VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 137, 14 June 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

DIVORCE. (Received June 13, 10.20 p.m.) .> LONDON, Juno .13. Sir Francis Jeune, sitting at the Divorce Division, granted Mrs Muriel Gibbs a decree for nullity of her marriage with Meade GiUbs, on Uie grounds that respondent's marriage to Emily Armstrong Grl.«bs, of Sydney, in 1880, which the Supreme Court of New South Wales dissolved in 1899, was not annulled by a court, of competent jurisdiction,since the husband's domicile was in England. AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN ARMENIA. NEW YORK, June 13. Count Cassihi, Russian Aixassador at Washington, has protested against America sending a powerful fleet to Turkey to enforce payment of '■ £5(1,000 claimed on account of American missionaries in Armenia. AN ANARCHIST SENTENCED. MADRID, June 13. Joaquin Artal was sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment for attempting to assasinate Scnor. Maura, the Spanish Premier. TIIE MOROCCAN MUDDLE. MOROCCO, June 13. The religious and educated classes, with the sheriffs and some members of the Moorish Government, me plotting to depose the Sultan liecause he favours the Europeans. It is probable the Sultan will withdraw to Tangiers. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. (Rece vod June 14, 1.12 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. Sir John See's resignation has been handed to the Governor, who has summoned the Hon. Thos. Waddell. present Treasurer, to form a Ministry. It is not considered likely that Hon. B. It. Wise, Attorney-General, und Hon. W. P. Crick, Secretary for Lands (lately Acting-Premier) will accept portfolios in the new Cabinet.