VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 235, 8 October 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

PRINCESS LOUISE OF CODURG. VIENNA, Oct. 0. Austria has consented to hold an inquiry into the state of Princess Louise of Coburg's mind. CHOLERA IN CAUCASIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 6. One hundred and eleven cases of cholera are reported from Baku, of which 61 proved fatal. UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Oct. 6. Despite improvement in the cott 0 n trade in Lancashire, 10,000 breadwinners are idle in Manchester, and 50,000 persons on the verge of starvation. There is also increasing d stiess in London and other centres of population, which occasion:-, anxiety for tiho coming winter. (Received Oct, 8, 1.9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. The Government hits summoned a conference of various Boards of Guardians to formulate a scheme to copo with the distress. PAN-BRITANNIC CONFERENCE (Rqaivod Oct. 7, 10.50 p.m.) CAPETOEN, Oct. 7. South Africa generally welcomes the idea of a pan-Britannic conference. BOERS WHO "OWN NO COUNTRY" CAPETOWN, Oct. 7. The eight recalcitrant Boers return to the Transvaal 0 n making the declaration of allegiance. GERMANS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Twenty thousand- Germans took Part in a procession in St. Louis in Commemoration of the landing of the Nunnonites in 1683. Tlso German Amb a ssador, addressng the demonstrators, conveyed to them tlie Kaiser's greeting and his assurance of his warm interest in their wolfare. EXCHEQUER BONDS. (Received Oct. 8, 1.9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. Tenders for an issue of Exchequer bonds amounted to twenty Million*, at an average price of £9B 4s 3d. GALES IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Oct. 7. The equinoctial gales have caused shipwrecks and some fatalities along tho British coast. LATE SHIPPING. BRISBANE, Oct. 7. The Manukau lias arrived from Vancouver. MELBOURNE, Oct. 7. Tho Burgomeister Ilalketman has arrived from New York.