GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 88, 27 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BOER UNION DISSOLVES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Capetown, November 24. The Orangie Union has voluntraily dissolved. TURKISH PRINCE HONOURED. (Received , 25, 8.5 a.m.) Cairo, November 24. In honour of the King’s visit the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order has been conferred on Prince Yusuf Iz/.ed-diu, the Sultan of Turkey’s eldest sou. RIOTERS IMPRISONED. London, November 24. Twenty-one colliers received sentences ranging from three months to a year in connection with the late Cambrian Mines t The oil-mill strike at'Hull has been settled on the basis of advances of a shilling to two shillings a week among tiie lower grade workers and the establishment of a joint board. SMUGGLING CHINESE.

New York, November 24. A large Chinese smuggling plot has been discovered at Chicago, where twenty men are being charged with bringing Chinese wholesale into the United States. Arrests have also been made at New York and Detroit. The Chinese first entered Canada. Then a syndicate smuggled’ them over ! the frontier hi I den in 'freight:'dais’. Other arrests are planned. ( WRECKED 'PASSENGERS. ; tr >j New York, November 24. It is announced that the Ward liner Seguarancia has arrived at Nassau with the passengers off the wrecked steamer Prinz Joachim aboard. CHARGES DENIED. New York, November 24. Mr Rockefeller denies the charges made by Merritt Bros, regarding the Mesaba Mines, and submits a paper signed by his accusers admitting the baselessness of the charges. A PRISONER RELEASED. New York, November 24. Morse, a banker, serving terms in the penitentiary, has been pardoned on tiie ground of ill-health. MR. E. T. HOOLEY. London, November 24. Mr E. T. Hooley lias been committed for trial, the bail being £4OOO. FAMOUS PICTURE RECOVERED. Rome, November 24. The police at Florence have recovered Fra Angelico’s picture Madonna Della Stella, stolen from the San Marco Convent.;;;' CHAMPION WRESTLERS. ! Newi York, November 24. ; , Gooqh meets ; Hackenschmidt, the German champion,', at Minneapolis on November fiOth.. ? • i ’' DESTROYER FOUNDERS. ; ' Tokio, November 24. The destroyer Purusame foundered at Cape Shyna during a gale. Fortylive were drowned. , SIXTY DROWNED. Vienna, November 24. A sir’pcco has been .raging in the Adriatic Sea for three days. Shipping is ’much damaged. Romania was wrecked at Rovigo. Sixtyare reported to have been drowned. i FRENCH TRAIN TRAGEDY. Paris, November 24. One passenger in the railway disaster at Saumur was hauled up within a yard of the top of the embankment when a rope broke and he was drowned. A survivor describes the desperate struggles of the occupants of one compartment to escape. The water was reaching almost to the roof but all eventually got free.

"Herr Von Dallwitz, Prussian Minister of tlie interior, lias declared war on the motor horn. In a decree just issued lie declares that unecessary blowing of motor signals, either by day, or night will be regarded as a misdemeanor and a breach of the peace, and will be punished accordingly. “Do you know wha tthe Eastern Asia Association is?” inquired Mr Wilford of the Hutt electors the other night (says the Post.) “Do you know,” lie continued, “what is coming to in this country? Why, only a year ago certain Japanese landed in this country, and what did they do?” Answering his own question, the candidate went into details and said that while at Wellington the emissaries in question went into big firms of booksellers (which he named) and bought every plan of the city, its harbour, and its environs in the shop., The manager himself informed him of 'that. The next day they went to the City Council and prefaced a string' of enquiries about that body’s tramways and water services, etc., udth the bland platitude, “We take a great interest in the municipal scheme of your city.” One of the visiting Japanese then followed the pipe-line of the waterworks to the reservoir, while another was espied surveying the city from the heights of the Iv el bur no Kiosk. Further, the depths of the-harbour had not escaped their attention, for, to his certain knowledge, the soundings of Port Nicholson were all stored up in Tokio. Generalising, Mr Wilford said that in the fight between nations the weak and unprepared would always go to ■jffie wall, and he held this lip as a warning to those who decried the Dreadnough gift and the compulsory military training. New Zealand was not yet sufficiently alive to its danger from invasion, as was seen in the fact that it had contributed practically only one Dreadnought for .60 years’ protection.