VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 282, 2 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

NEWCASTLE COLLIERY TROUBLE. (Received Dec. 1, 9.18 p.m..) SYDNEY, Dec. 1. It has transpired that a conference between the northern colliery iwners and employees, with a view if settling the present dispute, proved abortive, and it is improbable , hat there will be any further negoiations. STARVING BLACKS. BRISBANE, Dee. 1. The Acting-Protector of Aborigiie.i, telegraphing from St. George, ;a town on BulonDu River, 285 idles W.S.W. of Brisbane) says the jtecks are dying daily of starvation. l'he medical officer reports that nany blacks will die shortly unless lourishment is sent, and that pneunomia is very prevalent. The Government has taken immediate steps -o send, relief. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-HUN-HARY. (Received Dec. 1, 10.4 p.m.) BERLIN, lice. 1. Negotiations for a German-Aus-tVo-Hung&rian commercial treaty have failed. An agreement was reached on industrial matters, but agrarian questions constituted the Jifficulty. COLONIAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, Dec. 1. The Right Hon. H. O. ArnoldForster, Secretary of State for War, speaking, at Croydon, said the colonial conference would meet, despite Mr Asquith and others. Every sensible man ought to give weight to the collective wisdom of tho people of Britain, Canada, «nd Austruliaia, enabling the Empire to meet unfair attacks on its trade and thus strengthen the solidarity of the Motherland and colonies. UNIVERSITY MEN AND TARIFFS. LONDON, Dee. 1. Nineteen Conservative resident members of the Cainjjridge University have declared their lack of confidence in the Right Hon. Sir J. E. Gorst, owing to his actions during the past two years, and they intend to nominate another parliamentary candidate. Sir John Gorst refuses to resign, and intends to stand on the Free r lVade platform. I A DISAPPOINTED LITIGANT. 1 (Received Dec. 1, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent states that the Rev. Isaac Selby, of Australia, shot at and missed Judge Hebbard while the latter was seated on the bench at San Francisco. Selby recently sought divorce, and conducted his own case, and Judge Heboard's decree in favour of his wife enraged him. BULGARIAN DEFENCE. SOFIA, Dec. 1. The Chamber has voted a million and a half sterling for the purchase of quickflring guns and the extension of coast defences on the Black Sea. " LONG LIVE ENGLAND |" ROME, Dec. 1. King; Emmanuel, in his Speech from tile Throne, referring to foreign sovereigns affld their visits, was warmly applauded when he mentioned King Edward, the whole assembly cheering many times and shouting " Long; live England !" NEW SOUTH WALES HARBOUR RATES BILL. (Received Dec. 2, 1.4 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 1. The declined to accept the Legislative Council's amoninientfl in the Harbour Rates Bill, and the measure was re-intro-duced and passed all stages in the Assembly, and was read a first time in the Council.

VICTORIAN BUTTER TRADE. MELBOURNE, Dec. 1. A conference of representatives of butter factories and merchants' Or g«nts resolved to recommend producers to co-operate to market their own products. It also decided, by 80 votes to 5, against Tjhe establishment of an open butter exchange as recommended by the Butter Commission. LATE SHIPPING NEWS. HOBART, Dee. 1. Arrived : Gothic, at 5 p.m. to-day. She soils at 6 p.m. on Friday f o r Wellington. The vessel brings 25 Australian and 261 New Zealand passengers. GENERAL NEWS EPITOME. Mr Kruiger's remains, en route for burial at Pretoria, have arrived at Capetown. The Salvation Army offers to receive at its labour farm at Hadley 1000 London unemployed. The Congregation of Oxford University, by 200 votes to 171, retains compulsory Greek. The Indian office discredits the alarmist report about the movement of troops on the Afghan frontier. A strong Afghan escort, under Ghulan Hassiny met the British mission to Afghanistan and gave it a most eordial reception. Lord Brassoy will represent the Commonwealth on the Pacific Board during Sir Horace Tozer's (Queensland Agent-General) absence in Australia. Owing to threats of very serious measures, the Porte 'has advised th» Sultan to accept Groat Britain's proposals in regard to the Aden hinterland. The United States Supreme Court has upheld Daniel Fuycrweathor's bequest of five million sterling to twenty American colleges. The widow and nieces contested tiho bequest on ttoe ground of fraud. French correspondents at St. Petersburg assert that the Czar is disposed to grant freedom of the press and conscience, representative institutions, and immovability of Judges hut has refused popular control of tho Budget. The Right Hon. Sir Homy Camp-boll-Bamoruiann, in a speech at Manchester on the tariff question, saW :—" We have nothing better to ffivo the colonies than open ports they ought to give us greater faculties, like Canada. The Sugar Convention is causing us a loss of millions mi order to benefit the West indies by a few thousands. This is 1 a foretaste of retaliation and preference." ,