA PESTH, June 6. It is stated here that the Cunnrd line has allowed Hungary to withdraw her guarantee of thirty thousand steerage emigrants for America annually. COTTON CHOPS. NEW YORK, June 6. The cotton acreage in the United States shows an increase of 10 per cent.

DYNAMITING A TRAIN'. CONSTANTINOPLE, .June 0. When a train was approaching Salonlca an infernal machine wrecked the conductor's car. One person was killed and two wounded.

THE COBDEN CENTENARY. LONDON, June 6. The Times says the Cobdcn centenary celcibirations transformed a great party. From a demonstration stand point it is weak, because it is devoid of practical measures for tho future. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. (Received June 7, 1.4 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 6. A masked armed man stuck up the Milparinka mail coach, near White Cliffs, and secured the mail hags, which were subsequently found, rifled, in an abandoned shaft five miles from the scene of the rollbery. A loadc-d gun was also found. Two arrests have been made; but details of the occurrence, arc meagre. (Several mail rob'lieries have already occurred at White ClifTs, the object Mng- to secure opals in transit from the opal fields to the banks.)