VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 297, 20 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

HUNGARIAN DIET. (Received Doc. 19, (9-42 p.m.) VIENNA, Dec. 19. Tlic Hungarian Diet will be dlv solved in January. labour and preference. LONDON. Dec. ID. Senator Stewart, writing to Mr Ramsay Macdonald, stated that Mr Watson's views on preferential trade . are purely personal. The labour party in Austtailia has taken no action. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY NEW YORK, Doc. 18. * The I)e Forest Company hag established an etherigraph service from Kansas City to Cleveland, a dl»tanco of eight hundred miles. ROMANCE OF THE CAROLINE, LONDON, Doc. 18. Warrants have been issued against Roche and Sinmett, in connection with their alleged agency in securing the turlbine torpedo boat i. Carolirie from Yarrow's yards aui delivering the vessel at Libau.

MORE SUBMARINES. LONDON, Dec. 18. The Admiralty has ordered from Vickers, Son and Maxim ten additional B1 class submarines. THE JAPANESE HARVEST. LONDON, Doc, 18. The commercial agent in the East reports that the Japanese harvest is the best in the history of the country. ORIENT PACIFIC COMPANY. (Received Dec. 20, 1.1 a.U>.) 1 SYDNEY, Dec. 19. The Orient Company's Sydney no advices regarding the; reports! proposed changes. I MINOR AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. -J ! SYDNEY, Dec. 19. ,;/J There have been further good wide-, spread raonsoonal rains. >% Through a storm at Maitlaiid several buildings were unroofed, and much damage done to the orchards. BRISBANE, Dec. 10. Parliament has prorogued. A special session will be held in January . __ 10 deal with the Franchise Bill. Useful mooßoonal rains have (alt- 1 len over a large .portion of the Stats. . '