GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 21 November 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CRYSTAL PALACE SOLD. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, November 18. The sale of the Crystal Palace lias been confirmed. The price was £210,UUO sterling. KAISER IMPROVING. iterlin, November 18. The Kaiser is improving. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE. Berlin, November 18. Reuter denies the Crown Prince s arrest.

STEAM ER F OUNDEES. Copenhagen, November 18. The Russian steamer Hermann Lerche foundered in a gale in the North Sea. pne crew of 29 men perished. MIXED MARRIAGES. Ottawa November 19. A Bill has been introduced annulling the eifect oi the “no temere” decree throughout Canada and makes valid any marriage ceremony in any province before any accredited authority, Catholic or Protestant.

FROST ON MARS. New York, November IS. Professor Lowell announces from Flagstaff, Arizona, the discovery of frost on the planet Mars, and adds that a close observation during a fortnight affords complete proof that the old theory of polarcaps on Mars, due to carbon dioxide, is now discredited.

LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. Now York, November JB. A fifth jury panel in the Los Angeles dynamite outrage case have been selected.

WARSHIP LAUNCHED. (Received 20, 8.5 a.m.) London, November 19. Mrs Churchill launched the Centurion.

A BIG LOCK-OUT. (Received 20, 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, November 19. As a sequel to the metal-workers’ strike, the masters locked out sixty thousand men.

A LONG SENTENCE. (Received 20, 8.85 a.m.) Paris, November 19. Corporal Deschamps was to twenty years’ imprisonment for stealing a mitrailleuse and soiling it to Germany.

VENEZUELAN AFFAIRS. (Received -0, 8.15 a.m.) London, November 19. The Venezuelan Consulate is advised that Castro was defeated at San Christo bill.

A PROJECTED RAILWAY. (Received 20, 8.15 a.m.) Calcutta, November 19. The chie£ engineer of the OudcRohilcund railway, is enquiring as to the possibility of a railway from Karachi to the Persian Gulf.

AN ALLEGED MASSACRE. (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) Paris, November 19. According to “Le Matin”' SurgeonMajor Legendre,' Captain Noir and Lieutenant Dossirier, conducting a scientific expedition in remote parts of Southern China, were massacred.

POSTAL ADMINISTRATION. (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) Paris, November 19. A non-official committee of sixtyfive senators, deputies and shipping and commercial men and journalists has been appointed to deal with complaints and suggestions for improving the postal administration.

SOLDIERS ABANDON ARMS. (Received 20, 8.15 a.m.) Paris, November 19. A number of gunners and infantrymen were sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment for cowardice and abandoning their arms during the panic at the funeral of the Liberto victims. A STRIKE SETTLED. (Received 20, 8.45 a*.m.) Paris, November 19. The hours of workmen at Lorient were rearranged and work was resumed.

ARREST FOR STEALING PICTURES. (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) Berlin, November 19. Sunder Forester has been arrested for stealing the pictures reported missing from Lnstschloss. INACCURATE CALCULATIONS. (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) Capetown, November 19. The report of the commission on the alleged loss of gold ata the East Rand mine states that there was no real loss. The discrepancy in the calculations was due to the omission of certain factors.

KIDNEY PUNCH CONDEMNED. (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) , Loudon, November 19. At yin inquest on Timothy Atkinson, Bermondsey, a professional boxer, the coroner remarked that the National Sporting Club rules ought to prohibit the kidney punch.

ENGLISH STRIKERS IMPRISONED (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) London, November 19.

Alfred Baker, signalman, and live colliers were sentenced to three months at Warwick. Two other colliers got two months for intimidating Midland railway men at Stockingford dining i+.Vio rnnont st.rilvP..

QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, November 20. At a sitting of the Electoral .Court before Mr Kettle, S.M., this morning pointed objection was taken to Mrs L. E. Humes’s remaining on the roll on the ground that by having married an American citizen who had not been naturalised as a British subject slio had forfeited her national status and could not vote. She bad lived in New Zealand for -it years and was previously on the roll at Hamilton. Albert Humes, her husband, said bo had travelled pretty well all over the world on behalf of a firm whose headquarters were in Chicago. The Magistrate expressed a wish that the case bad been taken to the Full Court to get an authoritative ruling. It is of some importance and of groat interest. By section 10 of the English Election Act a married woman is doomed to lie a subject of the State of which her husband for the time being is a subject. Mrs Humes lost her ns a British subject when she married an American citizen. The Magistrate instructed that Mrs Humes’s name be removed from the roll.