YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81825, 18 August 1906, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

HOME RULE. London, August 10. Mr John Dillim, JM..l'., nt a meetingat Ballaghincrnuoh, declaral the only system oi Home Rule wliicii would be satisfactory to lribiiiiiiii must give control on lines adopted in tho Transvaal. He trusted to the Government to carry out Sir Anthony Mncdonnell's promise next session. FEARFUL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Mexico, 'August 16. A cartload of dynamite expl(>ded nt Chihuahua, Mexico, killing thirty-five persons. Fragments of bodies were found a mile away. MOUNTAINEERING. Calcutta, August 16. Dr. Workman and his wife ascended a mountain at Kashmir to an altitude of 23,000 ft. ANTHRAX AMONGST ELEPHANTS. London, August 16. The Daily Express reports that anthrax killed two hundred and fifty Government elephants a t Bunn*

. FRENCH CHURCH AND STATE. ; Paris, August 16. Members of the Moderate Party in France anticipated the ultimate establishment of a modus vivendi bc■twerai Church and State, THE NATAL RISING. PJctermaritzburg, August 16. Colonel Mackenzie, at a banqu»t at Howieh, Natal, trav«rsod events in connection with the Zulu rebellion. Ho declared it was a critical time and that a single reverse would mean a general rising throughout the Colony. HOLLAND AND TRANSVAAL. Amsterdam, August 16. The Dutch Government has withdrawn the bill under which it was proposed to establish a Consulate nt Johannesburg. AMERICA AND ARGENTINA. Buenos Ayres, August 16. The Hon Elihu Root .(United States Secretary for State), speaking 'at Buiuos Ayr*, described the condition of affairs in Argentina « s justifying America's faith in free government,

BOERS WARNED AGAINST ARGENTINE. Capetown, August 16. The Transvaal Government has issued a warning to " intending emigrants to the Argentine. Many Boers have returned thence, and others arcs endeavouring to raise the fare homo. A WIDESPREAD STRIKE. Calcutta, August 10. A widespread strike is in progress on the East Indian railway at Calcuttu, the natives demanding the same salaries as Europeans. Other labour disturbances are reported. As the result of an organised agitation five hundred postmen struck at Bombay for an increase of wages. The service ia paralysed. CRICKET. London, August lfi. The cricket match Jlkkllosex versus Yorkshire resulted i" a drawn game. Ttarflsnt took 9 wickets for 57, Tarrant i§ an ex-Australian^ Sydney, August 17. Up to last night the Board of Cricket Control had received no confirmation of the report that an English team was not coming out. SPIRITS DUTIES. Sydney, August 17. The House of Representatives further modified the spirit duties, reducing excise practically to a shilling on all items, to bring them into conformity, with the reduced Customs duties. NEW GUINEA GOVERNMENT. Melbourne, August 17. In the Senate, Senator Stewart introduced a Bill to provide for the election of non-official members of the Legislative Council of New Guinea on as adult suffrage basis. PENNY POSTAGE. . Sydney, August 17. It is estimated that the number of letter* that would be affected by penny postage would be seventy-two millions. TRAMWAY INQUIRY. Sydney, August 17. At the Tramway Board inrpiiry the burden of witnesses' complaints was espionage by secret officers, who reported the most trivial mistakes, for which the men were reprimanded and punished ; also complaints as to cavalier treatment by some higher officers. They declared the regulations were so complicated that it was impossible not to make technical mistakes.

FEDERAL TROOI'S' ENCAMPMENT. Sydney, August 17. The military authentic.-; jjrojkpsn a Federal Easti-r I'lK-ampiiK-'ut o! 10,0! H) troops at Alb.ury. FREE EDUCATION. Sydney, August 17. In tho Assembly, during discussion on the Fnii E-dm/ation Bill, it wa* stated that education at present cost 10/:*► per h**ad of population mid that under the free scheme it would' cost 11/3. THE CRIMPIXG ABUSE. Sydney, August 17. Th« Assembly, on a motion for adjournment . discussed (he question ol '•rimpinir at 31 r O'Sullivan made some startling statements. Ilr Jwlnml that iUyfivo per centum of the boarding houses in Newcastle were rriinpiiif ilens, and that masters <>! ocean-go-ing steamm were in league witli agents ashore._ Men were ehirayhaicd and robbed wholesale. ; Other memljers supported Mr O'Sul livan's allegations. [ Tho Premier admitted that gross abuses prevailed. The Imperial Go vernment had protested ugainst th« abuses prevailing / at Sydney nru | Newcastle, and tho State Government was considering a scheme to over cow*, tho abuses, but it would not bi judicious to give details at present. THE TORREXS TRACEDV. Adelaide, August 17. At an inquest on the body of 'M'ri ' Vntolla, the evidence was to iheelTeC! that on Sunday her husband threat '' <ncd h-r. TTe had a big row with 111; £ wife, who had been out for a drive > because she did not keen a promiPi ** to return to tea. TVlien she canv {home they upbraided each other. Na e tella a servant out, and wher a she returned at ten o'clock the housi e was locked up. Mr* Nat ell a was atrain seen. The medical evidence pointed t< it strangling. e A verdict bf wilful murHcr agfttns Netella was rptmnod,