GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 23 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

OBITUARY. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 23, 5.40 a.in.) London, August 22. The death has occurred of Lord diaries Scott, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Australian station. Sir Harry Yelverton Goring, formerly private secretary to Sir George Grey in New Zealand, is dead. MORTGAGE AND AGENCY CO.

London, August 22. Messrs Moncrioff and Horsburgh, secretaries to the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., expect that the final sales of the properties held will enable the Company to ultimately repay preference stockholders 90 per cent, and reduce the amount of stock outstanding. DROUGHT IN ENGLAND. (Received 23, 9.45 a.in.) London, August 22. There have been M 5 rainless days in London this year. The drought, has now broken. j INDIAN FAMINE. London, August 22. Private advices state that the Indian monsoon is a failure, and a famine is threatened in a large area. THE ARETHUSA ASHORE. (Received 23, 10.25 a.m.) Monte Video, August 22. The Arethusa, bound for Adelaide, ia ashore on a bank. She is in a bad position. FATAL EXPLOSION. \ Paris) August 22. Two workmen at the Mention Aerodrome’ were carrying a tube of compressed hydrogen, when an explosion occurred, and both were killed. ESPERANTO CONGRESS. (Received 23, 10.40 a.m.) Brussels, August 22. A congress of two thousand Esperantists, including 600 British representatives, is being held at Antwerp. ALPINE FATALITIES. Geneva, August 22. There have been many Alpine fatalities this summer. Six persons iiavo been killed in the last few days.