CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1667, 10 February 1904, Page 31

CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, February 7.

Mr Ait eld-Forstor, Secretary of State for War, has intimated that he intends to ask Parliament,to sancr-ion a new artillery and the placing of Great Britain in possession of a much better gun than the rest of Europe. _ There are half a million fewer Hindus lin India since 1891, and six hundred (thousand more native Christians, j ‘ Mr Justice Kennedy has decided that th-o Great Fin-gall Company'ns liable to £20,000 which Reuben and Ludenburg, stockbrokers, advanced to A.. S. Rowe, an official of the Fin-gall Company, upon a forged certificate for 5000 shares. Four women patients m the Portsmouth Lunatio Asylum died. It is feared they were poisoned by an overdose of chloral administered-• by order of a lady docior. CAPETOWN, February 7. , News from German West Africa states that after relieving Windhoek the German contingent returned to Omaruim (about. 230 milesm north of .Windhoek), where . they -found the rebells in occupation.- The Germans stormed iand recaptured - the town, loding twenty-four. They are now surrounded.

An expedition is being prepared to relieve the contingent. SYDNEY, February 8.

Daley and Knowles were acquitted of the ohafge of alleged fraud in connection with the Mount Kernbla art union. The Magistrate held that there had been nothing unlawful between the accused. Everything appeared to be honestly oarried out as far as possible. Values for sheep were very high at the Homebuslh ealets to-day. Wethers brought 21s to 275. No ewes were catalogued. The market for cattle also: showed an improving tendency. Best bullocks fetched £lO 10s to £l2 6s, good £9 10s; best cows £7 15s to £8 13s, good £6 15s. Best beef made 24s 6d per 1001 b. [ -V: .• . ' ■ ii’tycm-lfi'i