VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 284, 5 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

LONDON AND PARIS EXCHANGE, (Received Dec. 3, 5,67 p,m.) LONDON, Dm. S. The London and Paris Exchange, Limited, has arranged with Its creditors to re-open on Monday. THE MIKADO AND PEACE. (Received Doc. 4, 5.84 p.m.) TOKIO, Dec. 8. The Mikado favours President Roosevelt.s peace conference propotA COMPANY'S FUNDS MISSING. LONDON, Dec. 8. There is a deficiency ol £21,000 in tho Argentine Meat Preserving Company's moneys. Herbert Mott, the secretary, was committed at tM» Guildhall for embezzling £4OOO ilia aluifying tho accounts. NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATION. (Received Dec. 5, 1 a.m..) SYDNEY, Dec. 4. Btoam»Wp owne« in the fcdoraUoo and commercial circles are still very dissatisfied with the Harbour Rams Bill, especially the transhipment clauses, despite the modincattoM made by tie Government «sara*ilt of the Legislative Council. critf.clsms, AMERICA'S COTTON CROP. (Received Dec. 6.88 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The Government estimate of the cotton crop is 12,102,000 bales o» 900,000 beyond the record. The £ timate surprised the New York mar, kot, which was oxcited and declined a half per cent. GENERAL NEWS EPITOME. China has Increased the traraft duty to and from treaty ports The Powers have protested. Tho St Louis Exhibition *«i do* ed. Wihile it was open It was .*, tended by twenty million peoulo. ' Thei-e is a great tmows* throughout Spain. Twenty tV • or ™ persons have been thrown V dua « Ml Uemmsawer tribesmen »' aehouse q< Mr Harris, 'l* stacked U» pondent at Tangier, * f) 08 * «"ve»the guards, killing one of

Twenty weddi*- _ ~ „ iinkj were kill*-' g B u «* rt « at Katepoisonous >ir» through drinking A targe r * Uy secretl y distilled. Oruflgctiir onsww of discontented ■fort to 'fPnws'»»opened at Branwas* . dis eus» the non-payment of otb' com P e n«ntion 1 education, and ■r gjilevanwa. A Federal Tariff Commission, con-slst-ng of oigiht members and a 'hamnan, has been selected. All art PoUticiom, with onto exception Sir Ate Quick feu fee appointed chM*

Accounts of the Melbourne manager of a well-known firm with headtauarZ i "Jf5 d< »'"« l branches ttaSugfc. out the Commonwealth are stated "> show a ohoitago of £2OOO. The manager has been suspended.