GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

. EXTENSIVE DA3 i AG ES. (Received 11, 9/30 a m.) Loudon, ('-.'leber 10. In the. case where the Municipal Council of Johannesburg sued Stewart and Co. and their guarantors (B.cardmore and Co.), claiming £ IOO.000 for failure to complete the installation of an engineering electrical plant, the Court of Sesshus at Edinburgh decreed that the firms of Beardmofe and .Stewart were jointly liable for £105,134, .which was the extent of the liability guaranteed by Beardmore; and that Stewart and Co. were-also liable for £225,013. F(l0T AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, October 10. Sir Edward Strachey, Parliamentary;.Secretary for Agriculture, stales that foot and mouth disease ;n fcernersbt is-serious 'in nine centres. The disease is not traceable to foreign feeding/stuffs. LOCK-OUT AVOIDED. ’/ - : I Lbhdbh, October 10. A/lock-out in Laficashire lias been .aVoiSed, non-unionists agreeing to join' unions. ' TRAIN WRECKERS. • Calcutta, October 10. Anarchists, who attempted to derail, thirty trains in Eastern Bengal, tore up eighteen feet of railways in ptdor to wreck the.. Darjiling mail, ■ivhibh was crowded with travellers, in'duding several high officials returning from their holidays. A goods train following the mail was completely wrecked, the driver and fireman being seriously injured. . i;. ■. . TROUBLE IN CHINA. ■ ' Peking, October 10. Revolutionaries at Hankau planned to seize Wuchang. Twenty-eight were arrested atid four beheaded.