GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United I’i'pss Association.) (Received 17, 12.51) jp.m.) , London, February Id. Stevenson 1(3,331, Gray 15,351. (Received 17, 12.50 p.m.) Vienna, February 1(5. Baron von Aehrcnthad is unconscious. (Received 17, 11.10 a.in.) London, February IG. G. H. Brown, emigration agent, charged with obtaining money by false pretences, has been convicted and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Dealers in London have returned fifty valuable books which had disappeared from the Peterborough Cathedral library. Earl Grey presided at a banquet at the Savoy Hotel to congratulate the>Earl of Plymouth in connection with 'buying the Crystal Palace for the nation. . Earl Grey announced that a donor had offered fifty thousand pounds towards the £220,000 required. The King and other Royalties, foriegn Courts, governments and universities wore represented at the memorial service for Lord Lister at Westminster Abbey. The captain of the Delhi emphatically denied that, the look-out man reported white lights between one o’clock and, the time of stranding. The Prince of Wales enters Magdalen College. Paris, February 10. Burglars ransacked the chateau of the Baron Edouard Rothschild at Deferrieres and stole valuables worth £14,000. Pictures worth £IO,OOO were cut into tatters. (Received 17, 11.40 a.in.) Paris, February 16. Thieves threw a bomb into a jeweller’s shop • at Boulogne-snr-Seino, scattering his stock into the roadway. They secured a quantity of jewels and escaped after firing :at the police. (Received 17, 11.40 a.in ) Madrid, February 16. The managers, actors and authors have decided to close the theatres until the excessive theatri taxes are reduced. Rome, February 16. Nine more of the Viterbo Camorrists have been released. Despite the fact that 950 witnesses have already .been heard, the prosecution states that the verdict is still far off. (Received 17, 11.40 a.m.) Madras, February 16. Nelankata and eight others have been sentenced to varying terms of a year to seven years in connection with the conspiracy at Tinneval.ly resulting in the murder of Ashe. • (Received 17, 11.40 a.m.) Ottawa, February 16. Nine passenger cars on the transcontinental express were derailed owing to Intense cold spreading tj;o rails. The passengers miraculously escaped unhurt. (Received 47, 11.40 a.m.) Washington, February 16. Mr Taft has urgently appealed to the legislature to take steps to ,do-1 velop Alaska. A Bill would he intro-'! duced to provide the formation of ia railroad commission. New steamer lii ;es are also proposed. (Received 17, 11.40 a.m.) Now-York, February 16. Three moil sprang on a taxi-cab conveying money from the East River National Bank to another hank. Two belaboured the messengers’ heads until partly unconscious, the third covering the ehaffour with a revolver. They secured £3OOO and escaped. At Chicago four murderers guilty of murder of a foreigner named Guelmws wore 'hanged together in the State gaol. On the previous night they gave way to an hysterical outburst and fought the warders fiercely but were overpowered by main force. 1 he wife of one of the condemned men fainted. The whole Polish community endeavoured to secure the pardon of two of the condemned, hut failed. The men were carried iu ,a semi-conscious condition to the scaffold. At Juneau, Alaska, warrants have been issued for the arrest of .eighteen business men under the provisions of the Anti-Trust Law. It is alleged that accused, who are heads of coal and steamship companies, combined to exclude other companies from wharf facilities at Skagway. Capetown, February 16. Ibe Assembly debated a resolution condemning the reorganisation of the civil service. Sir L. S. Jameson charged the Government with not observing clauses 141, 142, and 144 of the Constitution, and declared that experienced men were retrenched. Mismanagement was particularly gross in Mr Hertzog’s department. General Botha denied that violation of the Constitution had occurred, and said the unrest in the service was due to the changes necessitated by the ••'Union. A permanent civil service commission would eventually be appointed. Mr Jnggor described Mr Hertzog’s department as recking with racialism, favouritism, nepotism and jobbery. Mr Graaf denied that the Government had assisted the negotiations for the amalgamation of the Royal Mail and Union Castle lines. The negotiations lor the mail contract were opened by the Royal Mail line in an auspicious manner. The Government was .awaiting the arrival of Sir iDwen Phillips, chairman cf the Royal Mail lino, before arranging the new contract. Australia, be said, was prepared to co-operate in the matter. (Received 17, 11.10 a.m.) London, February 16. Mr Churchill, receiving a deputation, said nothing would give the Admiralty greater pleasure than to see an eight hours’ working day

maintained at tlio Thames Shipbuilding Works and ho would gladly do his utmost to secure its maintenance. (Received 17; 11.10 a.m.) Capetown, February 16. Peulerick examiner oi the Fast Rand mine, has been committed tor trial for mis-stating the amount of gold recovered during the hirst halt of 1911 and also for staling that fortySimon hundred ounces were derived from milling, whereas they were derivd from cyariding.