GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 14 February 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 12. A crowd of GOO at Larne pelted Lord Pirric with rotten eggs, herrings, and small bags of flour, and called him “traitor!” “turncoat!” Lord Pirrie boarded a steamer going to London under police protection. The Admiralty’s apparatus being insufficient, it lias surrendered the salvage of the AO submarine to the An-glo-Italian Salvage Co., all the English companies being in full work. The steamer Wychwood collided with the Norwegian steamer Torbay in a fog off Calister. The Torbay foundered so quickly that seven were downed. The Wychwood picked up ten. The Chancery Court lias decided that owing to the domicile of the Duchess of Manchester being American her personalty is liable to English estate duty. The London managers of sixteen Australian and New Zealand banks banqueted Mr George in celebration of ihis jubilee with the bank of New South Wales and presented him with a gold cup. The German barque Pindos from Chili to Hamburg has been wrecked at the Lizard. A life-boat gallantly rescued the crew of twenty-seven. Calcutta, February 12. Miss Eva Montstephens has been committed for trial for poisoning bliss Garnet Orme. Accused was a believer • , I m crystal gazing. Miss Orme became interested and eventually saw evidence of her immediate death when she mysteriously died. Accused benefited by the will. ,

Paris, February 12. A smuggler’s autocar containing li tons of tobacco dashed over the Belgian frontier. An exciseman pursued, and wounded one smuggler and captured the car through the tyre bursting but the smugglers escaped. Mexico, February 12. Fifteen thousand cotton factory workers were locked out at Orizabo because they threatened to strike. 11 is feared that the unemployed men will join the rebels operating in the Puebla district. Revolt is still simmering in many districts but it is not believed that it will assume dimsufficient to overthrow the present regime. Regulars defeated a thousand Zabata rebels in the Cuernava district. The Fedorals’ loss was five killed. The Zahatists’ loss is unknown. Ottawa, February 12. A dam utilised to furnish water power to colliery companies’ plants broke at Union Bay, B.C. A groat wall of water swept do\\jn on a village overwhelming,the Chinese and Japan, cse .-quarter, , > STlife' 'niep were warned in 'time and, escaped to the'highoi ground. - ; It.! is , believed there- was only one death. The steel cars used by the colliers were carried a hundred yards ■ from the tracks. -Berlin, February 12; Owing, to Herr Spalm-’s refusal ol the presidency, the Reichstag, for tinfirst time in history opens under c Socialist vice-president, Schiedonladh being a Socialist. | persons were .killed by an,, explosion duo to carelessness at the Antonen mine at Oppeln., The famous royal porcelain factory at Nymphenburg lias been burnt. Lisbon, February 12. The Tagus has risen sixty feet in some places. The wine stores al Villa Franca were flooded, and the barrels have floated to the sea. The damage at Villa Franca is £200,000, and the damage to- the riverside districts exceeds /£2,250,000. One hundred and fifty have been drowned, in various places, and thousands of barrels of wine and standing, crops have been destroyed at Cadiz, where the sea. tore up three, miles of railway.

Rome, February 12. Hie Bank of Naples has been defrauded of £32,000 sterling by meant of genuine cheque forms, augumonted by the aid of chemicals and perforating machine. Cheques were simultaneously passed at Turin, Florence and Rome. There is no trace of the forgers. Las Palmas, February 12; Several steamers left on Saturday afternoon to lioljr the liner Australia, which radiographed that she- was disabled and in great danger north oi Las Palmas. Khartoum, February 12. Professoiv Garstand has discovered luxurious baths at Meroe, fed by aqueducts, finally flowing into cascades between sculptured lions, confirming ancient Abyssinian records.