EXTRA EDITION. VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1913, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION. VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.- Vtcas Association.'- Copyright (Received March 17, 8.10 a.m.) • "FAITH- HEALING." LONDON, 16th March, tnyram (Bishop of London?) narrates that he visited, at her request, at fcnightsbridge, a girl, aged 15, who was raving and shrieking and suffering from prolonged nervous breakdown, jHe anointed her forehead with oil and said several prayers. The girl at once slept soundly, and is now recovering. (Received March 17, 9 a.m.) VERONAL A POISON. { LONDON, 16th March. As an outcome of the Trevanion case, veronal and other hypnotic drugs have been placed on the poisons schedule. (Received March 17, 9.45 a.m.) LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. • ' LONDON, 16th March. The public subscribed £180,000 for a loan of £100,000 5 per cent, debentures for the Melbourne , Electric Light Company. (Received March 17, 9.30 a.m.) FISHERMEN RESCUED. ST. PETERSBURG, 16th March. , The forty -five ' Astrakhan 'fishermen who were adrift- on an icefloe have been rescued. (i (Received March 17, 9 a.m.) ANOTHER PARIS BANDIT ARRESTED. PARIS, 16th March. 1 Thibault, Lacombe's accomplice, made an attack on the Post Office at Bezons. He was arrested [Lacombe, a Paris bandit, was arrested last week, having in his possession 4 bomb and fuse, and three, Browning pistols.] REFUSAL TO MEET THE KING I AND QUEEN. LONDON, 16th March. Mr. Will Thorne (Labour member for West Ham and general secretary of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers) has refused ' to meet their Majesties, and stated that he does not believe that their visit to Stratford woul^ mitigate the chronic poverty of the borough. , SEVERE EARTHQUAKE RECORDED. >v ' ' LONDON, 16th March. The seismometer at- West Bromwich registered a' severe earthquake seven thousand miles distant, supposed to bo in the direction of Sunda Islands. . /Received March 17, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A very severe earthquake, about 3300 i miles distant, WO6 recordea on Friday, by the seismograph at River view. It is supposed to be at the- Philippines. ! YELLOW, FEVER IN WEST AFRICA LONDON, 15th March. A message from Accra, West African Gold Coast, says that yellow fever has j broken .out at Government House, and the Governor's wife, Lady Clifford, who writes novels under the name of Mr». De la Pasteur, and an aide-de-camp have been stricken.