GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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MUMPS ON A WARSHIP.

: Brisbane, August 23. . A serious outbreak of.. mumps and measles has occurred on the warship Challenger.' Fifty cases have been landed.

SUGAR PRODUCTION. - ■

:'.'.'■ •' - London, "August 22., Mr. Licht, the tfell-known ■. expert ia regard to boot sugar, estimates tnat the sugar production so far shows a decrease of 218,000 tons, and that for • the whole season it will amount .to 359,000 tons.

KAISER AND THE POLES. '.

Berlin, August 22.',, Poles did not take part in the welcome. to Posen of the Kaiser, who attended the ceremony of the opening of an Imperial residential palace, in that city. There were only Germans in the, strtofcs and at the receptions.'

ROYAL DIVORCEES.

\ : Brussels, August 22.. Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the' late King Leopold, will accept £52,093 in lieu of. alimony from Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg, from whom she was divorc-. Ed in 1300. The Prince will deduct that amount from the ,£83,333 which she acknowledges she owes him.

NEW AMERICAN RAILWAY.

San Francisco, August 22. ■ The Western-Pacific railway, from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, has been opened. It cost seventy-five million dollars.

.STATE, COAL MINES.

Melbourne, August 23. The daily output of the State's coal, mine is now 1100 tons.

SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

. Sydney, August-22. ,There ,is no change to report concern* ing the slaughtering trouble. Many of the men who' struck aro leaving the State. ' ■

MURDER GHARGE WITHDRAWN.

Brisbane, August 23. The Attorney-General has decided not to file au indictment against the bluejackets of H.M.S. Prometheus, who were charged with the murder of an old ng( pensioner found dying iu the street.