GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 258, 24 July 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BY TBLEOIMFH—FBSSS l&'&raiTiS&-H»MM<inT. FIGHTING IN PERSIA. „ Teheran, July 22. In connection with 'tho. fighting at .Tabriz tho Shah has ordered-three brigand tribe to reinforce RakhintjPasia. BOMB OUTRAGE.—A CONFESSION. Sti. July. 22. ' Nilsson, a .Revolutionary . 'Socialist,, ha confessed to tho MalmoVoutrage. A cablegram from Stockholm, dated July l: reported that an outrage, the sequel to a strik< had occurred at Majrno, capital of theprovinc of Malmohus, Sweden,'a' seaport of some 50,00 inhabitants. Eighty.•'English' dockers; "who"ha been engaged to replace strikers at the porl were 'accommodated;, aboard a hulk. -A boml: which had been concealed on-the'vessel,; ej ploded with disastrous effect. One of the Enp lishmen was killed and" seven > others ver wounded. PERSONALTY A MILLION. ■ ' . London, . July 22. The personalty of tho late Mr. Williai Lithgow, shipbuilder, of Russell and Com pany, Greenock) has .becu..sWoi;n,at a mil lion. '7 UNITED STATES, FLEET,. Sydney, July. 22 Funds for tho entertainment, of tho. Aineri can fleet —concerning which'tho'Lord Mayo recently condemned citizens' parsimony—ar now coming in freely. . UNPLEASANT READING. Sydney, July 23. Statements were made at a meeting of th. Macquarie Shiro Council; 1 that, many rabbit sent to Sydney for consumption were suffer ihg from hydatids.,.;;A.; councillor: declare that - he would sooner "take!', a ' bottle *'o [ strychnine than eat "a rabbit "at ilie presen time. He knew of- two rabbiters who hac contracted tho disease. "MOTSER-'dobSET""'" ' " Melbourne, July 23. Tho action against Mr. J. C. Williamson i.E connection with tho production" of the "Mother Gooso" pantomime kasbcen. commenced in tho Supreme Court.. . , One of tho questions is whether the J. C. Williamson "Mother Goose" pantomimo is o new one or whether, it is that, produced at Home by the plaintiffs, (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Limited), who are'now claiming from Mr. Williamson his ViotoHan•' profits and o royalty, in the alternative an ix'junctioii. INJURED WHILE MOTORING, i' San Francisco, July 22. The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, was seriously injured^while. motoring in'Sa-n Francisco."-' » ' ' - r '-- v ' — "BRIDGE" PROHIBITED. . . . Paris, July 22. On the ground that the bank.levies no toll on tho.game,' "bridge" has been prohibited in tho casinos at Aix-les-Bams and Contrexeville, tho only .game's permitted :by license being. baccarat- and ecarto. " . NEW SOUTH WALES WEATHER. Sydney, July 23. The. weather is again' wintry." Thoro have been stiff frosts.