VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 142, 20 June 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

HOW BONUSES HLNKFIT. -dELUH UNE, j„ llt . j tS . _ Giving evidence before the jsutier Commission, a witness stated that, of j;io«,OOU paid in bonuses Uv u H Government,. XUvi.Wu reached lite larger and went to aguits. TELEPHONE MONOPOLV. LONDON, .tune I,'. Earl Stanley .(Postiuasiei-Ueueral) stated tluu me ooveriiuicnt was ngainst uie compulsory purchase ui iiie national Telephone Company's inlercvis. and added that if the pies-, cm neyotiauoiis laileu: the nieni woutu consider wnac action wus necessary m regard to competition. AN ARI.STOCRATIU BANKRUPT, (Receifved June 19, 10.25 a .m.) " * LONDON, June 18. Ino Marquess of Anglesey has assigned his estate, to hist creditors, lie receives am allowance of yearly. The creditors will be paid in 'all ia seven years. A LONGSTANDING DISPUTE. LONDON,- June 18. As a result of tho miners' stop days decision (culled on Auljast 12th last) Mr. Justice Bingham has assessed damages in the cases Powell and Duliryn and Nixon and the Navigation Collieries at live-sevenths of the origi,u)a!l ellajijus. lie urgfd the acceptance of the same as a basis of settlement; in other cases. The total damages «n that event will be £57,562, Blimf.SH By E-ELECTIONS. * LONDON, June 18. A bye-ejection for tho Hurborougii division of Leicestershire, owing to the resignation of Air J. W. Logan (LiJucralj) resultwl in the return of Mr Philip Stanhope (Libvral), who scored itiil votes ugainst' Air Dixon (Conseijvative) 0110.