CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11755, 4 October 1902, Page 5

CABLES.

British and Foreign■

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 2. The Americans are buying1 largely of coal at Swansea and Newcastle.

; Lord Brassey advocates that. some vessels of the present Australian Squadron should be retained as sea-going gunnery ships for short cruises instead of continuous service, which he declares. not accept - able to Australians. He ".says' that a force of .10,000 busllimen under engagement for general service anight be raised if the cost were borne by the Imperial Government. ■ . . . The contributions given to tihe Queen Victoria memorial include £800 from Orange Colony. A thousand miners at entre colliery, Rhoudda.," Wales, have struck'as a protect again.% the eniipWoyment of nonUnionists. Owing to differences amongst Birmingham Unionists about tihe Education Bijl, the Hon. J. Chamberain presides at a conference of his supporters to discuss the Bill. The British-American Tobacco Company has been registered witih a capital of six •million, sterling. The Bank rate; of discount has been raised to 4 per- cent. A winding rope at Tirpintwys colliery, Pontypool, snapped. The cage, with eight men in, fell 690 feet, and was.dashed'to atoms. PARIS, October 2. The strikers >at Lille threaten to wreck trains if they dk> not obtain satisfaction.

NEW YORK, October 2.

Colonel Perilling caiptured and destroyed three forts at Mindanao), Pliilippines, killing 28 Moros and wounding many.