GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2216, 31 July 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegriph—Pma Association—Copyright . > ■ ■ ■ ——rr+ ■A DUKE 4ND HIS WIPE. (Rec. July 29, 11.55 p.m.) . Brussels, July 29. Tho Court has ordered tho Duke of Orleans to pay the Duchess fifty-five thousand crowns annually, ,t<> restore tho sums he had from the Duchess during cohabitation, and to return the dowry. ■ VICTORIAN INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, Sydney, July 29. Mr. W. H. Holmes, assistant manager of the' New Zealand Insurance Com- ' pany, has ' been appointed Victoria!' State Insuranco Commissioner. FIRE IN A MINE Berlin, July 28. By a fire at the Adolf von Hauseniann mine at Dortmund eighteen mer '/ perished. ' y' PRAISE FOR AUSTRALIAN ' ■ CADETS. ! London, July 28. : ' Field Marshal Lord Roberts, speak* tug at Bedford, eulogised the impressiveness of tho ceremony with which ' the Senior Cadets in Australia wore ' transferred to the infantry. , 1 PAY OF WOMEN DOCTORS. ' > / ■'Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. London, July ,30. The Medical Association at Aberdeen ! has passed a resolution that women ; doctors employed in reformatories and ] industrial schools should be paid; the same salary as male doctors. •; VICTORIA'S POPULATION. Melbourne, July 30. The estimated population of Victoria, . at the end of 1913 was 1,412,119, an increase of 31,558. : , EARL KITCHENER, London, July 29." Lord Kitchener, who > has been inado an Earl, has taken his seat in tho i Houso of Lords. ; . BOUNTY ON WHALE OIL. ' Sydney, July. 30. Befora tho Inter-State Commission, ■ .■> a. witness applied for a bounty of JOOs! : .i per tun of whale oil to be paid t<f owners shipping from Norfolk Island. i