YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8182, 15 August 1906, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

I RUSSIAN DISORDERS. St. Petersburg, Augug't 13. During tlio past fortnight fifty-three , people wore! murdered and forty-one wounded at Warsaw. Two Gcnnan factory owners were murdered at Lodz. Paris, August 13. Tho Palis Temps sarcastically summarises M. Stolypine's measures as follows :—Tli... suppression of all Liberal newspapers, the imprisonment of 20S persons in five days, the expulsion and deportation of 100, and instructions to provincial Governors to provide servile candidates to the Douma.

THE SULTAN'S ILLNESS. Constantinople, August 13. The .Sultan's illness is closely watched at Solia (the capital of Bulgaria). Professor Bergniaim is attending the Sultan, who is suffering from longstanding Bright's disease.

EOYAL CONFERENCES. Berlin, August 13. Germany is l -greatly interested in King Edward's meeting with the Kaiser nt Kronberg on Wednesday, especially 'because last year ho avoided a visit, London, August 13. The Pall Mall Gazette states that a meeting will follow the Czar's re-quest for King Edward's-advice on tho situation in Russia.

PERSIA. ■ London, August 1.1. The Morning Post, commenting on tho Shah's Parliament, nsl<s whether the infection of the Russian struggle will move from Teheran to the Bosphorus. Paris, August 13. The Creuzot Artillery works have contracted to deliver to the Shah's order in November fifteen batteries of fieldpieces and 5000 rillos..

PHILLIPINE DISORDERS. Manila, August 13. Some Pulagne natives, on the island of Lcytc, in tlm Philippines, overwhelmingly ambushed a small American military party, consisting of Lieutenant Jinnies and ten infantrymen. They killed James Kind six men, and wounded iho remaining five.

! CRETAN AFFAIKS, Berlin, August 13, Tho Cologne Gazette reports that Germany'has protested against the Powers' proposal to exton'rt the authority of the international financial control of Athens to tho fmances of Crete, on the ground that such a step would endanger the status tfuo tuid constitute a step towards union with Greece.

THE TOWNSEND CASE, London, August 13. The Marquis of Townshend, in a letter to the newspapers, showing that ho still believes in .Sutherst, state's that he was fully aware before he married the daughter of Sutherst that tho latter was a bankrupt. Sutherst ha.s supported ihe Marquis and his wife ever since their murriage.

CHINESE PIRATES. Pekin, August 13. A band of Chinese pirate's tit "\Vueliau 'aMucked a British launch, and killed one mid wounded three, of t'Uo occupants. They also stole £75.

ALGERIAN TROUBLES. Algiers, August 13. The Governor-General of Algeria has forbidd.ii ull trode between Algeria and Morocco, because the sheiks of Lgda aro obstructing French police operations on the frontier.

A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. London, August 13. Messrs Townshend, Hook and Company's paper mills, with seven cottages and two barges, at Siiodlimd, were burned, the dumage amounting to £IOO,OOO, and 150 employees being thrown out of work.

BALKAN DISORDERS, London, August 13. A Greek baud attacked the village [of Patotehin, near Vodena, and killed ten people u.nd burned ten houses.

SYDNEY TRAMWAYS DISPUTE. Sydney, August 11. The sittings of the Board of Inquiry into the. grievances of the tramway men have commenced.

CRICKET. Sydney, August 11. No reply has yet been received to the Board of Control's second cable to the Mnrylebone Cricket Club. A number of private cables, including one from Noble, have also been forwarded, urging the sending of u team.

THE AFGHAN MUEDEE. Adelaide, August 11. After her marriage Xatclla's wife went to live with another Afghan, stilting that slio had disroveml that Xntella had another wife in Ids own miintrv, tint, she recentlv returned to h.-r husband. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the de.d. The horse to tin- lnunh'rrd woman's mother. ' When it bolted it made nwav with the luurirv. Ixwint,' evidences ~f the Irai-.-dy to her hotw.

PETROLEUM IX NEW CaLKLONIA. Sydney, August 1 I. Advices have been received from Xoumca of the discovery of valuable petroleum deposits on the coast of New Caledonia. His proposed to develop the industry.

A 810 SCORE. llelliounie, August J I. In a football n.utch between Colong College and Queen's; College, St. Hilda, the former scored points to nil.

A CATERPILLAR'S TOMB. "Melbourne, August 11. A living caterpillar «». found in lie- inte.lines ~! a child who died from inlla mlion of the bowels. The doctor s(a |e,| th a t death was the result of artilicial feeding and that the. cater],iliac hud no injury.