GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (-Received 20, 8.5 a.in.) London, Decernuer 19. Arrived: lonic, trorn Wellington. UOituary: George R. Miln-Murray, scientist. twelve fanners have been arrested on cnarges of cattle-driving arising out of seizures for rent on uord ohgo's estate. ■ \V. 1. Jones’s estate has been sworn at £102,530. 'llio judgment .states that the Olympic was responsible for the JtlawKs collision. Colonel Seeley, addressing the Aeronautical Society, said the Cm eminent was determined tiiat Great Britain would no longer be behind in the use of aeroplanes for war purposes. "ms Times” says the appearance of Mr. Lloyd-George and Sir Edward Grey in full war-paint in the Suffragist camp should force Mr. Asquith to take off his coat to combat a policy winch lie regards as very disastrous. There is much newspaper and club criticism at the Premier's peculiar position, it is understood that Messrs. Harcourt, McKenna, Hobhouse, and Samuel, Lords Loreburn and Crewe,, and Mr. Churchill are against woman suffrage, while Lord’ Haldane, Messrs. Burns, Birrell, Buxton, Runciman, Morley, and Simmon favour it. In the Olmpic-Hawke enquiry Mr. I Justice Evans decided tnat the i Olympic’s pilot took an over-wide sweep round the West Bramble buoy and having the Hawke on ins starboard, should have made way. The Board of Education has decided to make grants for' kiuematograph displays at day continuation schools. Copper, spot £62 7s 6d, Jdiree monins £63 ss. Electrolytic, £6-1 10s. j T in, spot £203 ss, three months £193 15s. Lead, £ls 10s. j Wheat; Two Australian cargoes and ] fifteen thousand quarters by sailer, I January-February shipments, sold at : 365. A cargo and thirteen thousand i quarters or Victorian, December | shipment, at 36s 3d. Silver, 25 3-16 d. . j Cyril Jackson has succeeded Hayes j Fisher in the leadership of the ‘Mu- ■ nicipal Reform Party in the London County Council. • Washington, December 19. I Mr. Taft, in a message to Con- i gross, asks rJf the ratification or abrogation of the Russian Treaty. New York, December 19. A fire at Chicago destroyed the Board of Trade building, and frightened thousands of guests in three hotels. A number of records of the Chicago Federation of Labour were destroyed. Incendiarism is suspected. Guests at the Kaisersoff, Victoria, and Sanford hotels, adjoining, were panic-stricken, but left the building safely. An application by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company at St. Louis, asking for the appointment of ; receivers on the Wabash .Railway, \ has been granted. Billy Smith, a former prize-fighter, \ quarrelled with the Chief of Police jj at St. Louis, who shot Smith ,pro- » bably fatally. The chief recently 1 married Smith’s divorced wife. Paris, December 19. \ Armand Quinstand, shopkeeper, (• and three accomplices, have been ar- 1 rested for defrauding British, French | and German firms for £IOO,OOO. They | obtained on credit and sold • them cheaply. * The Ministry of Commerce severe- ( ly condemns hobble skirts, and f states that if this style of dress is ' persisted in Paris will cease to be the centre of fashions. Tangier, December 19. The Fifes have sailed for Egypt. The Delhi is gradually filling. The i crew and forty cases of gold have n been landed. i Delhi, December 19. | Land values have increased four- I fold since the change of Capital an- g