GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

O .PAGEANT OF EMPIRE. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. (Received 13, 8.5 a.m.) London, July 12. Owing to their success, the Pageant of Empire performances will lie continued until the end of August, at popular prices. SKIN-GRAFTING. ! Loudon, July 12. The wife of an Essex farmer has been cured of a burning accident after many years suffering, through twenty members of the family volunteering over two hundred pieces of skin for grafting purposes. DR MAWSON’S DOGS. Copenhagen, July 12. Dr Mawson’s eight Greenland dogs have been delivered to the explorer’s agent, and are being taken to London. CHOLERA. Romo, July 12. An official inquiry reveals that there have been SO Asiatic cholera cases and 28 deaths at Palermo during the week, GO cases and 21 deaths at Naples, and 100 cases elsewhere in Italy. SABOTAGE IN FRANCE. Paris, July 12. There were three more attempts to derail trains yesterday, in addition to wire-cutting and other forms of sabotage. Several arrests have been made.

AN EDITOR. MURDERED. Constantinople, July 12. Two assasins murdered Zekki Rey, editor of "Safiah.” This is the third murder of journalists opposing the Committee. Two arrests have been made. KING GEORGE AS ARBITRATOR. (Received 13, 8.55 a.m.) London, July 12. King George has awarded the American claimants in the long-standing' Alsop dispute between Chili and the United States £187,000. AMERICAN TRAIN ACCIDENT. New York, July 12. The Colonial Express leaped an embankment when it struck a switch while going at sixty miles an hour, Five Pullmans day-coaches and a baggage van crashed streetwards. Twelve persons were killed and forty-four injured. King, a young machinist, was driven insane by the accident, although uninjured. The train was late, and the engineers was endeavouring to make up lost time. The day-coach was smashed to matchwood, and everyone aboard was killed or injubedl

AN INQUEST RE-OPENED. New York, July 12. In connection with the supposed accidental drowning of James Petitt, president of the Peavy Grain Co., Chicago, the coroner has requested the re-opening of the inquest. Petitt was previously in serious financial straits. CRIPPEN’S SOLICITOR SUSPENDED. (Received 13, 9.45 a.m.) London, July 12. Archer Newton, Crippen’s solicitor, has been suspended for twelve months and ordered to pay costs. Judge Darling stated that he was satisfied Crippen had not been defended as lie should have been. The case was conducted largely for the purpose of making newspaper copy, and others besides Newton deserved punishment. THE BIRKBECK BANK. London, July 12. The Court has ruled that the Birkbeck banking business is ultra vires, and that the shareholders are not liable for the losses of depositors, whose only claim is against the assets. LABOUR PARTIES. London, July 12. The “Standard” says the Labour Party has conferred with Mr Fisher as to the advisability of closer relations between the respective Labour Parties of the Empire by means •

of an interheange of communications, visits and conferences at regular intervals in the Motherland and each oversea Dominion in turn. Definite proposals were drafted, and would be discussed at a conference between the Labour Party and the Labour members of oversea Parliaments at Parliaments at the House of Comthe House of Commons next week.

OBITUARY. (Received 13, 10.5 a.m.) London, .July 13. The death is announced of Harold Strange, the principal witness m the Woolf-Joel murder case, and a member of the Jameson Reform Committee in 1895. MR FISHER FAREWELED. London, July 12. Mr Lloyd-George, Mr Harcourt, and other prominent men farewelled Mr Fisher from Victoria station. AUSTRALIAN CADETS. London, July 12.

Fifty Australian cadets are campV, at Eisley, seventy at Crystal Palace, and seventy are visiting the provinces. The cadets will tour France and Germany, visiting the field of Waterloo. They return by the Demosthenes on August 31st.

DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. (Received 13, 11.15 a.m.) Berlin, July 12. An oil store and adjoining cynaiuite factory at Wnrgcndorf, Westphalia, exploded, eight persons being killed and two injured. ACQUITTED. London, July 12. The. Hon. Galbraith Lowry-Cole has been acquitted on a charge of shooting and killing a native named Sionga, who was suspected of sheep-steal-ing at Makura, British East Africa. Mr Harcourt, replying to a question, said the official report of the trial would he published. A FINAL INTERVIEW. Loudon, July 12. Mr Fisher, in a final interview, said that after his rapid tour of the Kingdom there did not appear to be any part of the Old Country about to “put the shutters up.” Ho thanked the Government and the people for their splendid hospitality.