Cable Brevities.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7705, 6 January 1905, Page 3

Cable Brevities.

The Mansion House London Unemployed Relief Fund totaja £3(9,000. Sir George Turner. Federal Treasurer, delivers his Financial Statement on the 20th. THe Queensland revenue for the past six mantha shows ia, decrease of £51,000 ami the expenditure a decrease of £54,000!, The New South Wales Customs re--i Ceipts for the hald year totalled £4,588 1 000, against £4,709,000 in corresponding period o£ last H./RK Japanese Consul at Sydney is advised that the wife of the Crown Prince of Japan gave birth to a son on the day. Port Arthur surCaptaifl Nicolus was court-mar-tialled at Belgrade for using foul j iangaage against King Peter, and ' .was sentenced to degradation and i two years' imprisonment, j The hoard of directors of the Syd- ! ney Hospital has refused to ap- , point a; resident lady doctor on the ; ground that there is insufficient ac—7> commodatiou in the hospital, and tjiat a .wpjnaA >vouM be out of place< Hie wheelers in the Newcastle mines have decided not to return to , wprk unless at the wages ruling last year; and to form a. union of : their own independent of the min- , era. Those mtners who are doing j their own wheeling will be black- ( listed.