CONDENSED CABLES,

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12922, 29 July 1905, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLES,

Moses Dropie s of Philadelphia, Sell £160,000 as an endowment to a college for the study of the Bible and Hebrew literature.. There are no restrictions as to colour, creed^ and sex. The Duke of Fife unveiled at Islington a South African War memorial by B. McKennaV the Victorian sculptor. Turviah troops at lYemen badly de- ' fcated the rebels, killing a thousand. Fifty chiefs were captured. The electric express' from Liverpool to Southport, travelling- at a speed of 50 miles an hour collided with an empty strain at Hall Road Station. Twenty passengers were killed and several injured. . The bankruptcies during 1904 in the United Kingdom numbered 5631, involving a loss to creditors of £9,372, 000, the largest during the decade, and two millions- more than in 1903 v A White Paper issued sliows that companies promoted in the United Kingdom 'iK 1904 numbered 3831, with] a nominal capital of £92,526, the lowest since 1879. Cannon Farrar left a legacy ol £1000 to the Worn-out Wesleyan Ministers' Fund. The Mikado banquetted Miss Roosevelt and the Hon. 'W. Taft (United States Secretary for War),' and drove ihemt through the private Park, which ano 'foreigner had previously been allowed to enter. The boycott of Americans at Shanghai will probably be extended to shipping. The N.S.W. Premier informed a der putation which- waited upon him in the interests of the unemployed that the function of the State was to see that people did not starve, but not to find them work. The Government would find food, and even a stick of tobacco, for the unemployed, but could go no further. They would give what work was available, Jbut not provide work in the shape of "relief when such work was hot required. He announced that he would receive no more deputations. . ' , ' , A JVlilitary Board has been appointed i» Sydney ,t°. -investigate five recent, cases of barrels of service rifles bursting, believed to be- d^^f^Feotiveammunition. Cardinal Moran presided >at a monster Home Rule dejnonstration in Sydney. Mr, William Redmond, ; M.P., delivered a farewell speech. The meeting > subscribed £l9ss,tq. the'; fund. . "/. J The" 'N.S.W. Arbitration Court award '' ib the timber trade granted preference ] to Unionists. 1 Mr Rason's want of confidence motion was defeated in the Westralian Parliament by 25 to 22. The Indepen- l dents voted with the. Government. The Premier .made a hot reply to hostile criticisms! by 'som'e'n^mßeri.^.'his'o<yA * party.