MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 24 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PEE PBEBS ASSOCIATION. I London, April 22. ' The datuige by th« jew ins-street fire is istimated at £2.000,000. Tho of Pacna has bfen deposed and Gonfined for poisoning his uncle, tbe late Rajah, Lord Curzon will nominate his succesfor. King Edward held a numerously ' attended 1. v*e at S f .. James's Palace. A number of colonial visitors in Lon--1 don attended and several colonial offi- , cers were presented to the King. St. Pjtebsbuhg, April 22. | Russia is watching Ishak Kban at Samarkand in order to prevent an inroad into Afghanistaß. Peasmts d stroyed tho Duke if Mecklenburg's chateau at Poltava. Many of the provinces south of Moscow are in a state of turmoil. The Hague, April 22. Queen Wilhelmina is making satisfactory progress, and the impression is growing that a regency will be uc necessary.

London, April 22. Queen Alexandra has started homewards from a visit to Copenhagen. Keceived 23,10.37 p.m. London, April 23. The corn trade members of the London Chamber of Commerce resolved that the true rate of duties should be threepence on wheat, fourpence on flour, and twopence on offals. In the Houss of Commons the corn aod flour duties wer« carried by 283 to 197. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach agn ed to a duty on offals of threepence. Received 23, 10.46 p.m. London, April 23. Fifty firms are sufferers by the Barbican fire in London.

I Received 24 0.25 a.m. London, April 23. Forty-two deaths occurred in L?ndon from small-pox last week. The Educatioo Committee of the British Wssleyan Conference, by 49 votes to 23, adopted a resolution strenuously opposing the Education Bill. The Irish League in America has contributed .£IOOO to the Parliamentary fuud. Received 24,0.55 a m. Lcndon, April 23. Queen Alexandra has returned to Ruesia.