GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

o CONSTTTUTION FOB PORTUGAL. By Electric Telegraph.—'Copyright. United Press Association. Lisbon, August 4. The Assembly adopted, by a large majority, the article in the Constitution establishing a two-chamber legislature. Sonors Braga and Dahnoida opposed the article. SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE. Capetown, August I.

General Smuts, speaking at Lyclenburg, said the South African defence

m home wouia be ready bv b'b. Ho hoped not to sec any other division than tho colour line in South Africa.

PORT OF LONDON IMPROVEMENTS.

London, Arrgust 4

The Port of London authorities commence eai ly in 1912 with the big dock scheme.

A NEW ZEALAND V.C

London, August 4

Dudley Stagpole, who won the Vic toria Cross in New Zealand in 1863 died at the Ware workhouse.

A PARLIAMENT HOUSE

DAMAGED

Ottawa, August 4

Fire damaged seriously a wing of the Provincial Parliament buildings at Toronto. The fire I)! igades saved the structure.

BOILER EXPLOSION

(Received 5, 8.0 a.m.) Berlin, August 4. A boiler explosion wrecked the cement works at Hamburg, six persons being killed. AMERICAN COTTON CROP. New York, August 4. Tiie cotton crop, as officially forecasted, will exceed all previous crops. The estimated value is one thousand million dollars. FRANCO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION TREATY. Paris, August 4. The American arbitration treaty was signed to-day. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. (Received 5, 9.25 a.rn.) Buda Pesth, August 4. By a fire in the village of Runatopova, 110 houses were destroyed, also much corn and cattle. Three hundred persons arc homeless. ' MR HENNICKER HEATON. • London, August 4. In presenting Mr Hennicker Heaton with an illuminated address on behalf of sixteen Australian and New Zealand banks, on the completion of penny postage, the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, said this groat boon was duo very largely to Mr Heaton’s energy, pluck, and indomitable industry. Mr Heaton, in acknowledging, said he hoped to be spared to see penny postage and penny word cables universal throughout the world.

YACHTING. King Alfonso, steering the Hispania w'on the cup at Cowes in tho fifteen metro class. RAILLESS ELECTRIC TRAMS. London, August 4. Mr Murray, Premier of Victoria, has returned from Scotland and the provinces. He is much impressed by tho system of railless electric trams attached to overhead wires in Leeds. Ho considers these suitable for connecting new suburbs with existing railways. i