MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. The Canadian Government are requesting Great Britain to appoint a Royal Commission, including Australasian and South African representatives, to inquire, into tho question of Indian immigration into overseas dominions. Tho combined Empress of Ireland relief funds total £BB,OOO. The Scottish coal masters have decided to lock out the miners whenever the proposal to work only four days a week is sought to be carried out. The Hon. T. Mackenzie attended a deputation to tho Board of Trade to-day in support of a British Empire trade-mark. The State insurance doctors at Nledbarnim, near Berlin, struck for an increase in pay by 50 per cent. M. Ligagncux, while looping-the-loop at Saurncr, fell into tire river Loire, and died from the injuries he sustained. Forest fires, extending over wide stretches of country, have broken out in North-east Russia, and are assuming alarming proportions. An enormous quantity of corn has been already destroyed. Bubonic plague lias broken out in New Orleans. Two persons have died, and three are in the hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 8
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173MISCELLANEOUS CABLES Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 8
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