TO-DAY'S CABLES

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 26 August 1905, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES

Meat Famine in Berlin. Teleurmub Preiw Association < ou> ritfbt. Received August 26, 9.1 a.m. Berlin, August 25, Indignation meetings are spreading throughout Germany in connection with the meat famine. They demand the admission of foreign meat. Squabble over a Statue. New York, August 25. Mr Pierpoint Morgan secured the dismissal of Mr Elwell, curator of the Art Museum in New York, for consigning to a lumber room a bronze statue of Caius Vibius Gallus on the ground that it was worthless, though it had cost Morgan £10,000. The newspapers condemn Morgan for using his influence to enforce the acceptance of a questionable article. Yellow Fever Spreading. New York, August 25. Yellow fever is spreading in New Orleans. The medical authorities believe there are a thousand cases in Louisiana. The disease is not likely to be stamped out till tbe weather is colder.