MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 28 September 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. New York, September 26. American millionaires' are moving to secure five great English tobacco businesses and thus to control the output. I Harvard and Yale Universities deI feited Oxford and Cambridge by six events to three at the intercolonial sports held at New York. [Similar contents were held at Qoeen's Club, Lcndoo, on July 22nd, 1899, when the Englishmen won five events out of nine.] London, September 26. A virulent smallpox outbreak has i occurred io Loudon, there being 160 1 cues report- d. The London School Board hiis reluctantly allowed ins pec- ( •ion of scholars, where parents did not • object, in order to ascertain if they had < been vaccinated. 1

A Blue Book has been issued comparing the projected German tariff with exiVing rate . The Board of Trade notifies that the proposed tariff sffec's twenty-five ou*; of twenty-eight millions of direct B: itish exports. The Daily Telegraph says the tariff is arousing opposition in nparly every industrial town of Germany. The Times says the increases are monotonously general, some 300 per cent., while decreases are almost exc- p'ional. Received 28, 1.9 a.m Paris, September 27. President Loubet visits Russia in April.