VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 182, 5 August 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED. It has been decided to reorganise the South Australian Agrrcu'ltural Department, and advertise for a professor in Kurope. Mr Fitzpatrick's amendment to tire Canadian Militia Hill lias been extended so a» to enable the militia to bo sent to any part of the Empire. There are fears of a furt her anthracite coal strike in America. Trie United Mine Workers' lAssociatioji has practically decided to strike ; eighty thousand men will be involved. The Australasian Conference of Young Men's Christian Associations has opened at Sydney. Mr Holmes Hemery represents New Zealand. Tile Argentine lias ugreed to allow the importation of Australian slock, excepting cattle t<i<« ! iiarantitted. A case of plague is reported from Clarence-street, Sydney, The population of the State of Western Australia is 239,024. an increase of 15,745 in twelve months. The New Zealand cycle road racers arrived at Sydney on Wednesday by the Moerak'i, in good condition notwithstanding the rough passage across the Tusiuan Sea. The British Medical Association has adopted a resolution that only qualifications which are registrable in Great liritain and Ireland will lie registrable in, Australia. Four men received sentences ranging from four to six year's in connection with the roHbery of a wages 4»ag from a bedstead manufacturer named Forster, at I'ltimo on April 29th. Two more sittings of the Federal House were occupied by the d sctission of the Capital Sites Bill, which is, still unfinished.