GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 16 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE HEAT WAVE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Berlin, August 15. The temperature is 101 in the shade. Serious forest fires* arc raging. A PRESIDENT DEPOSED. Quito, August 15. Revolutionaries have deposed tho President, who is taking refuge in the Chilian Legation. SOME FIGURES ABOUT IRELAND. London, August 15. The Registrar-General’s report on Ireland states that in 1910 the births exceeded the deaths by 27,0G9. The loss by emigration was 32,457. Tho decrease in tuberculosis mortality has been steadily maintained. THE WINE TRADE. London, August 15. The Wine Trade Review predicts that there will bo an excellent European vintage, with an average yield. TRADE OF ThFeMPIRE COMMISSION. London, August 15. Mr Lloyd-Georgo, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said Mr L. Harcourt, Secretary for the Colonies, was now in communication with tho dominions relative to the composition of the Royal Commission on Empire Trade. BOTTOMLESS CASE. (Received IG, 8.0 a.m.) London, August 15. Mrs Curtis denies that a compromise has been effected between Bottomley and herself. LONDON TEMPERATURE.

London, August 15

The temperature exceeded 80 degrees in London for eight days in succession. EXTENSIVE HEATH FIRE. . London, August 15. A heath fire five and a half miles long swept the Surrey Hills, threatening the sanatorium and dwellings. Five hundred troops were despatched from Aldershot to cut down a bolt of trees and avert danger. VOLCANO IN ERUPTION. (Received IG, 8.20 a.m.) Tokio, August 15. Asama is in eruption to-day. It is feared thirty who were climbing the mountain, > including several foreigners, have perished. THE POPE. (Received 16, 9.45 a.m.) . ~ Rome, August 15. The Pope passed a restless night, suffering from pain in the knee. His temperature rose and fell, but he was better in the morning. SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, August 15. Lewis, who shot a native at Buluwayo for alleged indecency towards Lewis’s daughter, has been retried and acquitted on the charge of murder. A large crowd cheered the verdict.