YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8179, 11 August 1906, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

A CARDINAL ASSAULTED. Rome, August 9. A youth whoso family fortune hod gone to the Propaganda, entered the Vatican during a public audience, and asked Cardinal Yol.e for assistance. On being refused, he boxed Cardinal Volpe's ears, MUNROEISM. New York, August 9. The Hon. Elihu Root, American Secretary for State, in a speech at Santos, said that in tho near future Brazil and the United States, acting together, would form a single eternal guarantee for tho intcgri y of America. THE MCBRIDE DIVORCE. Paris, August 9. [ A divorce was not granted the Mcßridcs, un the ground that they are Irish, and Irish Catholics, which dkl not permit divorce, and the fact that the husband's domicile was in Ireland, i

MILWAUKEE BANK FAILURE. New York, August 9, Theodore Stensland offers to hand all hfi» father's real estate and personal property to the Official Receiver. It is believed tb« <lopo9itors in the Milwaukee Bank will bo paid in full. (Stensland pero left hurriedly, but his son Theodore was arrested. In the Bank vaults was found much bogus paper money.)

JEWISH COLONY IN AUSTRALIA London, August 9. Dr. Arthur, of the New South Wales Immigration League, ma letter to the Jewish Chronicle, mrggwts tho establishment of a Jewish colony in Australia, preferentially in the.Northern Territory. NEWFOUNDLAND AND CHINESE London, August 9. In ord»-r to prevent tho importation of Chinese for the mines, Newfoundland is enforcing a poll-tax of £6O. A similar tax of £IOO in British Columbia is causing a groat scarcity of unskilled labour, and sahnon canners are petitioning for a reduction of the araount.

HEAT WAVE IN ENCLAND. London, August 9. A great heat in Lancashire incapacitated thousands of mill hands, chiefly women.

BRITISH TRADE. London, August 9. The Board of Trade returns for July show that imports increased by £3.867,836 and exports by £5,621,901. LORD MILNERS ADDRESS. London.Augusl 9. The British signatures to Lord Hilner's address numbor<d 307,000. STATE AND FEDERAL POLITICS. Sydney, August 10. The Assembly has fixed the salary of the Chief Con.missioner of Railways at £3OOO, and of bis assistants at £I3OO each.

Melbourne. August 10.

The Hon. T.Bent (State Premier), in a speech, characterised Messrs Deakin. Reid, and Watson as socialists of the worst order. Tiny were just trying to belittle the States and injure them financially by getting hold of financial sections of the Constitution. The Federal Government had made promises to the States which had never b«cn kept. Personally, ho could fix up the financial matter m twenty-four hours. '

ANTI-CAMBLINC LEGISLATION. Melbourne, 1 August 10. The Gambling Bill to be introduced next week ia very drastic. Tote shops will bo quarantined and every person entering will be liable to a fine. Amy person can bring a case before a Supreme Court Judge, and if he can prove, ex parte, that reasonable grounds exist for believing a building is used for gambling purposes, the occupier may be called on to prove to the contraryMelbourne, August 10. Betting Will be declared an illegal, though not necessarily, a punishable offence, but betting debts will not be recoverable at law. Probably betting will not be prohibited on a Racecourse or in a private house, but will lie everywhere else. Hero will be a beavy fine for the first offence and imprisonment for the second.

NATAL INCOME TAX BILL BEJECTED.

Pdetcrmaritzburg, Aueust 9. The Natal Legislative Council, by 7 to 2, rejected the Government's Income Tax Bill, which the Assembly had previously adapted by a large majority, THE UNIFICATION PROPOSAL. London, August 9. Reuter states that the elections in Natal will be held in September. Mr Moor. Leader of the Opposition, has consulted Louis Botha regarding the unification prnpnsul, but it is understood the Boers will resist any amalgamation unless there are included Natal, the Transvaal and Orangin.

Melbourne, August 10. The hnmlicapper explains that the club officials furnished him with the pedigree of the liippsland horse Chivalrv. He has now amended the New Z-alander's weiirlit to *.ll, but the owner contends that the w.-iirht cannot be altered. However, he will abide by tlw committee's decision, nl though be considers "Ul more than a fair share.