Condensed Cables.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12595, 2 July 1904, Page 7

Condensed Cables.

• __ )lr G. F. Watts, artist, is in critical i health. He is suffering 1 iroin bronchitis. The liight Hon. H. 0. Arnold-Jb'ors-|ter (Secretary fur War) has announced I that the "War Oflice will s>pend £1,000, OUO on a now pattern of horse iieid batteries in 1905. Kight torpedoes were exploded at Kronstadt arsenal harmlessly. There is a suspicion that the explosion is the result of an outrage. While motoring in Donegal Lord Dudley (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) aiid parly were up^et* the car nearly j ialling over an embankment thirty , feet. .deep. Lady Dudic'y was badly cut, b\it the rest escax^cd. , M.v W. P. Keeves (i\".Z. Agent-Geuer : aij lias interviewed I\ir Lytteiton (Secretary for the Colonies) relative to Kenneth Harper's expulsion from Sau Francisco and hu imprisonment at Hawaii. Mi. 1 Lytteitoxx is exchanging communications with the authorities at Washington respecting iS'ew ' Zealand's tfiaim for recompense. (Air Hamper, a bunk clerk, went from .New j Zealand to America under engagement, and was expelled under the Contract Law.) r . . ' Dr. J)owie was welcomed by Zionists ■ in .New York, a huge triumphal arch ] being erected in imitation atones, and < inscribed with the names of cities the Prophet visited. Those oi Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and London, where < JJowie was rejected, are marked in red letU ring. Jtcports from various sheep districts ] oi Lscxv South Wales show that tho i Autumn lambing Ims been highly sat- i isfactory. Over 0,650,000 lambs have , been marked. The Kaiser returns King Edward's visit in August. He comes with hib ileot. Twenty-one thousand eight hundred t and seventy-one passive resistance summonses were issued during the year and 1)71 sales occurred in connection with them. There -were 22 cases of imprisonment. Queensland's revenue for the year .shows a £311,001) increase compared delicit of last year has been reduced to £25,000. The Victorian revenue for the year shows £341,000. an increase compared with the preceding year. In connection with irregularities in. regard to the importation of .New Zealand fish one- officer was fined two months' salary and compulsory retired from the service, and two others had their salaries reduced for a year. MB RUASEIt RELATES FACTS. IV! rD. Fraser is interested in the cycle trade, Tcmuka, and writes ad iollows :—": — " Last xVxigust 1 was taken •• ill Avith rheumatic fever, and con- : suited a doctor, who sent me to the hospital, where I stayed about three months, and left as cured. Some icw weeks after my discharge from tlie hospital I was again taken bad— so bad, in fact, that I couldn't- move any of my joints. J saw liheuino advertised, and tried a boltle as an experiment. After taking half a bottle " 1 \v u s able to get up and walk about. I took four or live boffcJ(\3. and have never felt an ache or pain since. 1 consider Rheum o a wonderful medicine." Mr Frascr is right— Khoumo is wnndorful. Sold by chemists and store:; tit 2/0 and 1 'l/fi por bottle— KeiHT>lliovn«, I'i'oswr uud Co., "Whoie■rfalo Ap-ent?.— Advt. , Warm flippers in endless variety from I'd. per pair. A .B.C. Boob and Shoo. — Advt, i Tucker's Pudding Powder in sixpenny packets, two flavours in oach packet, contains suflibicnt material for almost two quarts oC delicious puddine*. — Advt. The Melbourne Clothing Company anuouncoH tho last days of the Grrat OliVnax Hale and the men are a c ;ked to "be on dock" to <tct a good view of tho greatest bargains ever placed on the counters of any shop in Tara-naki-p—Advt.