GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 7 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 5. A message from the Toronto Methodist Conference on tbe subject of Sunday observance will be read in all Methodist Churches in the United Kingdom on Sunday. Yesterday the weather was the coldest for ‘ls years. The temperature was four degrees below zero in London. There was a heavy snowstorm in the South of England. Mr Newton Moore, Agont-Clenoral for West Australia, at the ’Birmingham jewellers’ dinner, referring to Professor Caldicot’s proposal to cede the Australian Northern Territory to Gorman,y, said that if England, was inclined to listen to the recommendation she was pot in a position, to cede the territory of self-governing dominions. Tho Imperial Conferences had shown that a new situation was arising out of the dominions taking their part in Imperial questions and sharing in defence. It was impossible to conceive how Professor Caldicot’s extraordinary proposition could be adopted. The Countess de Mania blackmail ease has advanced another stage. Glendinning has been admitted to bail of £IOOO. Ewing’s trial has been postponed until April. Pago was not allowed bail. ’ ; Tho Queen Mother Alexandra, tho Prince of Wales and Princess Vic- , tori a boarded the Medina at Portsmouth and accompanied’ their Majesties to London. Tho party was accorded an enthusiastic welcome at Victoria' station, where Ministers and Ambassadors welcomed them. Sir George Reid’s office was .decorated with the emblems of six States and tho inscription: “Australia hopes to see tho King and Queen.” The Now Zealand office bore the inscription; “New Zealand welcomes their Majesties.” Tho Westralian and Tasmanian offices were beflagged. i Ottawa, February 5. The Niagara Falls ice bridge broke in mild weather. Mr and Mrs Stanton, of Toronto, and a lad of seventeen were carried down the stream and drowned. Four others escaped to the shore in the nick of time. Had the accident happened -later hundreds would have been imperilled as a crowd was arriving for the purpose of venturing out on tho ice bridge. At Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, a lunatic boarded a train oil the Cana-dian-Pacific oast-bound railway and shot a. passenger named John Klundt, a land seeker, and then committed suicide. A man and *his wife who had been previously • threatened left tho compartment at the previous station. ; ! ; 1 ;i ' n o „ : o ’Vancouver, February 5! Dynamiters blew up a safe in a butcher’s store at midnight and escaped with hundreds of dollars. New York, February 5. The British : steamer‘ Consols, cot-ton-laden from Galveston for Hamburg, was burnt and sank south of Cape Henry. Wireless secured assistance. The crew was rescued • and landed at Newport by the British steamer Castleden. •' I Mrs Hazzard, the “StaTyatiom’Doctor,” was found guilty of the murder of the girl Williamson. 'She was released on bail of £2OOO, pending ap-' peal to the Supreme Court. ' Brussels, February 5. Details of the rising in the Welle district of Africa show that the AValendu tribe massacred three principal chiefs, besides several hundred AVa- * hema tribesmen, and are now threatening Hu mu, in tho Boga region, which is garrisoned by Captain Goeffel and TOO soldiers. Berlin, February 5. Twelve degrees below zero has boon recorded. Ice-breakers were required to tho cruisers at Kiel. Paris, February 5. Captain lo Magnet, aeroplaning at St. Cyr, fell and was killed. Berne, February 5. A referendum by a large majority accepted tho federal proposals for workmen’s invalidity and accident insurance. t Constantinople, /February 5. The Porte expresses the hope that the Powers will prevent the realisation of the Cretan revolutionary aspirations. ,; •Jerusalem, February 5. \ Franciscans at Nazareth report the discovery of Joseph’s.workshop covered by the remains of the Crusaders’ Church. Calcutta, February 5. Tho ruling princes and chiefs, availing themselves of the conclusion of the Royal voyage, telegraphed a message to the British nation, expressing their attachment to the world-wide Empire, whose destiny is now indissolubly linked. The message adds that their Majesties’ visit intensified the loyalty and devotion of tho Indian people. Durban, February 5. Jhe steamer Wilcania is repaired and her cargo has been re-shipped. Capetown, February 5. Mr J. Beit, tho millionaire trader, urges the withdrawal of-; the University Bill and the appointment of a committee of experts to draft another. Tho draft is interpreted to mean that the AVernher Beit donation of £500,000 will otherwise bo withdrawn. TT o Bill is widely condemned because it restricts arts sciences and faculties to post graduates. The paper “A'olksstem” demands the retention of bilingualism at all costs.