GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 126, 20 July 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Ottawa, July If). The Elder-Dompster liner Benda was quarantined at Montreal. There are two cases of suspected cholera on board. Pekin, July 19. The Government has prohibited the importation of Persian and Turkish opium from January, 1912. Brussels, July 19. Sipido, the assailant of the late King Edward (then Prince of Wales), jn 1900 has latterly boon a peaceful Citizen, and is a Socialist candidate for Brussels, at the next election. London,' July 19. The Houses of Lords and Commons Committee of Oversea Parliamentarians met in the House of Commons and decided to name the recent-ly-formed union “The Empire Parliamentary Association.” Ottawa, July 19. A Spanish matador applied for permission to hold a bull light at Toronto. The city police commissioners refused. Capetown, July 19. . A European store assistant / was fined at Bulawayo £3OO and sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour for importing obscene photographs and postcards and selling them to natives. Paris, July 19. The municipality of Lyons has imposed a tax of 10 frans a head on marriageable bachelors, and 5 per cent on rents over £lO a month, to help a fund in aid of large families. (Received 20, 8.25 a.m.) London, July 19. Mr Balfour, whose health has caused- slight anxiety, proceeds to Garf stein in August,

A sentry at the powder magazine at Gasport, during the night time, challenged the occupants of a boat not to approach the landing. Despite a further challenge they approached the magazine, and 1 the sentry fired at one of the figures, who was crouching in the shadow of a building, whereupon both disappeared in tiie boat. There is no clue. Foot and month disease is causing disquiet, it being difficult to chock. If it spreads to Romney Marshes, whereon are thousands of cattle and tens of thousands of sheep, the results will be disastrous. (Received "0, 1u.30 a.m.) London, July 19. Frank Moulder has applied to the Court of .Chancery to declare that the Issue of 10,000 £5 -shares in Moulder Bros., 'Ltd., last March had been fraudulently and cohesively made. After a lengthy hearing the action was settled by the plaintiff withdrawing the charges against defendants, who included other directors of Moulder Bros, and the Federal Steam Navigation Co. At the New. Zealand conceit at the Festival of Empire, the following took part; Aubrey Richardson (violinist)/Mabel Munson, Irene Ainsley £nd*-Ma?kftae Zela--{voeaifsts)?-iflangi-uia, in Maori costume, sang a mother’s song, war chant, and lament. Sir F. Cowen’s orchestra played Alfred Hill’s Maori symphony. Tho TTowell Bi'os. gave a violinccllo concert. The Reids are making satisfactory progress.

Aden, July 19. The Shereef of Mecca’s force relieved Absa after ten months’ siege. Capetown,: July 19. Nows from Livingstone states that the Okavango tribe in Ngamiland massacred the German district commissioner, Yon Frankenburgh, the patrol (which included two white sergeants and fourteen black police), and twenty' couriers. The Commissioner himself escaped on the only mule left. Ngamiland is British, but the frontier is not clearly defined. Paris, July 19. The Spanish Ambassador interviewed M. de Selves, French Minister for Justice, and promised that if the Spanish ' agents confirm the circumstance already reported of the French Consul’s arrest at Alcazar, Spain would admit it was unfair, express regret, and make tho necessary reparation. Berlin, July 19. f The “Vossische Zeitung” says a Japanese major attached to the Gorman artillery reserve was arrested on the parade ground at Raramclburg, Bavaria, at midnight, while examining a new tube recoil field gun with a dark lantern. Teheran, July 19. A new Cabinet has been formed of active disposition. The Nationalist leaders have hastened to assure the Government of their hearty support against the ex-Shah. The latter has left Odessa on the plea of taking a cure in Fiance, Opinion in Teheran attributed his landing to collusion and gross carelessness on fro part of the .Russian authorities, Russia being in opposition to Shuster's financial reform and Major Stoiker’s appointment. London, July 19. Mr John Burns, in opening tho conference of. tho National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, stated that the disease during thej last decade had decreased 19 per cent in England and Wales, 24 per ■ cent in both Scotland and Ireland, ; and JO per cent in London. There i wore now two deaths in London com- < pared with every three in Berlin and five in Paris. Consumption and tub- i erculosis were diminishing forces, and experts believed that their annihili- ' tion ought to be effected in twentyfive years. The Roebuck, a Channel mail boat, struck the Corbiere rock, Jersey, in 1 a fog. The- passengers wore saved, i A public holiday was 'observed in Edinburgh,' and crowds witnessed the i picturesque procession from Holyroocl to St. Giles’ cathedral, where the f King dedicated the Chapel of the I Thistle.