VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 165, 16 July 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

ITEMS EPITOMISED. [ Tho South Australian no-confi-dence debate will probably last a fortnight. Eighteen picnickers were killed and sixty-eight injured in a railway collision near Chicago. France has assured Italy that it has no "deal" with Captain Ereelessi, the alleged spy. Harrison, convicted of the bomb outrage at Ballarat, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. It is reported from Massowah (Somaliland) that tho Mullah is forty miles from Berbera (a Red Seaport). Five hundred Boers, under Commandant Maritz, are helping General Trochu (German commander) to crush tho Hereros rising. A heavy gale, with hail and rain, swept over Adelaide on Thursday. Considerable damage was done to the outer harbour works. The tido was the highest for ton years. French newspapers consider the Anagreement terminates latent State hostilities, though there >s no definite rapprochement, and it therefore cannot impair France's relations with Great Britain, but will constitute a new pledge of peace. M. do Witte (l a te Russian Finance .Minister) and Count von Bulow (.German Chancellor) are conferring with regard to a commercial treaty. Russia requires concessions in regurd to corn in return for concessions in duties on industrial products.

The American beef trust has refused to concede one and a half hours Ito unskilled workers. The railway mm are beginning to refuse to load the meat trains for New York. British market mist officials predict a famine if the strike lasts ten days. Eighty thousand men are involved iin the strike. Later news states that tho strikers will agree to a settlement by arbitration.