VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 283, 3 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE. (Received Dec. 2, 11.52 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. President Roosevelt acquiesces ia Russia's suggestion to postpone the peace conference till uiU'i tbe »«r. 'I ho invitations purpouely omitted the dutu, lest some Powers should hesitate during the war to discuss neutrals' rights. FINANCIAL TROUBLES. (Received Dec. 3, 0.15 ajn.>) LONDON, Dec. 3. The liabilities of the London and Bails Exchange amount to £225,000. Arrangements are being made to Settle matters and resume business on Monday. TRAVELLING FRENCH SQUADRON, LONIK)N, Doc, 2. The French squadron proceeding to uhc Far East was extensively. feted at Colombo. GENERAL NEWS EPITOME. In accepting a Royal Commission the Free Church of Scotland suggests limiting its scope. An extension of the Cape to Cairo railway 350 miles north of too. itaiibesi has been authorised. The United Presbyterian Church Kilmulr mission premises. atSlamn, lsde of Skyc, has been forcibly seiaed. Russia heartily approves of President Roosevelt's proposed peace conference, but suggests that it be postponed until after the war. The Right Hon. H. 11. Asquith (late Liberal Home Secretary,), in speaking at Southend, did not object to a Redistribution Bill in 1005 if accompanied by necessary reforms of the franchise. Mr Joseph Letter, owner of the Zloigler initios, in Illinois, U.S.A., who was indicted for bringing arm-, Ml men, into the state and. violating the statute is liable to ImpVisonmeiit from one to five years. The Queen inquired, and assisted sufferers by the failure 0 f the Needham Market penny bank. Thepublic KubscittKd £2OOO. Mr Edgar l>reyer, banker, added £5700 and J&5670 to cover the depositors' loss. The Colombian Government pre« pones an alternative canal route -by way of the Atrato and San Juao Rivers. Cliili approves, end It 1* expected Bolivia, Brazil, and the Argentine will concur. The New South Wales Assembly has laid aside the Stamp Duty BUI' The Premier intimated toot he would introduce another bill to affirm Hie right of the House to control vSt taxation of the country The New York correspondent ol the Timesi says that President Roosevelt favours turif! revision, and it moving persuasively in urging consideration of the subject on purely economic grounds. y The municipalities of St. Peters-, burg and Moscow approve of Mayor Seratoffs suggestion asking th7ao- ' \crninent to convene a congress ol representatives of all Russian muni. cipalities. Sir William Huggins, president, addressing; the Royal Society in London saEd Professor Rutherford, by his investigation into radio activity had added an unexpected domain of transcendent theoretical interest to physical science. Owing to liabilities connected with extensive business options the London and Paris Exchange, Limited, roughly estimates that it owes £25,000 to members of the Stock Exchange and £IOO,OOO to Other creditors.