SATURDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81860, 8 October 1906, Page 3

SATURDAY'S CABLES.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST AN EMPEROR. Saigon, October 5. Saigon newspapers assert that the Emperor of Annaui is a criminal ma* niac, and tortured to death several f his wives by vivisection. One admin that he sacrificed his mother in the cause of science by shutting her in a room with two dying plague patients. He refuses to receive ihe French Resident, who went to remonstrate. LESE MAJESTY. Berlin, October 5. A jury refused to convict Ei*»n<r, editor of Yorwarts, for l r »e maje>te, on the ground that th»* prosecutionrelied on evidence of gendarmes., who were incapable of construing the language complained of. THE POCAHONTES DISASTER New York. October 5. Sixty have been ordered for the victims of the Pocahontes ter. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. New York. October 5. The American Irish Leagu" Convention i* pledged to contribute within two years burling to assist Home Rule. THE BRUNSWICK SUCCESSION. Berl'n, October 5. Count Von Bulow. replying to Dr. Otto, a Brunswick Minister, >aid the Federal Council's decree of ISBS debars the Duk«' of Cumberland from the of the throne of Brunswick. The Pru--i;tn Government wa- unable to pr<»po*-, or repeal a decree, or a modification of ir. the Duke was silently tolerating th* Guelph party's activities, which a'm at the Crown of Hanover.

MVSTERIOL'S DISAPPKAKAXCF.S Sydney. October 6. During the vek there have hrrn nine mysterious disappearances of n reported to the polic. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN' MINISTRY. Adelaide, October 0. It believed that Mr Butler has relinquished ihe task of forming a Ministry. In that rase Mr Price will b" recalled, but will decline to do anything unle-s granted a dissolution. WEST R ALT A AM) SFX'KSSION. Ort 1 )b' r ft. i The g'ddfie'ds" <.f tbr Au-- 1 t;aban Natives' A- s '" i-Jiion ' dicu'e the The prcip'e of th'* go ! dfi'ld- fnllv *avour Federal unity. The IV-aid -arcastically rerommended thai a -upply of infam omfcrtcrs should V supplied to tlv srros-inni s ' m r mb<T- "f th* 1 The legislative Council i- dealing with the As-emblv's re«oluti«»n in a n*r. 1,~ -uop'.:'rr- haw Hie greatest diffimhv in preventing the deba'e dying of in.ini* : on.