GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 5 February 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Tress Association.) London, February 2. Seventy thousand pounds have been collected by the Young Men’s Christian Association. Mr Pierpont Morgan has offered the last £IO,OOO to complete the £150,000 required. Presbyterians representing half a million adherents attended eleven mootings in connection with the Belfast convention. There wore a hundred speakers. Every suitable hall and several churches were engaged. A diplomatist, writing to the “Daily Express,” denies that the meeting of ex-King Manuel and Don Miguel is connected with the claim to' the throne, saying it was merely a personal reconciliation. He adds that while he is on English soil, ex-King Manuel is pledged not to abuse his asylum. The British Medical Association’s reform committee has drafted an amending Bill providing that no person with an income exceeding a hundred and four pounds is entitled to medical benefits and no one with an income below sixty-five is excluded. The minimum capitation fee for doctors is fixed at ten shillings. Twenty suffragettes awaited at Charing Cross the Premier’s return from the Continent and vainly endeavoured to intercept him. Lord Stanmore was buried at South Ascot. The New Zealand Government sent a wreath. Heavy snowstorms in the north arc impeding traffic. General Booth is better. The Bishop of Oxford, addressing the Christian Social Union at Westminster, denounced churchmen’s traditional indifference to the social obligations of the church. People ought not to do mere salvage work when too late, but should assist in the abolition of slums and other evils, thus giving the masses a chance to reach a higher level. Mr and Mrs Sedclon have been committed for trial on a charge of the murder of Eliza Barrow, who was lodging with them and who was induced. by the Scddons to give them her property, including £I6OO worth of India stock in consideration for their paying her at £3 weekly. Witnesses testified that Mrs Seddon negotiated banknotes alleged to belong to Barrow, also that Seddon’s daughter purchased arsenical flypapers. Silver, 26 13-16 d. Oscar Asche and Lily Brockton have “sailed in the Otranto. The remaining 45 members of the company sail rin the Osterley. i ' Paris, February 2. M. Millerand.has abolished the system of prefects receiving.,reports concerning the army officers invented by M. Combos in order to extirpate autiRepublican clerical, influences. The system has since developed into intolerable espionage conducted by the civil authorities, including secret denunciation of officers whose only offence was that they attended mass. Berlin, February, 2. Herr Solf has issued an order forbidding the marriage of Germans with natives in Samoa. , Marriages already contracted will be treated as legal, the children thereof being considered as Germans, but future offspring of irregular marriages will bo treated as natives. Germany has twelve military dirigible balloons and thirteen others. France has fifteen military and six others. St. Petersburg, February 2. There have been remarkably enthusiastic scenes at Moscow during the welcoming of the British Parliamentary visitors. Capetown, February 2. Obituary:' Major-General iScohell, from enteric fever. Sofia, February 2. The Crown Prince of Greece, visiting here in connection with the coming of age of Prince Boris, received an ovation. XVcw Tork, February 2. An earthquake at Cordova, Alaska, led to a terrific storm sweeping the Alaskan coast. The stores at Cordova wore wrecked and the lighting plant destroyed. -- Ottawa, February 2.

Mr Bosworth, vice-president of the Canadian-Pacific Railway, announces that new Pacific steamers are being built for the Oriental trade. They will be convertible into war cruisers. ,

Mr Pelleher, Postmaster-General, intends to press the Imperial Government for further reductions in cable tolls throughout the Empire, particularly with reference to Canada.

An armed, unmasked man held up a cafe in the main street of Vancouver and secured £BO. Ho escaped. A. score of guests in the building made no effort to prevent the robbery. A fire in Halifax, Nova Scotia, destroyed the Arcadia Sugar Refining Company’s plant. The damage is estimated at a million dollars, and one employee is missing. Washington, February 2. There was a spirited debate in the Senate on the question of taking a rote on the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty, Senator Hayburn blocked an early vote. Constantinople, February 2. Young Turk circles are seriously apprehensive, owing to the steady improvement in Greco-Bulgarian relations. The newspaper Tanin hints that if the reapproachment is aimed at Turkey the latter will seek an ally across the Bulgarian territory. FI Paso, February 2. Gomez has been proclaimed provisional president of Mexico by the garrison, which revolted from Jaurez.