CABLE NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 303, 24 March 1903, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION. (By Eleotric Telegraph— Copyright.) London, March 23. Beater states that the Spanish Minister of War, General Linares, ia asking for an increase of fifteen million pesetas (L6oo.ooo)fortlie War Budget. There are numerous reports of murder in thf) vilayet of Monastir (TurkiahMacodonia), where a state of siege is imminent. An English syndicate has made the Greek Government an offer for the monopoly of the current trade. Public opinion in Athens is favorable to the proposal. Afire of Chicago brokers is suing JVhitaker Wright, arrested in New York in connection with the alleged London and Globe frauds, to recover L4OO brokerage incurred when be resided in Philadelphia. The action may delay his extradition. The Denaby strike is ended. The miners' meeting unanimously decided to resume work. There is intense satisfaction throughout the districts affected. An Italian engineer claims to have discovered means of telegraphing and telephoning simultaneously on the same wire. M. Galimberti, Post-master-General, is arranging experiments. The German Admiralty has decided to try turbine torpedo boats. The Daily Mail says that the weakness of the New South Wales issues is j due to the. fear that the Government i is meeting the interest on loans out of the recent issue of bills. Fiola, leader of Ziegler's Arctic expedition, is preparing to start from Tiomsoe in June. He will take two years' provisions. Sydney, March 23. „