VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 192, 18 August 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED. The New South Wales Parliamentary party has re-elected Mr McGowan leader. Principal Gurney, of Durham College of Science, was killed while climbing the Alps. Colonel Pitched and 450 revolutionaries in Vadena, Turkey, are projecting an insurrection. There is a recrudescence af the rebellion in South China, and the movement in Kwangiiri is rapidly spreading. A project for a .railway from Saint Jervais to the summit of Aigalle Gouter, Mont Blanc, has been sanctioned. The London Daily Chronicle reports that fifteen negroes ed in one batch at - Statesiboro, Georgia, for murdering whites.

, A conference of co-operative butter ■factory represemtatives at Sydney favoured a bill to enforce grading. It was agreed to export to Sydney all the spring output above local requirements, with a view to maintaining the price of prime flatter in Sydney at nincpence, and special selected Sid.

In connection with the rebellion in German South-West Africa, General von TrothlL haid two days' severe fighting, principally in thick bush. He capturod Hamaraki, and drove the Hereros from several positions with great loss. Five German officers and nineteen men were killed, and six officers and sixty men wounded.

At'.lhte Victorian Butter •- Commission sitting on Tuesday Mr Sinclair, formerly Government agent in London, accused Mr Travener, Minister for Agriculture, with arranging with a company to personally act as their agent! in oMaining shipping produce. Ho also accused • them of shipping inferior la.mh, some of which was seized as unfit, for human consumption, and branding it with a Government certificate. Ife declared Mr Traveller secretly applied for a s'te for refrigerating works.