Cable Messages.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 11287, 4 August 1898, Page 2

Cable Messages.

Onited Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. Received August 3, 11.30 p.m. ARREST OF MAJOR ESTERHAZY. Paiuß, Angust 2. Major Esterhazy lias been arrested on a charge of defrauding his cousin of several thousand francs. Eeceived August 4, 9.20 a.m. THE WEST INDIES SUGAR INDUSTRY. London, August 3. In tho House of Commons 'Mr Chamberlain moved that farther grants be made to the British West Indieß npon the lines recommended by the Sugar Bounties Commission.' He said there mus); be deficits in these islands until the sugar industry was restored to its normal state. He treated the grants as belonging to necessary expenses of the Empire which now gave such amounts in r.ere doles. The grant was carried. Eeceived August 4, 9.45 a.m, A BANKRUPT PEER. Lokdon, August 3 . The examination in bankruptcy of the Earl of Kosslyn resulted in the suspension of his certificate of discharge for a period of five years. Eeceived August (1, 11 -a-m.

THE CAPB COLONY ELECTIONS. Capetown, August 3. The election campaign is progressing. Mr Cecil Rhodes, in the course of a speech , said the Dutch were with them this election. He was fighting to maintain the Queen's supremacy in Suuth Africa, and added " Hofineyr, leader of the Africander 1 Band, declares my death is the only solution of tbe difficulty. This is quite trne, and if a fanatic executes his thoughts IJofmeyer will be Blobbering at'niy funeral," Mr Hhodes said he did not intend to be removed from public life excepting by death.