VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 191, 13 August 1900, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[ [PER PRESS ASSOGIATION.I (Received 12, 6.40 p.m.) London, August 11. ■ Major Lothaire, manager of the Congo Free State Trading Company, who won notoriety some time ago in connection with the murder of a British trader named Stocks, has been cashiered for ill-treating natives. Several members of the Company were murdered by native?, the result, it was alleged, of terrible atrocities practised by Lothaire and other officials. The Belgian Press took the matter up and demanded an enquiry into the charges. Paris, August 11.

Valette, the Anarchist arrested for the attempt on the life of the Shab, has been discharged. Sidney, August 12.

The Government have ordered several--4-7 guns and v"ickers-Maxims. A new field battery of 15 pounders, to replace the one sent to the Cape, arrives in three weeks.

Obituary: Mr. Hugh MacNeil, a well-known Dunedin citizen.

London, August 12. The 1850 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship has been granted to Mr. Mehor, of New Zealand, to be continued for a second year. (Received 12, 7 p.m.) ' Sydney, August 11. Oswald Cullen and J. Reynold were arrested on the arrival of the Tarawera charged with stealing .£34. The money, with the exception of a pound, was recovered. The accused were remanded till the 18th. (Received 13,1.14 a.m.)

London, August 11.

Millar's Australian Cup Yacht Race at Cowes was declared off owing to lack of entries.

Mr. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, in the course of an interview, uttered a strong warning against Mr. Cecil Rhodes's scheme of introducing Chinese ta Rhodesia..