GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telcgraph-trcm Association-Copyright,

(Rec. August 2G, 0.45 p.m.)'.' ' London, August 25. Upwards of. a dozen casus of spotted fever havo occurred in the Melton Mowbrny district, of Leicestershire. . [Spotted fever, otherwise corebro-spinal meningitis, is usually accompanied by a high mortality, averaging 60 per cont. of the patients affected.]

OUTBREAK OP SPOTTED. FEVER.

WRECK OF'THE BEDFORD..

London, August 25. . Tho work of salvngiug the V first-class cruiser Bedford, whora condition Admiral .Winsloe states is hopeless, has begun, tho weather having improved,

A STRIKE SETTLED.

Sydney, August 25. The,, North , Coast railway strike has been settled. The men decided to expel from the union the six agitators over whom tho trouble occurred..

EMPLOYERS FINED.

Sydney, August 25. Soveral employers havo been fined by tho Industrial Court for working their omployecs after hours or paying them less wages than, the Industrial Act prescribed. , The Chief Railway. Commissioner was mulcted in- £i for paying a plumber below the fixed wage. v

RECOVERY OF BETS.

' . ■ Sydney, August 25 .The State Full Court to-day endorsed a decision given in a previous case ten years ago that bets are not recoverable at law. .-

THE KINGSAN.D MURDER.

London, August 25. James Hamilton Nicholas, charged'with the murder of his father, Major Nicholas, formerly of the Army Service Corps, at King-sand, Cornwall, has been committed for trial. /

Berlin, August 24. Trench; a friend of Brandon, the Englishman arrested at Borkum, Hajiover, while photographing the fortifications at the mouth of the ltiver Weser, has also been arrested, at Emden. Ho had previously been taken into custody at Borkuiu, and his papers searched, after which he had been released.

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.

FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. Mom Vni-k 5,.,„.cf 0.1

New York, August 21. An automobile collided with .a train at a lovel crossing on Long Island. Three of the occupants of the car were killed and two seriously injured. ■ ' . ■

CONCESSION TO TRAVELLERS.

Sydney, August 24. ]iy arrangements between the Orient and Aberdeen Lines,- passengers are ablo to proceed to England via Suez, and return by the Cape, on interchangeable tickets.

London, August 24. In connection with the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease, the Board of Agriculture .has removed the' restrictions from several districts, iu Yorkshire.

A trade board lias been established for the ready-made 'and wholesale bespoke tailoring trade. The gross estato of Colonel Porcival firowno, of Mount Gambler, litis been sworn at =6102,278, and the personalty at

Sydney, August 25. The Attorney-General of Fiji, Mr. A. Ehrliardt, lias been appointed ActingCliief Justice of Fiji, a;id Mr. G. G. Alexander, Chief Police Magistrate, acting Attorney-General. The Cosmoprijiian Hotel, at Munvillumbah, containing 25 rooms, was destroyed by lire. It was insured. .