GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Prem Aflsociation-Ooprright, • ' —-— -+- -. , A HANDSOME BEQUEST. (Rec. "August 29, 11.25. p.m.) New York, August 28. Mrs. Flora Donger, of East Orange, Now Jersey, lias bequeathed a million dollars to Booker Washington's Tuskegee Institute for the education of negroes. JAPANESE FLOOD LOSSES. ,-■ . Tokio, August 29. The losses suffered by the Japanese farmers and sericulturists in the roceufc floods amount to ,£0,000,000. TO REPLACE TEE BEDFORD.' ■'.' * London, August 28. The second-class cruiser Newcastle has been ordered to replace • tho Bedford (wrecked at Quolpait Island, south of Korea) on the China Station. IRISH PENSION DISPUTE. . London, August 28. It has been arranged that a test case affecting 30,000 Irish claims for old. age pensions shall come before the House of Lords'. . i ' BOYS RESCUE EXCURSIONISTS. . London, August 28 ; Lads of the training ship Plymouth saved nine excursionists whose boat had capsized during a squall in the Thames. • . SHORTAGE OF CHAMPAGNE. - Paris. August 28. Owing to mildew and brows-rot, there will be practically no champagne manufactured in France this year. RUSSIAN. OFFICIALS ARRESTED. St. Petersburg, August 28. Thirty-seven officials on tho Russian South-Wostern Railway have.been arrested for defal cations amounting to half a million pounds sterling. Criminal prosecutions are ponding.' SUICIDES.IN ODESSA. St. Petersburg, August 28. Twenty-six females and eighteen males committed suicide at Odessa during July last. . ■ ■ • AN EXPERIMENT DECLINED. Now York, August 29.' The authorities have declined to carry out the suggestion that the coast artillery and warships should fire their big guns iu order to cause a rainfall to extinguish the forest fires. '' ■ THF, TRANSVAAL INDIANS. Calcutta, August 28. The sum of ;£(io(ll) has been subscribed in India for the benefit of Indians in tho Transvaal who are suffering from tho anti-Indian legislation. A DELAYED LINER. Durban, August 28. The Blue Anchor Line steamer Geelong, which has been disabled since August 20, is repairing her machinery at Durban, and will sail from there on August 31. THE FEDERAL BUDGET. ■ . Melbourne, August 29. . The date of delivery of the Federal Budget has been altered to September 7. AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY SCHEMES. Melbourne, August 29. With reference to tho London "Times's" statement that it was glad to sec ■ that the transcontinental railway , schemes were being relegated to the .future, Mr. Bntchelor, Minister for Home Affairs, states that the Government is thoroughly in' earnest over both transcontinental railways, and that this fact will ba made apparent during the current session. ' COLD' WEATHER IN SYDNEY. Sydney, August 29. Tho coldest weather of the year is prevailing. It is snowing on 'the upper reaches. THE RANDWICK. , .TRAGEDY. Sydney, August 29. John Brown, a son,of Nurse Brown, has been invested on a charge of boiitff mi accessory after the fact in connection with the death of Miss O'Brien, the girl who?c body was recently found on tho sandhills at Raudwick.