VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 262, 9 November 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

COLONIES AND FISCALITIES. (Recoivod Nov. 8, 0.55 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8. " The RigthiCHom. H. H. Asquith, late Liberal Homo Secretary, speaking at Southampton, declared ihat sine*, none of the autonomous colonies, would concede levol terms to British manufacturers a fiscal cotvfei> enco would be a sham and an ln> posture. UNITED STATES NAVAL ESTIMATES. (Received Nov. 8, 10.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. The United States Budget will' show naval estimates totalling twenty millions storling. 7

ARGENTINE PROSPERITY. BUENOS AYRES, Nov. B,' Fifty thousand immigrants have. entered Argentine during the last three months, It i» cxpoctod Uiatf Argentine cropß will be twenty-five per cent, batter than last yoar. ,

MINOR ITEMS EPITOIUBED. ' Tho Italian eloctlons resulted lb igroat Ministerialist victory. Krupp's factories are working at high prcssuro building guns for Russia. , ■ . ■■ i The late ; Sir W. V. Hnrcourt's personality has been sworn *t I £174,924. "...

Four hundred Heroros who tajjf refuge in British Bcchuan&land hew been disarmed. ■ Ji Elliott, at Sydnoy, motored '«., mile in lmin 19 3-ssec, and 5 miles in flinin 87sec, lowering tho Australian records, :i The British Consul-General 'at- ' Frisco warns Australians against emigrating to California, as the' la--hour market is overstocked. The Federal postal authorities consider reversion to tho poundage sys-i tern for tho carriage of mails would save Australia over £1)0,000 por an-, num. The Czar is reported to have told-; a banker named Mendelsohn that if a loan wore raised in Germany tho.. money would be expended there in building warships. Tho Sydney Morning Herald saj» that much interost is taken in New Zealand's proposal to establish *■'. High Commissionership, she showing . Australia the way. Mr W. Allinghani, surgeon to the, household of tho king, committed suicido by taking morphia at M»r» sellles while proceeding to Egypt on account of his hoalth. In London a billiard match, 8000 up, level, Weiss vorsus Harverson, was abandoned. Harverson had scored 7745 and Weiss 7037. The Victorian Chamber of Ma*u-\' facturers adopted n resolution com dially supporting preference, and pointed a sub-coumiittco to consider details and formulate a policy. The Hnwkesbury (N.S.W.) Agrir, eultural College is experimenting with tho famous Northern Star potatoes. Planted with thirty other., varieties they far outstripped all,; yielding a magnificent crop. Expert Brisbane local riflemen tired a number of shots from rifles In possession of tho crow of the warship Mildura, und ussort that the rifles are defective, and that -the" grooves of tho barrels are so worn ' as to have lost their utility. Dr. Henzler, Catholic Bishop of Metz, interdicted a Catholic churchyard whero n Protestant is buried,' , declaring it desecrated. The Kaiser, summoning tho Bishop to his presence, witheringly rebuked him. declaring he would not permit an inch of Protestant Gormany to bo cursed.

Mr Teeco, general manager of the A.M.P. Society, has returned to Sydney from a tour in England, Canada, and America. Ho states that Canada looms much larger in English eyes than Australia at the present time, and that New South Wales is being left behind in competition with tho other States of Australasia. While London stores are full of New South Wales butter, rabbits, and other products, the ducts of Now Zealand and Victoria, are sold before thoy arrive.