GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 232, 24 June 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DY TELEURAFH—FBESS ASSOCIATION —COPTRIGH MR. JOHN BURNS. ' ' . (Rec. June 23j-10.2 p.m.) ." \ • . , ; ifondon, June 23. King Edward.and Queen Alexandra and the. Prince and Princess of Wales inquired as to the condition of Mr. John Burns" (President of tho Local Government Board), and were informed that he is improving. ANOTHER SPANISH PRINCE. Madrid,' June 23. The Queen of Spain has . been accouched . of a son. , . , The heir to the Spanish throne,' Dor - Alfonso, the first-born,of the King and Queer of Spain, was born on May 10, 1907. ' Cape forage. ■ CapetoWn,''June 23. • Strong foeling' has been aroused at Cape' town owing to^-Australia's prohibition of 1 th« importation of Cape forage.. Retaliation, is suggested; ' Both parties in- the \ Assembl} protested vigorously, and emphasised thai Cape forage, has had absolute freedom. Th« Minister for Agriculture promised to commu nicato'.with tho Commonwealth.; '• - „ ' DAMAGES AGAINST A CHRISTIAN ' . . , : , SCIENTIST. f ' Nsw York, June 22. ' Solomon Raislor, of New York, has boen awarded £1500 against a Christian Scientist whoso prayers failed to heal him. Tho scientific element of the faith is indicated in the following passages from "Science and Health,"'by Mrs. Eddy:—"The verity of Mind shows conclusively how it is that matter scemoth to be, but is not. Divine Science, rising above physical theories, .excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas. . . . Christian Science sustains- with: immortal - proof the impossibility of any material sense, 'and defines those so-called senses as mortal beliefs, whose testimony can neither bo true of man nor his Maker." It > follows _ that disease-and pain are merely "mortal beliefs," sensations without reality. In tho practice of Christian Science,. the understanding' of tho allness of immortal Truth or Spirit, which is God, loads to the disappearance of paiu ana .disease,

DAIRYING REPLACES SUGAR. Sydney, Jnno 23. It is officially estimated that the sugar output of New. South Wales for next year will be nearly 1200 tons less than at present, tho expansion of the dairying industry diminishing; sugar cultivation. ' I '' DESERTED WOMEN . AND, CHILDREN, . . ■ Sydney, Juno' 23. According to the Mission Zono roport, over 600 women were dosorted -by their husbands in Sydney last year, and 3000 children were dealt with by tho Children's Court.