VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

NEW PORT OF CALL. SYDNEY, June 11. Arrangements are being completed for steamers of the Anglo-Australian line to call at Fanning Island after September^ LIEUTENANT WITTON. CAPETOWN, Juno 10. Tha Legislative Assembly unanimously decided to iwtition for the release of Lieutenant Witton, who wan imprisoned in connection with outrages on natives and others alleged to have been i>erpetrated by the liush Veliclt Cartjflneers during the late Boer war, A MINISTERIAL ADVENTURE. LONDON, June 10. Itnitzk, a Russian, tired a revolver at M. Jadovski, Russian Minister at Berne, Swit/.et'Uuid. Jadovski was seriously wounded. (Received Juno 12, 9.17 a.m.) The bullet has been extracted trom M. Zadovski's forehead. The crime is attributed to a grievance Ilnitski had owing to delays in the investigation of a cltim he had made for certain property in Russia. He underwent a sentence in Vienna for libelling a Rus;-inn lady. TRADE REG ULATION. LONDON, June 10. The Daily Telegraph states that a departmental committee recommends that the Board of Trade should be transformed into a Ministry of Commerce. The Industry Committee recommends tho appointment of a Minister of Commerce at a salary of £SOOO. MINISTER AND SOLDIER DISAGREE. OTTAWA, June 10. Major-General the Earl of Dundonald, commanding in Canada, addressing military officers at Montreal, attacked the Minister for Agriculture who for purely personal or political reasons was interfering to reject oflicers he had recommended. Sir Wilfrid Laurier {Dominion Premier) says the Cabinet regards the dispute gravely.