VERIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 238, 12 October 1904, Page 3

VERIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED. Two Frenfch destroyers and leu torpedo boats passed Port Said, * proceeding to the Far East. In a with natives on the Fly River, New Guinea, two native police were.'Seriously, and the Magistrate' slightly, wounded. Robbers dynamited a bank at Free-land,; Indiana, and escaped with the contents ot the safe after u running revolver fight through the village; -• - ■ • One bundled «md fifty French physicians and "'surgeons visiting London were welcomed by the College 01 Surgeons, -■ They inspecUxl the hospital. ■'■•■'■;•' Chinese 'troops defeated ■■ a large body of.rebels at Lochengh-sien, in Kwangsi/ after three days' fighting. Boxerism. is spreading in the northern provinces.' ■Hie ; Queensland State Treasurer has requested Sir George Turner • (Federal Treasurer) to keep the Commonwealth expenditure as low as possible ft consideration of the financial condition of Queensland. The captain of the steamer Shangsha, jiis't arrived at Brisbane, is of opinion that ' the ■ nrysteriou.s warships are probably two of a «• number sent 1 by the Dutch Govern meat, to vittjt, Hutch New Guinea and the neighbouring islands. General Dtssirier, Governor of Paris;, has arrested Rollin Dautriche Francois , Wirechor for concocting .evidence in connection with the notorious trial of Dreyfus at Rennes, and they have been ordered to be. court-martialltd.