LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 September 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

The Bubonic Plague. Naples, September 26. Twelve dock laborers here have been seized by the plague. Trouble in Benda Imminent. Sophia, September 26. The Servian army resists Alexander’s resolve to appoint the consort of his brother as successor to the Throne. The Cornwall's Tour. Ottawa, September 25. The Cornwalla have started for Winnipeg and journey by train, except for a few stoppages. It will last nearly a month. Sir W. Laurier and Lady Minto accompany the party. Tobacco Combination. New Yobk, September 26. American millionares are moving to secure five of the great English tobacco businesses in order to control the output. Sculling. Harvard and Yale heat Oxford and Cambridge by six events to three in the Sports at New York, Obituary. London, September 26. The death is announced of General A. Freemantle, aged 66. King and Queen’s Tour. London, September 26. King Edward and Queen Alexander in excellent health entrained at Kiel from Flushing and crossed to Sheerness in the Victoria and Albert and were heartily cheered on their arrival at London. They start to-morrow for Ballater.

Tbe Chinese Question,

London, September 26.

The British Intelligence Department, whose information in 1900 was inferior to that possessed by the Russians and Japanese, are sending to other parts of China expeditions similar to that recently conducted by Manifold.

Prince Chun has been recalled and sails in the Genoa on Tuesday for China. The Motor Gar Accident.

The Hague, Sept 26, The Dutch captain succumbed to the injuries of the motor car accident.

Received this day at 9 7 a.m. Serious Outbreak of Smallpox.

London, September 26. There is a virulent smallpox outbreak in London. There are a hundred and sixty cases. The London School Board reluctantly allowed the inspection of scholars where parents unobjectod to ascertain if they had been vaccinated.