GENERAL CABLEGRAMS
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COUNTESS DE LA WARR'S. DIVORCE SUIT.
London, April 23. The Countess Do La Warr has been granted a decree nisi. [Tho Countess is a daughter of Colonel C. Lennox Tredcroft, of Glen Ancrum, Guildford. The Earl, born in 1869, was also—in 1902— divorced by his first wife, the Hon. Muriel Agnes Brassey, second daughter of Lord Brassey.]
INSURANCE COMPANIES AT LAW.
London, April 23. In the Privy Council appeal case the Australian Widows' Fund versus tho National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, the appeal was allowed, with costs.'
SHAKESPEARE CELEBRATIONS.
Berlin, April 23. •Germany is celebrating tho 350 th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Tlio newspapers devoto long articles to the subjects of the theatre and the staging of plays.
BRITISH BUDGET,
London, April 23. The Budget will be brought down next Thursday in the House of Commons.
SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY SUBURB,
Sydney, April 24. There is one smallpox caso at,Newtown, a suburb of Sydney.
HORSE-MAIMING OUTRAGE.
London, April 23. A horse was maliciously maimed—a gash thirteen inches long and' two inches in depth being inflicted—at Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
GYROSCOPE MOTOR-CARS,
London, April 23. A motor-oar on two wheels placed controlly in the chassis has been built to tho order of M. Schilowsky, a Russian lawyer, by Wolslcy's firm 111 England. The power is devised by a gyroscope in the centre of the chassis, below tho front seats, which is electrically driven. —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.
THE SUTTEE FETISH IN INDIA.
Calcutta, April 23. Tho wife of a Lemindar, aged 26, drenched her clothee with kerosene two minutes after her husband's death, and Betting fire to herself was burned to death. 'The double funeral was attended by a huge crowd, the self-immolation of the wifo being generally considered to have" been a highly meritorious act.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.
PULMONARY PLAGUE IN TOKIO.
i (Rec. April 24, 9.30 p.m.) Toklo, April 24. An epidemic of pulmonary plaglio Ims broken out in Tokio, deaths occurring ilttily. _____
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 5
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