VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

COTTON MARKET EXCITED. LONDON, Dec.G. The American bumper cotton crop Ims cuiuu.il scenes of wild excitoment in Liverpool. The market full forty points. REFUGE OF THE WOULD. U>ND(>.\, Dec. «. There are a thousand Russian Jewish deserters in the East Eud, Ijondon, dependent on their co-rell-gionisits, NEW ZEALAND AND HOME MARKETS. (Received Dec. 7, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, Doc. 6. At a meeting of the Cold Storage ami Ice Association Mr Cameron, New Zealand I'roduce Coiumissioner, read n impur on New Zealand's growing imports. He said that New Ziealand, as a producer, did not threaten the 1 Ilritish agriculturalist. The introduction of colonial meat did not curtail the use nor lower the prices of the Homo grown article ; but it extended the consumption by enabling the poor to obtain n sufficiently sound and wholesome food.

THE PEARSON COMBINE. LONDON, Dec. 7. Mr 0, Arthur Pearson has floated a company to control the Standard and St. James' Gazette, with a capital of £350,000.

FEDERAL ARBITRATION BILI/, (Received Dec. 8, 1.2 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. The House, on the motion of Mr Reid, Pranier, disagreed with the Senate's omission of the proviso in the Arbitration Bill that preference is only to he given to unionists it an application is supported by a majority of those affected by the [award. This watf carried by 83 votes to 29.

A CRISIS AVERTED. SYDNEY, Dec. 7. The threatened crisis on the Stamp Duties Hill has been averted, the Council passing Uio measure without amendment. Sir William JlcLaurin declared that the Assembly had amended the bill Ji;»t as the Council wanted it. * 'l*6 Government appoints a Royal Commission to inquire into the long delayed question of disputed payments to South African contingent* LATE SHIPPING. Sydney, Dec. 7.-Salled, ICokola Tor Wellington, at 2.40 p.m Melbourne Dec. 7,-Sailea, Mon<* wai, for Bluff.