GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 18, 11.40 ,a.m.) New York, April 17. The Carpathia sent a wireless mss cage that she has 705 survivors or board. She expects .to ’arrive early cn Friday. An unvouchcd for wireless reports ihajt 250 passengers v.wre aboard the Baltic. i London’, April 17. The Times says the .system of cm ibarg'o fir since has been applied tr Ireland which in the meanwhile will not contribute a 'penny for Imperial purposes until an unspecified, date, /though receiving an annual .grant o'. ■two millions which can only be defensible while Ireland is part of the/ United Kingdom. The text of [the Bill issued suites that senators’ term of office will ho eight years and members l of the House of Commons five years. Parliament will he summon, ■cd in September, 1913, whereupon itho Irishmen at Westminister will resign. Mr McKenna, in the House of Commons, announced that special privileges were being accorded 'to suffragettes, including ,a. parcel of food weekly from outside, exemption from ordinary prison discipline and monthly visits from friends. • London, April 17. The newspapers publish favourable n.oltices of Miss Winifred Purnell’s re-

cital. The Telegraph 'says she seems destined to go- far. Lisbon, April 17.

The British Astronomical AssociaHon made ‘successful, observations of an eclipse ,cf the sun .at Penaflel.