LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 1

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

(Per United Press Association.)

LONDON, N'overober 2The Liberals ha.ye gained sixty seats at the municipal election*;.

Mr Balfour, owing* to an irritation in. a small vein-, keeps; bis room by tlio doctor's ordoi'S for a few days-

Tlia tlabinot Counciil to-dayl was bold at Downing street, owing to tbe Premier's indisposition instead 1 of at the Foreign Offico-

Mr Chamberlaini, in a letter to Sir J. Coickibfu'i'u:, warmly suppo-rtinjr his eniKlidatuid, thinks 1 that the House of (Commons mi^'liti well find a place for one or two gentlemen, who', like Mi* Cockburn, while maintaining personal indiependence were able to assist Parliament to understand more fully the views and aspirations of the colonies.

ft'everal of the newspapers' at. Berlin say that the: Federal Council of Germany has awarded the regency and the succession, of L.i'ppo-iDetmoldl to Comnt Leopold of Lippe-Biestcr-fielcl.

NEW YORK, November,. 2

The Franco-American arbitration treaty has been signed at tonThe hoisting engineers in the ■bituminous) collieries, Illinois:, have struck against, a. reduction, of 5h ppr cent- throwing 1 50,000 miners idle-

SYDNEY, November 3Considerable damage was done by the storm-

Buildings were wrecked in various parts: of the country and telegraph' lines in: the whole State were interrupted.

It is expected to be restored today-

[ The cyclone, storm, struck Maclean | this afternoon, doing 1 considerable damage. It lasted half an, hour with terrific! forceMarry buildings; and residences wereblown down, and nearly every housein the: town: was more or less agedNo loss of life iM reported. MELBOURNE, November 3. A terrific gale is raging 1 on the western coast, and shipping is at a . .standstill. Advice has been rceived here of the death of Mr Iliggiuson, one of the; leaders in the French colonisation of the New HebridesBRISBANE, November 3There are three fatal cases of plague at Coolers Oeek, eight miles from town.