GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRIAN POLITICS. (By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Vicuna, November 1. The Gautsch Cabinet has resigned, owing to the absence of a working majority .

COST OF LINERS

Loudon, November 1

The South African Government, enquiring among shipbuilders in Britain, ascertained that a licet of seven mail steamers will cost £3.500.000.

CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIS

London, November 1

There are thirty cases of cerebro spinal meningitis at Stokesdown, 'lucre have been six deaths.

AN IMPERIAL HOSPITAL,

London, November 1. Lord Anglesey, Lientenent-General Sir J. Bevan Edwards, Captain Rason, Mr. Ben Morgan, and Dr. Harvey Hilliard have raised a fund of £IB,OOO to erect in Vincent Square, Westminster, a well-equipped Imperial hospital, to provide for patients from oversea dominions, and also English provinces, at moderate charges. Forty beds will he provided at the outset, and more adequate facilities for operations will be afforded than in private nursing homes. Special consideration will be given to patients accredited by Agents-Goneral.

PLAGUE

(Rccoivod 2, 8.5 a.m.) London., November 1

Tho Local Government Board announces that a seaman admitted to tho Bhotloy naval barracks at Suffolk on the 10th October developed symptoms of pneumonia, hut when bis sputum was examined plague bacilli was found. The source of tho infection lias not been ascertained. There is no other case.

PAYING AN OLD CLAIM

Washington, November 1. The House Committee has opened an enquiry regarding the connection of the ex-Sscretary of State (Mr. Foster) and Mr. E. H. Conger (late Minister in China) with the payment of £70,000 to tho heirs of General Ward, who was killed in the Chinese rebellion cf 1862. The money is alleged to have come out of tho Boxer indemnity fund. It is stated that great influence was brought to boar on Prince Clung to allow a forty-years’ old claim to he paid from a recently created fund.

DEAR FOOOD RIOTS

(Received 2, 10.35 a.m.) Paris, November 1

Romillier, secretary of the Amalgamated Trade Union at Finistere, lias been sentenced to three, .years’ imprisonment, and fined one thousand Francs, for inciting to thel’tj and urging soldiers to insubordination during tho recent dear food riots.

A CHINESE CONSUL-GENERAL

(Received 2. 9.30 a.m.)

London, November 1. Hwong Y T nng Lian has been gazetted Consul-General for China in Melbourne for tho Commonwealth.

SLANDER ACTION

Capetown, November 1

Mr Fraser, school inspector, was awarded a verdict for £25 in his slander action against General Hertzog.