GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH COAL SUPPLY. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. (Received IS, 8.5 b a.m.) London, September 17. An interesting newspaper controversy is proceeding between Sir Win. Ramsay and Dr. Wilson, president of the Association of .Mining Engineers, who alleges, that the- British coal supply will endure for six hundred years. IRISH HOME RULE. (Received 18, 8.5 a.m.) London, September 17. Fifty members of tlie Eighty Club are touring Ireland in connection with the Liberal Homo Rule proposals. Mr Redmond, at a reception in Dublin, said the visitors would find Ireland no longer a distressful and despondent country, but would find it beginning to prosper, and everywhere the peoplo were peaceful and loyal. DEATH OF AX EXPLORER. London, September 17. Obituary : Edward Whymper, explorer. . HORSE RACING" IN INDIA. Bombay, September 17. Sir- Sydenham Clarke’s announcement of the reduction of race .meetings in Western India, and the banishment of bookmakers and the substitution of the totalisator, embarrasses the Indian Government through involving State recognition of a certain method of betting. Sir Sydenham Claike did net consult the Government on the matter. ANGLO-AMERICAN TREATY. Now York, September 17. • President Taft has outlined a plan for overcoming opposition in the Senate to the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. He proposes to make an appointment of members to the High Commission, subject to the approval of the Senate; lie is also willing to wipe out the joint Commission if need arises. /

A NOTED CRIMINAL. New York, September 17. Edward Davis, an assistant Manitoba school teacher, has been arrested at North Dakota, and is alleged to 1)0 a noted convict who escaped from prison years ago, when he killed several guards. ENTERITIS. (Received 18, 9.15 a.m.) London, September 17. Two hundred and fifty deaths from enteritis were reported at Nottingham in six.weeks, the majority being.children. PRINTING OFFICE BURNED. Rio do Janeiro, September 17. The national planting office has been burned, the loss being £600,000. VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES. Santiago (Chili) September 17. A violent earthquake, occurred in the nitrate district round Iquique. The telegraph is interrupted. A CLUE THAT FAILED. '(Received 18, 8.5 a.m.) London, Sept’muer 17. The bank note clue in the stcr robbery failed, owing to a mistake made in the issued list of the numbers of the stolen notes.