GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A BANKER KILLED

By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. United Press Association. London, August 13. Edward Broaclie‘Hoaro, director of Lloyd’s Bank, was killed while motoring at Kent Fields. THE POPE. .A. (Received 14, 8.5 a.m.) Rome, August 13. The Pope passed a restless night from renewed pain in the knee. EAST AFRICAN TRADE. (Received 14, 9.25 a.m.) Loudon, August 13. It. is stated that the Gorman Shipping Companies’ withdrawal from the South African Shipping Conference was due to a desire for concessions in the East African trade, which they regard as their special preserve. OBITUARY. The Hague, August 13. Tin death is announced of Josef Israels, the famous Dutch painter.

[The principal paintings of deceased arc:-—“Old and Worn Out,” “Silent Conversation,” “The Frugal Meal,” “Past Mother’s Grave,” “Domestic Sorrow,” “The Eve of the Separation,” “From Darkness to Light,” “The Pancake,” “They Poor of the Village,” “The Shoemaker,” “A Cottage Madonna,” “The Tranquil ' House,” “The Shipwrecked,” “The Cradle,” “The True Support,’’ “The Mother,’ ’“The Children of the Sea,” “Minding the Flock,” “Tho Little Sick Nurse,’ ’“The Sower.”] RAILWAY MTSHAP., (Received 14, 9.5 a.m.) Loudon, August 13. A passenger train at Glasgow, owing to the brakes failing to act, crashed into a deadend at the Queen Street station, jumped the platform and wont through the wall of a refreshment room. Five persons were injured. The Provost of Glasgow had a narrow escape. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. London, August 13. Owing to the murder of Mr James, District Commissioner at Forcadoncs (North-cast Africa) by tribesmen, a punitive expedition has left Lagos. - AN IRISH CELEBRATION. •i . London, August 13. There was a great demonstration at Londonderry to celebrate the relief of Derry. The Duke of Absrcorn telegraphed that he hoped the gathering would prove to tho English that Ulster would not permit its separation from the United Kingdom. MAWSON’S MONOPLANE. ‘ ,5 >KT London, August 13. -v/iThe..monoplane, to be used in Mawfsoi&S) Antarctic expedition lias been tasted’/ and Mr Watkins believes he could remain iu the air five hours with a passenger, and he able to cover 250 miles in the final dash for the Pole] KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. Berlin, August 13. Tho Mayor of Hamburg unveiled a tablet to the memory of King Edward in the presence of the Kaiser, who was attired as a British Admiral. The Kaiser sent, a cordial telegram to King George. DISASTROUS FIRES. St. Petersburg, August 13. Three hundred houses were burned at Kohtroma, and twenty-eight persons killed and fifty injured. By another fire in tho same vicinity 290 bouses wore destroyed. SOUTH : AFRICAN CENSUS. Capetown, August 13. The census 'shows the population of the Union of all the races to lie 5,938,499 —Europeans 1,278,025, natives 4,061,082, and the rest from other countries. A feature of the returns is a shrinkage in the coast towns, except Durban, and increases in Johannesburg and Pretoria, where there has been a .steady increase iu nati/.’.s and other coloured races.