GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 896, 16 August 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Teleeranh—Prem Association-Copyright, —— ; c ■— •:' A I 'RACIAL RIOT IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, August 15 . Throo hundred Czechs while visiting the Sports Exhibition now being held' here came into violent collision with some German demonstrators. Many police were injured, and nine arrests were made. . ROYALTY "anITiTS BILLS. . London, August 14. The High Court at Lisbon 'has decided that the Dowager Queen Maria Pia is liable to be sued, by her dressmakers, the amount at issue being .£4OOO. The Lower Courts held that the Queen was privileged. ■ FISH AND BAD OIL^ ■ . . . ■ London, August 14. Eight persons at Kingston-on-Thauies are seriously indisposed. It is supposed that their illness is attributable to eating fish which had been fried in jbad oil. LT.-COL. SIR FLEETWOOD EDWARDS. (E«c. August IG, 0.40 a,mt) London,' August, 15. The death is announced of Lt.-C'ol. the Kt. Hon. Sir Fleetwood Ishain Edwards/ Sergeivnt-at-Arms in the House of Lords; aged f>B. EARL AMHERST DEAD; '■ London, August' 15. Earl Amherst is dead, aged 74. The lato Earl was a prominent Freemason and, an e.\-JI.P. for West Kent. ' FOOTBALLER DEAD. Brisbane, August 15. Mick Dqro, Queensland's Rugby football captain, is dead. BENDIGO TRAGEDY. Melbourne, August 15. Cecilia M'Cluskey, the woman who recently killed her' family and then attempted to burn down the house, has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering her three children at Ironbark, near Bcndigo. VICTORIAN CROP PROSPECTS. Melbourne, August 15. The crop and wool prospects are excellent and present indications point to a rcuord season. A BAD VINTAGE. Sydney, August 15. . The "Wine Trade Keviow" slates Ihut the European vintage of 11)10 is one Sot the worst on record,