LATEST MESSAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 18 October 1911, Page 6

LATEST MESSAGES.

BRITISH MINISTRY,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) • (Received 18, 11.10 a.m.) London, October 17. Discussing current reports regarding: changes in the Ministry, the

“Standard” asserts that’ Mr. LloydGeorge will take the leadership of the Commons, "with irregular visits from Mr.; Asquith, who is averse to an autumn session.

NATIONAL INSURANCE

London, October 17. Mrs. Pomber Beeves, at the Women’s Institute, declared that married; women will have to economise in their, families’ ( food, to enable their husbands to pay insurance. ;; : . PORTUGAL. Lisbon, October 17. Bands of Monarchists are still on fbrt Spanish frontier. It is believed they are trying to organise a rising in the Upper Minho provinces. Spanish cavalry captured one hundred Royalists. A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS. ■ - Paris, October 17. There were series of accidents during gun practice on the cruiser Lavossier at Toulon, and a quantity of povtdor was thrown overboard. THE WAR. Vienna, October 17. It is pomi-officially announced that the Powers have ceased their efforts at mediation, as Italy is determined on annexation of Tripoli. A UNITARIAN~MINISTER. (Received 18, 11.30 a.m.) ( London, October 17. The Rpv. Mt. Wooding, representing the British and Foreign Unitariaria,' has sailed on a visit to Australian and' New Zealand churches. CANADIAN POLITICS. (Received 18, 12.10 p.m.) . ! . ' Ottawa, October 17. Parliament has .been summoned to meet on November 15fh. Extensive reforms in the Militia Departments are promised, and a readjustment of outstanding provincial grievances is' planned. The reciprocity agreement will not‘appear in the House again. AVIATION. New York, October 17. UAt Stampoul an aviator named Robinson began a flight down the valley of the Mississippi to Minneapolis and New Orleans. He started at a Mile per minute, and is following the river route for, the entire distance. ■ BANK ROBBERY. . London, October 17. The police have arrested a man in whose lodgings was found £SOOO in German bank notes, which it is believed is part of the robbery of £7OOO from the Saarbrucken Bank. RUSSIAN PRINCE ASSASSINATED (Received 18, 1.45 p.m.) St. Petersburg, October 17. .- A student, named Kristi, rushing into a saloon carriage at Novotcurkask, fired three shots from a revolver at, and mortally wounded, Prince Troubetski, a member of the Council of the Empire.