VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 281, 1 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL DISASTER. (Received Nov. 30, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 80. Tho disaster by which the naval cutter and launch were sunk wm4m to the premature explosion of • mine. ANARCHIST AGITATOR ARRESTED. NEW YORK, Nov. 80. Johann Most, while adcressino) an Anarchist meeting at St. Louis, wm arrested. GERMANY'S EXCLUSIVE COLONIZATION, (Received Nov. 80, 11.18 p.m.) 1 BRISBANE, Nov. 80.' Mr Poultney Bigelow, Professor of Jurisprudence at Boston University, who is touring the world and ! investigating! different methods ol colonisation, has returned from the German colonics In New Guinea and New Britain. He says that in the German colonies there was a great deal of colonisation but no colonist*. German officials and missionaries 'joycott English Intrusions of every kind.

EXTENSIVE JUGGLING. (Received Dec. 1, 0.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov, 80, David Shepherd, an accountant at CaidlU, has been sentenced to fW« years' imprisonment for embmliiig £I6IOOO,

GENERAL NEWS EPITOME. Russia has accepted the principle of a treaty of arbitration with the United States.

The Czar has rejected the Zemat* vos' demand for a constitution 'anil an assembly of Zemstvos. The Board of Trade tadmita that tin returns showing the confectionery 'exported fromßtitAih'for ten months ol 1904 was one hundred. thousand cwt $0 ,-JnUßh. .0} i , " ;! | ' Ex-Queen has pnestotid the Kingdom of Servia wlti tha late King Milan's and the late King' Alexander's library collections, valued at £46,000 and £BO,OOO respectively. ■ Count von Bulow, German Ohm* cellor, expressed admiration and friendship for Groat and repudiated tha idea of a {Hivpi war with Britain. It would be ft monstrous crime.

The Sultan of Turkey has withdrawn his opposition to the tale of Bibles in the Uskup district, where it was feared that the tow price of the Scriptures, yould induce a ! Christian, propaganda, iiurglam studied and gagged Colonel 1 Stockell, a jeweller in the Clerkenwell Road, London, and stole £SOOO worth of jewellery. Stockell was found unconscious 41 hour* after, tied to a pillar in his shop A bill introduced i„ the German Heichstag provides for a gradual increase of the army on a peace fooU to 505,888. The pSfcto the U|l mentions that the fVeoch army exceeds that of Germany although tha population is twenty millions less. * ¥r Taverner (Victorian- Attorney. General, before the Butter CommL admitted that he h «uT Sinclair to use his influence to secure has appointment as represents, tive of the Mancheator Ship Canal nHHw * UBtralla - *>* ttl *> admitted that ho applied for a; sib Z na^ g tr riS ' bUt *»»»■* use P urs °n wiho was to