GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 10 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WHEAT RUST IN CANADA

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Ottawa, August 9. From Winnipeg there arc frequent reports that black rust is affecting wheal crops, giving rise to apprehension that the harvest returns will be seriously lessened. PERSIAX AFFAIRS. (Received 10, 8.50 a.m.) London, August 9. Sir Edward Grey, in tho House . f Commons, said if Major Stokes’s up pointment included Northern Persia there were strong grounds for considering that it would ho incousist.mt with tho Anglc-Russian agreement. DUST AND REFUSE. London, August 9. Upon tho representations of the municipal authorities, Mr Gosling has arranged to allow the resumption of barging dust and refuse, which threatened to l)o a great public nuisance in hob weather. HOOLEY’S IMPRISONMENT. ' 10, 9.10 a.m.) The High Court refused an application for Henley’s release, j. dgc characterising the application as impertinent, A DISASTROUS WEDDING. (Received 10, 9.30 a.m.) Constantinople, August 9. A Jewish powder merchant was celebrating his wedding at Si’ian, in Yemen, Arabia, when a terrific explosion took place, and the bride, bridegroom, and twenty-eight- guests polished. Some were terribly mutilated. FATAL MOTOR DRIVE. Paris, AugaA 0. Ten medical students were motoring after a festive gathering, uhon the tyro burst and the motor clashed into a barber’s shop. Four of the occupants of tho motor were killed, and tho rest seriously injured.