VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 183, 6 August 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED. Hirst's benefit cricket match at Leeds, Yorkshire versus Lancashire, resulted in a drawn game. The 111011oy taken was £2924, and it is expected that subscriptions will raise the total to £3500. London reports extremely hot weather, a shade temperature o( 88deg. being registered. The 0 overnmont's estimate of the American cotton crop anticipates a rocord yield. The Pope, in celebrating his anniversary, declared that he was tired and sick of political wrangling. The New Zealand Government has purchased a number of prize KerryDexter bulls and heifers from tllie Duke of Leinstcr's and the Duchess of Devonshire's herds. The Daily Mail reports- that Dowie's son, Glads-tone, is enguigod to marry Ruth Hofer, a Swiss millionairess!. The Queensland Government has accepted the otter of a Samoan to build a schoolroom and teacher's residence an Torres Straits islands at a cost of £250 if the Government will establish a school anid appoint teachers. The plague pati-tint reported in Cas-tlemaine-street, Sydney, has succumbed. Mi' Carruthers, Leadvr of tho New South Wales Opposition, in his final appeal to the electors, asks them to choose between extreme socialism, jjased on class legislation, on the one hand, and Liberalism on the other. Revised estimates sihow. the South Australian expenditure for the year ended June at £2,543,000', and tho revenue at £2,511,000, At the Melbourne stud sheep sales two of Mr Gibson's Tasmanian rams brought 600 guineas each.

Willie Twickenham (who has been admitted a few moments to his mother's afternoon tea)—"l've just thought of a splendid conundrum. Why is all the silver here to-day like our new man The Guesits—"Oh, why, Willie ?" Willie (triumphantly) —" 'Cause they're both hired."