VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 168, 20 July 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED, London asylums at present houa / 23 449 lunatics. ' m Queensland general elections have been fixed for August ' A discovery of crude patroleum has been made near the Duke of Orleans i Bay, West Australia. ' \ V-'f' A system of Federal fjuoratttiGS ;; T may bo established without waiting , for the pussage of legislation. " V Tho Marquis do Villaviejl was fcUk ed while playing polo at Osteud.' opponent's stick striking him ifo tta»head. •, Tho birthrate in London hah steadily decreasing. It was" 28* mr ~ thousand in 1902, compared with 861 •< in 1867. ' * ;j

There is bitterly cold weather 14 ~{ Tasmania, aJid heavy snow in ft* . J highlands. A man named Hodges 1 was frozen to death on the Dee River, The Dally Express records an traoNllnary oxporlment at CanistoiiSt \> (Lancashire), where a Dntt William* - electric ore-finder located *a copptn lode which hod been lost for forty years.

The secretary and several officials and members of tho Italian Gymnastic Club at Trieste (Austria) have been arrested in consequence of tlw ' discovery of bombs and oxploilvts at the premises of tho club, which la described as a hotbod of Irredentism (a political agitation having for its object tho incorporation with Italy of neighbouring regions subject to other Governments, but largely Italian in population).

The South African touring cricket team beat a moderate English elevaai by 118 runs.

The Sydney Morning Herald. ■in urging the national importance ol rifle practice and regretting tho *!>« ! /' sanoe of Australians in tho RolapoiV { Cup competition, says"Bat whta • rillomcn compare the New Zcalander* scoro and that of tho Australian* last year their congratulations arte ' chastened by the reflection that tbe Kolapore Cup might have been !»• -■ - toined by Australia for at least an- • • other year." (lit should be remembered that a high wind Interfered with shooting at one of the raflMac last week, causing att r appiodißt* lowering of tho totals made by all competitors on those ot tJie prerioUf year.) Tho Marseilles dockers have reeuovixl work, tlu> masters iiaving been beaten. Handicaps for the Duitlop rout race from Goulburn to Sydney hav» been declared. The New Z«a]and4r« 1 .Smith, linker, and Amst are .placed h on scratch, and Harrow receives 1& min. handicap. At a meeting of the Commercial Hanking Company of Sydney the pro-' fits for tho half-year, were stated to be £85,820. A dividend of J.O per cent, was declared, £15,000 added to reserve, and £20,8X9 carried tor* ward.