VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 154, 4 July 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

ENGLISH FINANCE. LONDON, July 1, The Exchequer receipts for the first (Juarter of the financial year have fallen by £2,fi9(i,2!i9, of which two million is property and income tax. BANKERS IMPRISONED. BERLIN, July 1. 11l connection with tha Pomeranian Bank scandal, Hen- Schultz was sentenced to three awl a half years for (broach of trust and manipulation of thu tyilance-sheet and in addition was finod £ISOO. Hcrr liomerich, a fellow director, received three years and was fined £3OO. FRENCH ADVISER FOR MOROCCO PARIS, July 1. A French civilian official goes to Tangiersi as the Sultan's financial aidviser. "PASSIVE RESISTANCE" MARTYRS, LONDON, July 1. Twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one passive resistance summonses were issued during the year tunl 971 sales occurred in connection with them. There were 22 casus of imprisonment. AUSTRALIAN STATE REVENUES. MELBOURNE, July 2. The Victorian revenue for the year shows an increase of £841,000 compared with the preceding year. AN EXEMPLARY SENTENCE. (Received July 3, 9.22 a.m.) CAPETOWN, July 12. Police Sergeant Clwteris, of Capetown, has been sentenced to fifteen lashes and two years' hard labour for receiving money from houses of ill fame. An appeal has i>e(n lodged. The Kaiser returns King Edward's visit in August. He comes with his fleet. Three hundred United Kingdom workmen's delegates are voting Paris. A rocket exploded aboard the cruiser Juno, which was escorting King Edward's yacht to England, killing two men. Reports from various slieep districts of New South Wales show that the autumn liuntiing has been highly Satisfactory. Over 6,050,000 lambs have been marked. German Chaiwbers of Commerce have asked the London International Commercial Association to arrange for British commercial delegates to visit Germany in the autumn, promising a return visit. In connection with irregularities in ragiard to the importation of New Zealand iisii one ollicer was fined two months' salary ami compulsory retirement from the service, and two others had their salaries reduced for a year.