GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8082, 11 April 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

• London, April 9. The Salvationists' self-denial week realised £72,731. St. Peteesui-rg, April 9. The Czar sent a friendly telegram to the Dalai Lama, declaring that the latter was the high priest of the Bussian Buddhists. Tlie publication of the telegram is considered in St. Petersburg to have been ill-timed, now that British money is required for a loan, owing to Germany refusing to provide money, and that be=ides, for higher reasons, it is inopportune. Madrid, April 9. The delegates at the Algeciras Conference have signed the convention. America and Sweden made reservations declining responsibility in regard to any ultimate measures for enforceliunt of the agreement. Sydney, April 10.

At Wirth's Circus a young lioness attacked Captain Burrows, the trainer, in the cage, and lacerated his leg. She had to be shot to enable hmi to escape. In the Queanbcvan bye-election, Colonel Byne (Ministerial) is leading Mr Hungerford (Labor) by Gt votes. There is only one return to come, and that cannot altor the result, The High Court has decided that a State cannot levy stamp duty from the Commonwealth on land purchased for Government purposes. It is not probable that the Cabinet will take any action in connection with the JUilway Commission report till after the Premiers' Conference. Whatever is done will have to be under the terms of the Railway Act, and be submitted for the approval of Parliament, which will nut meet for at least six weeks.

The Might Hon. U. H. Heid, speaking at Dubbo, said if Mr Deakin would join him in a broad alliance against Socialism, they might eome to terms. 11l this crisis they must fight against Socialism, whatever their fiscal vie«s. He proclaimed a fiscal peace. Mblboukxk, April 10. The butter trade is exercised over u consignment received by a local firm from Queensland. The boxes outside are marked with a Queensland fictory brand and the Government stamp, but inside the brand is that of a well-known Victorian factory. The suggestion is that the consignment was intended for some other market and was sent to Melbourne by mistake.