GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 27 December 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, December 23

The War Office lias purchased a Deperdussian monoplane of French army type. The Australasian League football team yesterday defeated the Rochdale Hornets by four tries, three of which were converted, to two unconverted 'tries. In the first spell Gilbert and Farnsworth each scored trios, both of which were converted by Francis. Frawley and Farnsworth both scored tries in the second half. Francis converted one. "The Times” declares that the demand for the minimum wage is one of the untoward results of the eighthours system, and adds that the men are now earning less than formerly. The Newcastle carters’ strike has been settled on the basis of an advance of Is per week in wages. Owing to the Lancashire loci'-out the subcommittee of the G moral Federation of Trade Unions wul shortly consider the question of calling out all members of unions not involved in the dispute or the establishment of a fighting fund to meet future similar emergencies in any given trade. The non-unionist difficulty arose in the Nelson and Colne districts in midLancashire owing to the Weavers’ Union declining to recognise the separate trade union which the Catholics created in consequence of the secularist resolution adopted by the Trades Union Congress. Herr Reinhardt’s “Miracle” was produced last night at the Olympia Theatre, which was transformed into a Gothic cathedral. It was a remarkable spectacle. Hundreds of actors and two thousand supernumaries were engaged. A man named Whitaker, an electrician, was electrocuted on tbe stage of the girls’ school at Rochester while superintending the limelight apparatus during the presentation of an operetta. While handling an arc lamp his wet boots touched a regulator and the shock which passed through his body killed him. Sir Ernest Cassel, a well-known financier, has given £50,000 to a London hospital as a memorial to his only daughter, Mrs Wilfrid Ashley, who died early in February last. Messrs W. Boardmore and Co., of Dalmuir, and Messrs Vickers, Sons and Maxim, of Barrow, have each contracted to build a battleship more powerful than the King George. The firms have a working agreement enabling them to arrange for plans, patterns and castings on an economical basis. It is understood that despite the continued agitation no further battleship is likely to be built at the Thames ironworks. A British Cement Combine has been formed. An agreement with tiio Associated Cement Company has been arranged with a combined capital of £12,000,000. It controls five-eighths of the British output. Berlin] December 24. The Deutsoh Atlantisch Telegraphen is negotiating with 'the Secretary for Posts and Telegraphs for the establishment of deferred reduced' press rates similar to those conceded the Postal; Union. . i .-Jit , 4 ' , i , Pairis, > (December 24. Commenting upbn the icounter proposals iof Spain slightly modifying the (French I project regarding the Spanish share! in Morocco,"i“Le■ Temps?’ says that ,they ■ are impracticable'. It declares . that France cannot accept the co-existence of two protectorates in Morocco. A scheme for exchanges of students between the Universities of Paris and London has l -been sanctioned. , , Madam Longevin is satisfied with the order for separation from Professor Langevin granted her three days ago, and will not proceed with the charge of infidelity, in which Madame ,Cill*re f ls joined as; co-’rospondent. Fiftyjfpur fishethicif were drowned diVrihw'tue gales'. ' “Twenty wives have' been widowed and seventy-five children* have been made fatherless. The, booty secured by the four armed robbers who, on the 20th instant, shot a bank messenger at Montmartre and escaped in a motor car after stealing a great quantity of coin and securities, totalled £2U,000. The automobile in which the robbers made their escape was found at Dieppe. It is believed that the. gang is now in London. New York, December 24. Charles W. Morse, at one time a prominent banker and known as the “ico King,” who was sentenced in 1908 to fifteen years’ imprisonment on a charge of misapplying the funds of the Mercantile National Bank, is seriously ill and his recovery is doubtful. Ottawa, December 24. Kenneth Kingston, a surveyor, was shot in tiic back in the Saskatchewan woods under mysterious circumstances. The police are investigating tire crime. Mr Donald Mann, the head of the Canadian Northern Railway Company, states that it is contemplating the establishment of Australian and Oriental steamship services after the opening of the Panama Canal. The work of constructing the Hudson’s Bay railway which was interrupted pending an investigation and award in connection with the contract entered into by the Laurier Government;, will bo proceeded with immediately. The railway will be owned and operated by the Government. Mr Bourassa, leader of the Nationalists in tfie Dominion House of Commons, attacked Colonel S. Hughes, Minister of Militia, on the ground of the latter’s advocacy of military training. Mr Bourassa declared that Oofonel Hughes had invited 25,000 school boys to become debauchers and to play the fool at the State’s expense. Colonel Hughes replied goodnumoursdly That if Mr Bourassa had received military training in his youth he would bo a truly great man. It would afford him (Colonel Hughes) great pleasure 4o gazette Mr Bourassa as major in command of a squadron of mounted rifles or hussars. St. Petersburg, December 24. The Octobrists have introduced a Bill in the Duma in retaliation for the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 between Russia and the United States. The Bill provides for the imposition of double tiie present duties on American goods and also for the taxation of goods which hitherto have been exempt irom duty at the rate of 100 per cent, ad valorem. It also doubles the port and harbour dues on American vessels. Lisbon, December 23.

It now appears that the mutineers at Braga resented the discipline to which they were subjected. They entrenched themselves in the barracks, out were eventually overawed and were sent to Oporto. Tfie Minister of War, ■ speaking in tlie Chamber, suggested that the insubordination of the men was the result of the anti-lle-publican atmosphere in the district, i-le said he intended to repeal the lenient clauses of the military code, and declared that mn undisciplined army was merely a mob in the use of which there was great danger.