YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8045, 6 February 1906, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

BRITISH rXKMI'LOYED. Loxiiox, February t. Lady Strathcoua has given ten thousand guineas to the unemployed fund, with a stipulation that t'.iono shall be devoted to the emigration of deserving workers to Canada. [Lady Strathcoua is wife of Lord StiMlhcuiia, High Commissioner for Canada. Lord Strathcoua made his money as a merchant in Canada.] A LIBF.HAL LIBERAL. Lonuox, February '• Sir Iv.hvard Grey, the new Secretary for Foreign All'iirs, b is generously returned the Metropolitan Water Board £3OOO, being a portion of his fees as arbitrator under the Act of TKO2.

GKIiMAN NA\T. Ukrmn. February 1. A great shipbuilding yard will shortly be established al Lulled;, Germany. The Navy I,eng.ic has mailt- a frenzied appeal to the people to support the voting for a big navy increase, pointing out that the bigger the flccL the greater the workman's certainly of daily bread.

THE LATE K'fNG CIIRISTf.V.V Copeniiaukx, February I. Queen Alexam'raol' England, daughter of the late King Christian, has arrived at Copenhagen. AUSTRALIA. LoMmjn, February I, Mr Coghlau (New South Wales Agent General), in a letter to the " Times," denies suggesting that prejudice arising from the Chinese (pies, lion had mlluenced immigration to Australia, lie had merely ciled prejudice as one of the factors allVcting the price of Australian securities in London, and reilerated the complaint against the altitude of "The Times" in respect to Australian financial correspondents.

.I A PAN, Tokio, February I. The Constitutional l'arly ill the Japanese Diet-support a Hill lo convert the war taxes inlo a permanent impost. A majority is assumed fur the