GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2131, 24 April 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY.

Sydney/'April 23 Two persons are suffering from small, pox at Coraki, 349 miles from Sydney.

AUSTRALIA'S NEW SUBMARINES,

Singapore, April 22. Tho submarines for tho Commonwealth havo arrived here.

EMPEROR. FRANZ JOSEPH.

Vienna, April 22. The Emperor Francis Joseph passed a good night. Tho catarrhal symptoms aro unchanged.

NEW JUDGES APPOINTED.

London, April 22. Sir A. M. Channel has resigned his seat on the King's Bench Division of tho High Court of Justice in England. Mr. Montague Shearman, K.C., and Mr. John Sankey, K.C., havo been appointed Judges of tho King's Bench Division.

EMINENT PRELATE'S WILL.

Berlin, April 22. The fortune of tho lato Cardinal Kopp (Bishop of Breslau, who was an eminent figure in tho Roman Catholic Church in Germany) amounted to £350,000, and has been bequeathed to the Church.

OBITUARY.

(Iko. April 23, 9.40 p.m.) Melbourne, April 23. The Rev. A. Edgar, a prominent minister of the Methodist Church in Melbourne and Superintendent of tho Central Methodist Mission since 1893, who has been actively associated with many of the principal social movements iti Melbourne, is dead.

PAGET "CURE" FOR CONSUMPTION.

(Rco. April 22, D.40 p. m.) ...Perth, April 22. It is stated that Dr. Paget's consumption euro (briefly referred to in a. previous cablo message), consists in snuffing specially prepared tuborculosis material through tho nostrils. Dr. Paget has sailed for America to hare his ■treatment tested by famous specialists.

ANTI-PROHIBITION STRIKE IN

RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, April 22. A strike of 10,000 factorymen in tlio Russian provinces comes as a sequel to the most sober Easter ever known. Tlio strikers are protesting against the prohibition of liquor sales during tlio throe clays of Easter.—"Times"—Sydney "Sun" Services.