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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 153, 2 July 1904, Page 3

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DISASTROUS STORM AT MOSCOW. St. PETERSBURG, Juno 30, A hailstorm and hurricano damaS«l Moscow and destroyed villages }ln the vicinity. One hundred and fifty-threo persons were killed and eighty-five injured. A SUNKEN SUBMARINE. St., PETERSBURG, June 30. Twelve of the crew who' were saved from tthe submarine Hell in, which Sink during a trial on the| Neva Rivr er . had a miraculous escape. Thej I *«ne saved by a rush of escaping air I blowing them through a mail-hole. CRICKET, k LONDON, June 30. 6 The Marylebone Club's advisory C Committee recommends that an Australian team bo invited in 1905, that five test matches be played, the four to be limited to three ™ days, and that if these result In u We the fifth be played out. k In the match Notts versus DerbyI shire. J. Gunn took six wickets for I THE MOROCCO INCIDENT, I TANGIER, June 30. ■ Tho American fleet has left here, ■ the French undertaking to organise ■ police and maintain order. The ■ Moors are exasperated at the im- ■ pending advent of French authority, ■ and the British residents are pet'iH tioning Lord Lansdowne for protec- ■ tionI JAPANESE POLITICAL AR- ■ BANGEMENT. ■ LONDON, June 30. H K consultation between the JapanCabinet and the principal politi- I cal parties is likely to result in the of a large council repreall important bodies in th* completely obviating parliadilutes next session. LABOUR COUNCIL AND JUDGE. ' , SYDNEY, July 1. Sydney Labour Council , has a reply to the remarks of Justice (Sir Frederick in his Bumming up against recent decision of the ArbitraCourt. The references to the are insulting, and the reputi able press declines to publish them. !' The council intends to print and circulate them* Mr. G. F, Watts, artist, Is in critical health. He is suffering from bronchitis. Mr" Arnokl-Forster has announced J; that the War Office will spend £l,- | 800,000 on a new. pattern of horse |; field batteries in 1905. fi Eight torpedoes were exploded at Kronsrtiadt arsenal, harmlessly, : thougtr there is great excitement owi■■ isg .to a suspioion that the explo- ; alos 4a ite result of an outrange. While motoring in Donegal Lord , Dudley and party were upset, the car nearly falling over an embank- , meat thirty feet deep. Lady Dudley | Was badly cut, but the rest escaped, t Mr W. V. Heeves has Interviewed 6 Mr Lytteiton relative to Keawwth Harper's expulsion from San Francisco and his imprisonment at Ha- » waii." Mr Lytteiton is exchanging f communications with the authorities [ at Washington respecting New Zea- ; land's claim for recompense. D/. Dowie was welcomed by Ziou- | ists in New York, a huge triumphal I . arch, •being' erected in imitation I atones, and inscribed with the names L of cities the Prophet visited. Those ■,;[ Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and ■ London, where Dowie was rejected, are marked in red lettering.