TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 187, 27 January 1904, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

A Martyr to Soienoe. Telgrapb Pros. Association Oopywright Keoeived January 27, 8.62 a.m. St Petersburg, January 26. The Director of the laboratory at Fort Alexander, Kronstadt, after experimenting ' with living plague cultures, died of the plague. Two assistants were also attacked. Attempted Murder. St Petersburg, January 26. Three shots were fired at Baron Korff, Governor of Lomza, in Russian Poland. One traversed his cap. His assailants escaped. i Tragic Ending of a Trial. London, Jan 26. The trial of Whittaker Wright ended taagically. He was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to seven years. Immediately after leaving the court he died of heart failure. 300 Deaths Weekly in New York. . New York, January 26. Upwards of 800 deaths aro occurring weekly in New York from pneumonia. Pittsburg Rivers Subsiding. New York, Jan. 26. The rivers in the Pittsburg district are subsiding. Drink and Fires. Chribtiania, January 26. Two drunken labourers caused the Yalesund fire. Desperate Fighting at San Domingo. New York, January 26. A sanguinary engagement is reported between tbe Government and rebel forces at Losllanos, San Domingo. General Celstein, Minister for War, was amongst those killed. Officials Committed for Trial. New Yo. k, January 26.

The Coroner's jury committed for trial the Mayor of Chicago, Davies the proprietor of the Iroquois theatre, two building inspectors, the firemen employed at the Iroquois, two stage hands and the chief of the Chicago Fire Department whose responsibility will be investigated by the Grand Jury. Reciprocal Dealings in Metal Industries. London, January 26. Pittsburg advices state that reciprocal arrangement has been made for the Welsh tin plate makers to buy steel trust's billets in return for tbe trust's subordinate tin plate oompany not exporting tin plate to Britain. Booming Cotton Stooks. New York, January 26. Continental buyer, of cotton are operating largely in Liverpool, and raised the spot price to Bd, the highest for 80 years. At New York prices advanced 40 points. Decline in Shipbuilding. London, January 26. Lloyd's registers show that 632 mercantile steamers, aggregating 1,165,503 tons, and 66 sailing vessels of 26,115 tons, were launched in the United Kingdom last year — the lowest output since 1897— while 549 steamer., aggregating 708,205 tons, and 404 sailing vessels, of 156,908 tons, were built abroad, chiefly in the United States and Germany.

More Murders by Natives in Nigeria London, January 26. In connection with the recent rising in Northern Nigeria, the Okpoto tribesmen killed, besides Captain Riordan, British Resident ■ at Bassa, and Captain Burney, Superintendent of Police, 87 of their escort. . Oil Fuel for Warships London, November 26. The new battleship Hibernia will be fitted with storage for oil fuel. A Plague Suspect. Melbourne, This Day. The Moeraki's Tasmanian passenger brought to Melbourne will not be permitted to enter Tasmania until about a week hence. ■ Tenders for Oaten Hay. I ■ Melbourne. This Day. The Agent General is asking quotations for 1200 tons of Australian oaten hay delivered at Port Elizabeth and Durban. N.S.W. Labor Platform. Sydney, This Day. The Labor Conference resolved to make financial reform the first plank of their fighting platforms. Suoh reform includes a cessation of borrowing except for redemptions and ooinpleting publio works to which tbe country is already committed, and undertakings whioh will pay interest from the beginning and one per oent sinking fund. Other resoj lv tions favored the special taxation | of absentees' incomes, graduated land j value tax with a minimum of three penoe, and the nationalisation of privato monopolies.