WARLIKE ACTIVITY CONTINUES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7872, 6 January 1904, Page 2

WARLIKE ACTIVITY CONTINUES.

Received 6. i a>m. LONDON, January $. The Czar is stated to be conferring with Count . MiiraVM, 1 , which is interpreted inyienna as .a pacific sign. M. Dekasse, French Foreign Minister, ivhc- is at present in. tlie Bivtera, is optimistic regarding the situation in the East. Russian cruisers at Vla'divbstock are proceeding to Port Arthur. ' Hon W. H. Taft, American Governor of the Philippines, has been welcomed and entertained! at Tokio. . i , , Cossacks are occupying Hsimintun and the , railway on the Newchwang line. Received 6, 1.20 a.m. ROME, January 5. j Three Italian cruisers have #been I Received 6, 1.20 a.m. ordered tc the Far Bast.