YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8036, 24 January 1906, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

A MAX MISSING. Buisiuxe, Jauunry.23, Buchanan, engineer of the new turbine steamer Binga for the Queensland coastal trade, is missing. He has been much worried over turbine machinery, ATHLETICS. London, January 22. The Amateur Athletic Association, dismissed Shrubb'sjjppeal. IShrubb was disqualified on the ground that he has become a professional.] THE SCIENCE OF MINING. London, January 22. After the Tall Vale judgment, tho Departmental Committee recommends the uniting of the Koyul Colleges of Science and Mines with the Loudon University. Mr Magnus, Superintendent of the Department of Technology, of the City and Guilds of London Institute, predicts that the new institution will be superior to any other in Europo or America.

TRAIN ACCIDENT. Bkissels, Jauuary 22. An express was derailed near Ghent. Forty-three British mail bags, containing (wo hundred thousand pounds sterling, registered values, were burnt, PANIC IN A CHURCH. New Yo iik, January 22. A cry of tire caused a panic among a coloured Baptist congregation in Philadelphia. A staircase collapsed, aud eighteen persons were killed and forty injured. SOUTH AFRICA. Cu'KToiv.v, January 22. There' is anxiety iu Johannesburg at the reported intention of the Government to alter the constitution aud give the Boers greater power. A great public meeting is threatened.

OHITUAIiV. London, Jvniucrry IK. Obituary: George Jwi Holyoalo Clmrli'i'ist, aged Hi).

(Deceased, journalist, aiulior, and lecturer, was born in Birmingham j u IHI/. Jlc was one of the,lecturers appointed to explain the rj 0( .j u [ System of Hubert Owen in 18J1- „» iu M ,r, SoUt .d at Glasgow in IS-IJ, [,„■ „,, „„„,,.„ given in discussion• W as the founder ol .Secularism; aud „as ui-tii^. awro . tary to the UrilUh legation, S ,. m ou t to ,liml ' i ' l in aiding the repeal "I t!"-' tax upon knowledge he uwurrcd Liiilil.Oilil ol' Hue, which he asked Mr Gladstone (Chancellor of tho Ex. ehoiiuer) to take weekly. Hia writings are numerous.

Jmori'. Hvuxuv, January 23. ■ Willi reference to tho case of Mb. loup, the American Consul has intervened awiiust his deportation. Diplo. uiatie negotiations are proceeding, "