SATURDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81826, 20 August 1906, Page 2

SATURDAY'S CABLES.

RUSSIAN DISORI)EBS, London, August 17. lleutcr reports that at a given signnl every policeman in 'the streets of Ploek was inumfcrod.. St. Petersburg, August 17. Two hundred and ten members of tho militant section of the Social Revolutionaries h a ve been arrested in St. Petersburg and Moscow within throe days. | tireat disorders have occurred at tho Butyrik prison. Troops fired, killing two and wounding ton persons. St. Petersburg, August 17. Many bomb factories have been discovered nt Kazan. Many students in the Teolmical Col' lege have been arrested. No Cossacks are attending the military manoeuvres at Tsarskoe Selo 4 all being engaged in police work.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE SCHEME. London, August 17. Sir Jotrn Oockbum (late Agent-G<m< eral for South Australia), in an interview, supported Captain Cresswell's views in favour of am Australian flotilla to supplement the Imperial fleet. The question would ba one of the 'deepest importance fifteen or twenty years (hence, when the naval development of tho rival nations had further advanced. Sir John Coekburn omphasisod tihe rocent animinncenneiit of a roduation in thfl strength of the navy and urged that the Empire should profit from tlra power of initiative arid inwaftion wherever found within the Empire. Hud only the Motherland's regiments, existed in Australia there woulld have been no Australian contingents in South Africa, and this analogy., applied in regard to the sea.

PRINCE RANJITSINGHI. 7 Calcutta, August 17. The Jam of (Navanagar, whose fa* thcr adopted Prince Ranjits'mhji (th» well-known cricketer), died without an heir. There is a possibility of Rangi sucoeeding him.

ENGLAND'S APPLE CROP, London, August 17. T'ho English apple prospects aro best for many seasons. <

THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL. Brussels, August 17. - The Liberal press of Belgium criticises the Pope's Encyclical as impolitic, and likely in the long run toi do more harm than. good. Paris, August 17. M. Combes, fix-Premier of Frajfce, considers the Encyclioal the deathknell of the Roman Catholio Church in France,. i : M. Briand, Minister for Public Wor-, ship, declares the law will have the last word. Other Ministers declare against any, concessions being granted,

NEW JAPANESE AMBABSADOB| London, August 17,. Baron Komura, recently appointed Japanese Minister, has arrived in London, , ■

NEGRO LYNCHED. New York, August 17/ ■A negro was lynched n't Greenwood, vSouth Carolina for assaulting a white woman. The Governor's appeal to tho mob to desist emMl in shooting l instead of burning.

a warning. Capetown, August 17. The Cape Government has issued a warning to skilled workmen not to ue to the colony, the supply bor ing fully equal to the xlnmarrcl.

EXPERT FORGERS, London, August 17. All American gang is passing many; wonderfully forged batik notes in the West End of London. Tho forgery, was only discovered when tho notes' were presented at the bank.

EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA. Buenos Ayres, August 17. ,„d n i?i rll l! C| V ake interruptcd tho telegraphs. London, August 17< ' An eart%mk Q was felt at V a )pat- + aiso, r Telegrams, winch Jack official confirmation, •describe very serious out* breaks of fire through the shock. IA r later account lias minimised tihte estimate of the •damage, THE CRIMPING ALLEGATIONS. s Sydney, August 18. bdnpping mnstors, police, and ship- >. ping companies deny that crimping cxn ists to any extent a t Newcastle, and characterise tho statmierrts mode in Parliament as wild. DEATH TO BUNNY. " Sydney, August 18. Preliminary experiments now I proceeding have demonstrated that Dr.Dnnysz's virus -is effective against the rabbit. NEW SAVAII VOLCANO. ? , r . . Sjidney, August 18. 1 J. he Missionary yacht John iWilliams. " .Samoa, reports a now voloano uK oavau. It is a magnificent sight, and the volcano is still cmittuig dense volumes of smoke, and there are columns of steam wh-oro the laTa comes in contact with the sea. - VICTORIAN LOANS. • , Melbourne, August 18. I'ho Assembly the I'W Milli ion Loan Bfldamption Bill. Mi' Bent, Premier, explainld tjlfef tho importance of the measure lay 'ill tho I fact that the Government would havg power to pay tjiis money in Melbourne. It was an fljwn socret that they would itavo no difficulty ia raisi »>g the loan. A DARING ROBBERY. Melbourne, August IS. '"anrahn, a ]mblican at North Pitzro.v > received XIOO in payment for jjroperty. Ho placed ilre Irianoy under his pillow, but, during 'h.i night two men entered ami ihel-d Tlattirahn in 'lhv!, a-b----sti'ncted tlic money, osonped witii tilie 'booty. PLAGUE ABATING. " ' ~~ Sydaey, August 18. Ino Board of Health's advices from India show that plague (has considerably abated, and t'lmt in place of tens of thbusaiids of deaths weekly, the total has ftvllcn to a few hundred. COAL MINING TROUBLE. Sydney, August 18. A" conference of tho northern coalowners and miners' representatives was held to J day to discuss the minors' demand for mi increase in tho hewing rate, in connection with which trouble is aaain threatened.