MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 65, 10 March 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PHU PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Losdon, March 7, i The Weslade collision occurred in a i fog. The coolness and discipline of the crew averted a panic. Two lives were lest. The boiler exploded after the passengers were transhipped. The terms of the Sugsr Convention provide that the last five yeirs' surtax is to have a maximum of six francs on refined and francs on other sorts of sugar. Britain does cot discriminate between colonial sugars and those produced by contracting States. The ratification of the Convention by the Parliaments of France, Hungary, and Germany is uncertain. New Yoek, March 7. Prince Henry is suffering from the strain of the prolonged travelling through America. Crowds of roughs at wayside stations knock ao the windows of his car in the middle of the night and arouse the Prince and demand a speech. Received 9, 4.45 p. m , London, March 8. Great Britain, Prance, Russia, and Italy have presented a joint note to the Turkish Government p'Otestiog against the hindrances and harassing conditions placed in the way of Cretans in their personal and commarcial intercourse with Turkey. A Bill has benn introduced at Uruguay in th« Chamber p.-ovidi ,g for an annual b-juu y of .£BOOO for frr-zen ' or chilled meat fac ories, none of which are yet established. Received 10, 1.25 a.m. London, March 9. The state of Mr Cecil Rhodes' health is cusing univ rsil anxie'y. He is suffering fcoin angina peetutis.