News by the Mail.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 267, 15 November 1904, Page 4

News by the Mail.

UNITED STATES NAVY, SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. Quite a fleet of warships have lreen added to the United States navy in the last few weeks. On Oct. 4 tho battleship Ohio, one of the largest in the navy, was placed in commission here. After a cruise of the const, she will go to the Asiatic station. On Oct. 11 the cruiser Chattanooga was placed in commission at New York. She is the most powerful vessel in tile navy, and ranks with the best of other navies. She was built at the Government yards. Malicious attempts were made to wreck the Connecticut, by, it is supposed, " disgruntled" workmen. The big battleship Nahjraska was launched at Seattle, on Oct. 7, at the new yards at l'tiget Sound. The heaviest vessel evjr launched for the I'nited States navy is the battleship Georgia. She was launched at Bath, Maine, on October lith. She is very powerful, being pre-eminent in sjwed and concentration of lire. On the same (late the gunboat Paducah was launched .it New York, and the training'ship, Uoxer, the first of her class, was launched at Portsmouth navy yard, to be used by the Naval Academy at, .Annapolis. On October 51 h the training-ship Intrepid was launched at Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco. The launching of the Intrepid was attended bythe olllcers of the Russian cruiser Lena, which has been dismantled here, also the officers of tho Chilian ship of war in port..

THE PEACE CONFERENCE. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. The thirteenth international peace conference was opened in Boston on tho 3rd hist, The delegates were welcomed by the Secretary of State., Mr. John Hay, who praised their woVk, and in tho name of the President promised tho support of the Arimisislration so far as practicable. The Right Rev. John Percival rfehop of Herefovd, responded, and said European nations looked to the United States to lead the peace movement. He felt grateful for Mr. Hay's address, for it had been .given on behalf of the President of the United States. Mr. Lurid, Norwegian delegate, presented the greetings of his country, Tho report of the International Peace Bureau on the Russo-Japamcse war was read. The bureau had endeavoured to bring oibotil conciliation without success. Jt was hop,od the moment was not far distant when tho bureau would bo able to induce belligerents to listen to th« voice of reason. The report suggested that other nations should refuse war loans. Dr. W. E. Darby, the British delegate, presented resolutions on behalf of his committee, calling upon the Ix-Uigou'cnls to end the war, and upon the signatory powers of the Hague Convention to impress upon them the importance of endira; the strife. William R. Creamer, England characterised the Anglo-Japanese' treaty as a blunder, and said that doubtless it haid had much to do with the war. Colonel Brycc Jones M <-, Mgorptialy defended the treatv