MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 269, 13 November 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

| FIB PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London*, November 11. An Am<>rj»m name' l C-tnisns, long employed in ihp OVngn Free Sta f e, has published a narrative describing the systematic massacre of nnt'vs by officials for declining to bring in robber. The rative», he adds, a fenny i a pound for rubber, which is sold at three shil'ings a ponrd. Madame has arranged with Mr Mugrr.ve for a three months concert tour in the Australian capitals, besinnirg at the mMdl« of September. A nrssfire preceded the accident oni the Royal Sovereign, and a smoulder- j ine fraement 1-ft. behind ignited the fresh cartridge prematurely. Cap'ain Spurway was amongst the killed. Nineteen we/e injured, including Commander Arbuthnot Par's, November 11. ' The Antwerp steamer S«ghal?en was u-lotding at Marseilles, and 480 rats, which had dird of plague, were discovered in the hold. The authorities at French ports ate discussing the question of wholesale rat destruction. New Yokk, November 11. The c~s* of the rn'inifiptl adwrnistration r f New Y'rk f "r 1900 was for'y milliors sterling. This enorm-lis expecditure was due to the Tammany ; system. Received IP, 11.4 p.m. Bombay. November 12. Lird furznn is tending an influential Mnhcmmedan deputation to congratulate the r>pw Ameer of Afghanistan. I Receiver! 13, 0.14 a.m. ' London, Novembnr 12. | Obituary— S : r F-auklyn Lushington, Chifif P l're Migis'rate, London, [He has Veen a Mngis'ra' e since 1869, firft at the Thames Police Court ard t eubs'quently at Row-g'rcet."j