Various Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

INDIAN ARMY EQUIPMENT. LONDON, Jan. 17. Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in India, at tho instance of the War Office, is trying to reequip Indian artillery by June.

NEW YORK'S LATEST NOTORIETY, NEW YORK, Jan. 17, Rousseau hns been pronounced a dangerous monomaniac. (Rousseau attempted to blow up Frederick the Great's statue. This . tatue wns presented to tho United States l>y the Emperpr of Germany, It was erected in Washington, whore the unveiKng took pjacc on November 19th. Special representatives of the Kaiser' were present, together with thte whole diplomatic corps. The wife of the German Ambassador, Baron«ss Speck .van Slernburg, unveiled tho monument. In presenting the statue the Kaiser wrote :—" Here is the figure of a great German, who belongs in part to you, and who .was intimately poncerned with a crisis of history out of which your popple emerged as a nation.'-')

IRRIGATION CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. The Irrigation Conference adopted a resolution urging the Government to carry out a comprehensive scheme for water conservation and irrigation, and that immediate steps bo taken to protect State rights over the Murray and its tributaries; The conference also resolved that private enterprise could, withi proper safeguards, carry out .Water conservation if the State could not find the money. FEDERAL MAIL SERVICE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 18. Mr Reid, Federal Premier, has stated that the Orient Company has made a further offer, at £140,000, for the conveyance of the mails, and the Government had authorised the Postmaster-GcMeral to inform the company that no offer in the •neighbourhood of its tender can be considered. In reply to a question, he aid he hott heard that tiie Union Company was thinkuig of making an offer, but he had heard nothing further about the matter. HANKING COMPANY'S REPORT. SYDNEY, Jan. 17. At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Banking Comimuy in Sydney a dividend at thd rate ol ltt per cent, was declared. A sum of £15,000 was added to reserve, and £21,000 carried forward. The chairman, referring to the decrease in the note circulation, said it was due to a shrinking in trade and diminished expenditure in wages, and also to the fact that gold was gradually displacing notes in all the States of the Commonwealth. THE WEST INDIES. LONDON, Jan. 17. Consternation has been caused in the West Indies by thb withdrawal ■of Imperial troops,, owing lo the recent decision to remove the naval base, FRENCH ANTI-CLERICAL CRUSADE. PARIS, Jan. 18. Additional religious cstablit>aments ift France were closed on the eve of Mi Combes' resignation of the Premiership. (Received Jan. 18, U. 33 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 18. Fous hundred and sixty-three additional establishments have now been closed,. TEMPERATURE IN ENGLAND. (Received Jan. 18, 9.16 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 18. The tempemture in England has suddenly, risen twenty degree^ THE VANCOUVER SERVICE, (Received Jan. 18, 10 2pm) . OTTAWA, Jaov 18. Canada is willing to volo a sut>»dy of £IO,OOO if the Australiau.vancouver steamers call nt New Zealand ports* MORE PLAUUEY HATS, (Received Jan. 16, 11.41 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 18. Addi'tionalplagucd rats lmvc been found in the vicinity of the Clarence River. One was discovered to-day on Hhe North Coast Company's wharf at Sydnejv Precautions arc being taSen. CYCLING. (Received Jan. 19, 1.6 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jao. 18. The Summer Wheel Race resulted— Lawson 1, Ellegard 2, ClnrEc 3. A splendid, race with a desperate finish, won by a foot. Time, lmin 5<J 3-5 sec. International Half Mile.—Ellegard beat Farley by a length ami a half, i Time, lmin 5 l-ssec. HAIIHIT DESTRUCTION. SYDNEY, Jon. 18. Dr. Days?., of the Pasteur Institute, recently wrote to a pastoralist describing an effective micrdbcan culture for the destruction of rabbits. The Minister for Lands has cabled to Dr. Daysz asking if he is prepard to. visit Australia to conduct a abbit destiruflDion campaign, and inquiring his terms. JERVIS HAY TARGETS. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. The Admiral reports that a search of Jervis Bay restated in the discovery of about forty pracMco proJcctifa4 and portions of others ; but no dangerous shells were (found. The space at the rear of the targets may bo considered free of '• live " sliojla. There may bo one ©r two stray shells in other parts of the bay, but ho hoped there was no possibility of a recurrence of tho rcceut accident, by .watch a boy was killed.