GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 104, 23 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. London, June 21. At the instance of Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge it is proposed to ask Parliament to vote £2OUO for the Mawson Antarctic expedition. Jack Johnson meets Curran in the Theatre Royal at Dublin at the end of July in a ten rounds’ fight. By the King’s special desire their Majesties’ visit to Maynooth College will probably lie on July 9. The King telegraphed to Cardinal Loguo sincerely thanking the Bishops assembled at Maynooth for their kin! congratulations to the Queen and himself on the solemn occasion of the Coronation, and for their kind wishes that every blessing might attend them. New York, June 21. A bomb exploded in the manhole of the premises of the Commonwealth Edison Electric Company, Chicago, and shattcied the windows in three blocks around. The guests at the Blackstone Congress and at the hotels were panic-stricken. There were no fatalities. The company is involved in a dispute with their workers. London, Juno 21. The Hon. J. Murray has thoroughly reorganised the Emigration Department, and is investigating railways electrification, particularly at Leeds and Newcastle. After the Coronation he will visit Manchester, Glasgow, ird Birmingham to enquire into trade uid shipping, lie has been the movoig spirit at the Conference of State Premiers,, with a view to Commonwealth agencies combining tiioir offices in London. After visiting Scotland and Ireland lie will go to Berlin and Essen. London, Juno 21. The Westralian annual dinner was iaigely attended. Sir John Forrest, in the course of his speech, prophesied that West Australia in a few years would be the greatest wheat producer in the Commonwealth. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Pearce are conferring’ with the Admiralty to fix a working basis for the cooperation of the Commonwealth Navy with the Imperial Navy, also the appointment of the waters of the Australian station.

As the steamer Ladybrook was leaving Hull, the crew, after a heated argument with the strikers and pickets, fired six shots into the crowd, injuring a picket, it is feared fatally. Efforts are being made to stop the Ladybrook before she leaves the Humber.

Calcutta, June 21. A youthful Brahmin accompanying Mr. Ashe’s murderer has been arrested. The crime was the outcome of a :arefully-planned conspiracy.