VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8004, 15 December 1905, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

AS INGENIOUS lil'HGl.Ali LOXIMiN, IV-c. 13. Cooke, » ship's fir?m»n, was sonUnced to 15 year*' |>enal servitude for bursar}' of a public iouse at Woolwich. |He 1)1 imini the landlord temporarily, liy skirting a solution of ammonia into his face. 1 BRITAIN AND GBKMAXY. HKHUX, l>ct. i;t. The newspaper Heichlmi,. a<!v,K-, v i<s Germany jivinjj llritain exceptionally favouraWe treatment ih connection with the renewal of the provisional tariff arrangvrotnts, in order to give the tariff reformers , no encouragewent at the gvneral elections. MR LYTTKI/n>.\\ LONDOX, l*c. 13. Tht Agwits-Goneral farewelled the Right Hon. A. Lytteltonlatt; Secretary for thu Colonies, on leaving office. j THE FISCAL ISSUE. LONDON, ftoc. 13. Tho Tariff Commission had published a summary iof tho | ovidence respecting the woollen (industry, but submits n<4 report. The witnesiw* are practically unanimous that the industry /is .deteriorating, and that in no Vbranch is it expanding. The liriiish are losing ground in foreign and homo markets, hands Jare d<> creasing, and the valuu of mill proli'rlv is depreciating, I ami unless remedies are spewhly suggvsli>d. the decline, which has already reached gro.it dimensions, must soon become marked. A MVSTDIUors UKATII. SyiiXKV, fVe. Lt. According to a fallow stowaway, the China-man whose li'Hlv wa> found in the h.'iri'our \rith a rop,' attached to tho nick was too sick to get ashore, ainl demanded the return o! the nniiiey p,*id Irt enable him td stowaway which the I'hin.'sp portion cf the Aiil.e'n ir.u bad receivi-d. The la!ivr ili-cli'iied to refund. and threw him into the harbour- The police, however, favo'ir th# ih inv i<suicide.