VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 286, 7 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

- ■ - -*~ - ■ THE WODONGA INCIDENT, MELBOURNE, Dec. 6, - The Government has appointed a board to Inlqjulre into the alleged firing on the steamer Wodoß**, j while the vessel was passing WU> Uanjstown Forts on her way £ron» Melbourne to Adelaide. THE FREMANTLE FIRE. FREMANTLE, Deo. 0. The origin of uhe fire at Hartif, Scaafe oiwl Company's is a my»* tery. The insurances are distributed aver a, large number of.office*, and total £44,000. MUTINOUS RUSSIAN SEAMEN ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 5. A number of sailors at Sevastopol", mutinied owing to the clot- . img of disondorly houses and taverns, SoMievs suppressed Uw mutiny. EASTERN MAIL SERVICES. (Received Dec. 6, 0.31 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. J Commercial men anticipate a ttw porary disorganisation of mail and "~ r maritime soVvlces when the Baltic; Fleet arrives in the East. WORK FOR THE "WORKLESS.. LONDON, Dee. 8. Mr Hcijbert Gladstone, speaking! at Leeds, declared that it was the duty'of the Government' to provide work for the unemployed. VICTORIAN BUTTER COMMISSION (Reccaived Dec. 6, 10.34 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dm. 6. - At the Butter Commission the examination of Mr Tavemau' (Agent* General) was concluded. He o»te* gorlcally denied Mr Sinclair's chai* ges, and considered he had produced sufficient documentary evidence to support his denials. In a numt ber of cases the commission woUld ""> find, on Mn Sinclair's own letters, that the letter had home false wit- ft noes against him (Tavnrner). The j. witness denied that he had ever had < 1 the slightest personal intorest in '', any meat or produce shipped through the Agricultural Department whilehe was Minister. (Received Dec. 7, 0.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 6. r Mr Taveraier said ho was appoint- "* cd the Victorian representative of the Colonial Consignment Company,'. ' by Sir Montague Nelson while a member of the Turner Government. He took the appointment on the und.rslandlng that he would retire j from the Ministry. While still » \ r , Minister he asked the Harbour Trust ',' Commissioners whether they would <' put a site for cool storage works under olfer to him for throe months* • This was to enable Sir Joseph) Ward, as a of th» oipnny, to write to London about a. * suggestion for cool stores. ,>- * EXTENSIVE FIRES'. MELBOURNE. Dec. «.' Destructive bush fires, are raging;> . in the Echuca district, and a large acreage of wheat and grass hasbewk ruined. -s NEW ZEALAND LOAN. (.Rscetvad. Dec.. 6,11.19 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. t. The New Zealand loom is quot«(t at I per cent, premium. GERMANY ANDABYSBINIA. '"' BERLIN, Dec. 6. The German Foreign OfHce Is Bending an important mission to Abyssinia, to open up commercial relations, Councillor Roso commands. AMERICA AND TARIFF REFORM, k'j NEW YORK, Dec. fl. The New York Herald, states that - : ' tihw members of both Housn palled un.avournMy, Sxi «*, proportion ot ■ 4 7« to 82, on the tariff revision ' question, ..'..' NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. (Received Dec. 7, 0.25 a,m.) , „ flYDNEy.Oebio, '■ ' n*i Stamp Duties Bill was takea through committee i n the Assembly, ' .which made some merely verbal amendments in it. The Council considers the bill to-mov-row. ILLNESS OF THE DUCHESS ' ' d'AOSTA. ; (Heoeived Dec. 7, 0.25 a m > " n LONDON, Dec. 6\ Duchess d Aosta has railled from a wvwe attack of pneumonia. * ' ihe Queen of Portugal is hasten- ■ mg from to Turin but ' King Carlos remains, at iluckln-. _., Urn Palace, though ho has poetpon- ;i edhs vtart to Wclbeck (the dX , of Portland's seat), ■ (Prince Emanuele of Savoy Dulx d Aosta, is a cousin of the Kinr, 2 '- italy and was mode a Royal h JJL of the Gartet- by King EA<r»*rl& .' in July. 11)02.) **"* Vn - A HOt"tj- me (HewivedDee 7> I>6 ~.„,., A hj„ . ." SfDNEY, Kc. 0:. m «-** over, temperatures Bomo VO ' T w « n ' Z™ in * ftra '"""led. At Gooaoowa 111, were ,^ |Um(| , . PRF:s'FjHence TO UNIONISTS., j* MELBOURNE, Dec. 6. •> Aftr* a protracted stonewall tbV m H'* negatived Mr Watson's am- ' cn*u»nt to the Ai'lnirutlon IHtt ' ■ 'Wowing „j, on non-unionists the " oi'Js at proving that the appll"wts for plvferonco did not renre- ' '*nt the majority. GENERAL NEWS EPITOME. A picture by Romnoy sold for 6500 » guineas. It was purchased a tew years ago at a country salo for twenty shillings. r fum. S S t l tt , Manßl ° n Hou " luiw, *,] 5,000 has been privately M subscribed in London towan , s OM, J * scheme for the ivlief of the uoomployed. Joseph Fee, a p i(r hMt cher, hn» * . been convicted on « third trial and . sentenced to death «t Belfast, Ireland, for murdering John Flanama. a produce dealer, at Clones. Bush fires swept large areas in i tho Tnmworth and Gumiedah JVew South Wales) districts. Much il'ani. age Ims bean done to crops and Wc-'' ' l ing. The New South Wales Postma«(,ir " ' proposes to make a reciprocal „!' rangoment to allow' pictorial »ZL ' cards, with a correspondence "ZZ t.on oiid addre.ss side, to ££, through at a cost of a penny