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, » By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyrighti. (Received July 28, 10 a.m.) ROUMANIAN CROPS. BUCHAREST, 27th July. The Roumanian crops arc reported to be splendid. CHOLERA. ST. PETERSBURG, 27th July. There are 110 caseß of cholera in St. Petersburg. Fifteen deaths have been reported. SHIPPING FEDERATION AND DOCKS COMMITTEE. LONDON, 27th July. Tho Shipping Federation, commenting on the agreement between the Bristol Docks Committee and the Bristol Dockers' Union, accuses the committee of avoiding any sacrifice, and of dia1. regarding its pledge to two boycotted foremen. [The men put on to work by the Ship ping Federation in place of those who went out on strike at Avonniouth (Bristol) were to have beeoi withdrawn yesterday.] THE PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, 27th July. It has been decided that the Prince of Wales shall not, until he reaches his majority, accept the presidency of any institution. "JACK THE RIPPER" CASE. LONDON, 27th July. Mt. R. H. Bullock-Marsham, Police Magistrate at the Bow-street Court, stated that Dr. Forbes Winslow's protege, mentioned yesterday, might sue tht> writers of any slanderous letters in the newspapers connecting him with the "Jack-the-Ripper" murders. [The man referred to is the one whom Mr. George Kebbell, a lawyer, described in April as the murderer, and whom he said he believed to be an Irishman, educated as a doctor, who had died in prison while undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal servitude.] MR. TAFT'S ADMINISTRATION. NEW YORK 27th July. In hi» inaugural address, Mr. Nicholas Lojigworth, Mr. Roosevelt's son-in-law, as chairman' of the Ohio Republican Convention, paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Taft's administration. MOTOR.DRIVEN STEAMER. HAMBURG, 27th July. The Hamburg-American Line has ordered a nino thousand-ton motordriven steamer. TURKS AMNESTIED. CONSTANTINOPLE, 27th July. The Turkish officials to whom amnesties were recently granted on the occasion of the anniversary of the reinauguration of tho Constitution include Shakir Pasha., the chief of ex-Sftltan Abdul Hamid's Military Cabinet. RESIGNATION OF AN M.P. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. William Kn'>x has resigned his seat in the Federal House of Representatives owing to ill-health. [Mr. Knox has been a member of the Federal House of Representatives for Kooyong, Victoria, since 1901. He was born in Melbourne in 1850, and is intimately associated with many Victorian commercial enterprises — banking, mining, etc.] (Received July 28, 10.5 a.m.) PARIS AND KING EDWARD. . PARIS, 27th July. .Paris intends naming a new street "Edouard V 11.," and will erect an equestrian statue in memory of Britain's late King. DEATHS OF INFANTS. LONDON, 27th July. Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, has issued Dr. Arthur Newsholmo's report jii infantile mortality in England and Wales. This is the first systematic attempt thnt • has been made to investigate the subject. [Dr. Newsholme is a well known public health officer, for some time attached to the Local Government Board. The following shows the annual deathrate- of infanta per 1000 living at each age in the decade 1891-1900: — Under one year of age, 181.2; one to two years, 54.7; two to three, 20.3; three to four, 12.9, four to five, 9.3. High as the rate of mortality among infants under one year of age may appear, it may be noted that in most of the principal foreign countries of which statistics are available,- the rate of infantile mortality is as high or, indeed, higher than in England and Wales. In drawing this comparison, however, it has to be remembered that complete correction for differences of practice as regards the registration of births within the first days of life cannot be made.] SOUTH AFRICA AND AUSTRALIAN WINES. MELBOURNE, 27th July. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Tudor, Minister for Customs, said he was aware that South African wines were admitted to New Zealand on better terms than Australian wines. He would <p c prepared to consider some leciprocal treatment with Now Zealand which would place Australian wines on an equal footing with those of South Africa. KING GEORGE. LONDON, 27th July. King George visited Tor Bay, Devonshire, where he passed between the firsthne. Dreadnoughts and the King Edward class battleships. His Majesty inspects the Fleet to-day, when a mimic fight at sea will take place.