YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8181, 14 August 1906, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

RUSSIA'S GAOL POPULATION. St. Petersburg, August 12. The Russian prisons in many places are full. Trains to Siberia arc packed with convicts, tried and untried. CHINESE REPATRIATION. Johaini<*burg, August 12. Two hundred Chinese on the Rand have uppliod for repatriation under tint first notice awl three hundred and seventy under the second. JAPANESE POACHERS. Tol.io, August 12. Japan does not protest to America in regard to tho shooting of Japanese seal fishers. (Japanese poachers were caught at Tu Island, Alaska. Fivo were shot and twelve arrested.) HINDO LABOR FOR COLUMBIA Ottawa, Augustj 12. British Columbia proposes to import Hindoos to relieve the labour difficulty, (A tax of £IOO is causing a great scarcity of unskilled labour, and we were recently toH that salmon-can-ners were petitioning for a reduction of the amount.) COOLIES FOR PANAMA CANAL. New York, August 12. The Panama Canal Company is engaging 2500 Chinese coolies, A BRAZILIAN REVOLT. Rio de Janeiro, August 12. The police at Sergipe, Brazil, revolted and attacked the Governor'-a palace. F'RISCO RECONSTRUCTION. New York, August 12. Fifty thousand are still living in tents in San Francisco. The erection of business premises is monopolisms; attention, no skilled or other labour, being available for house construction. THE SIEIO DISASTEE. London, Aug. 12. •Additional survivors of the Sirio have been landed. It is officially shited that 003 were saved, and that 219 ore missing. The catastrophe was due to approaching too near the coast in order to embark boat loads of emigrants who were evading the authorities, an 1 many ol whom were escaping military service. THE PORTUGUESE NATAL MUTINY. Lisbon, August 12. The seamen of the Dom Carlos and other ships of the Portuguese navy, who are awaiting trial at Lisbon for mutiny, belonged to the Black Cross Secret Society, which is supposed to be revolutionary, and the ramifications are said to be very widespread u mongst the men of the licet. (Some weeks ago the seamen of the Dom Carlos and other warships refused duty and generally conducted themselves in a mutinous manner.) PREFERENCE WITH AUSTRALIA. I Adelaide, August 13. . Sir W. I.yne (Federal Treasurer), addressing a large gathering, si'id he ho|>etl tho preference treaty with New Zealand would l>e made known before the end of the month. He advocated a general land tax for the whole of Australia for Central Government purposes. It was impossible for four million people to stand the tax of six Parliaments, six Governors, and all the machinery of Government. ! RACEHORSES INJURED. Melbourne, August 13. Corinthus broke his back through falling in the Steeplechase and was destroyed. Several others, including licllis, were slightly injured.