GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 12, 11 May 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

fßy Floctric Telegraph.—Copyright,.) (United Press Association.) London, May 9. Silver 27 13-l Gd. Shares: Talisman 25s to 47s 6d. Colonel Bridges, Australian, visited the chief military schools of France, Germany, and Belgium. Everywhere lie was most cordially assisted. Obituary: Captain Loggia, former!'. P. and O. Commodore. d’he Mamari has sailed with 600 emigrants for New South Wales, including 175 carpenters, bricklayers and carriers. She carried twenty lifeboats. Mr Coghlan, Agent-General, ensured this accommodation. Hoffmmg’s estate has been proved at £89,568. The Financial News is organising a party of a hundred English manufacturers and financiers, representing a capital of £50,000,000, to visit thirty Canadian cities. A terrific gas explosion at Stratford wrecked a meterhousc and adjacent buildings. A workman was found in the ruins with his head blown off, and another was desperately injured. The town and adjacent buildings are it. darkness. Dr. Gnazda, of Agram, read a paper at the Academy of Medicine, showing the valuable results from Liu use of a compound of arsenic and phosphorous in arresting the cancerom growth of necrosis. Router’s Paris correspondent report? that the present stock of wheat it. 44,000,000 kilogrammes, instead of the normal several hundred millions. Tin price of bread is rising, and is causing apprehension. Largo orders fo; grain have been placed in Canada, the Argentine and Australia. The Government has decided that it’cannot snr, pend the tariff of seven francs per hundred kilogrammes, although it may prolong for two or three months the period wherein wheat may be imported free, a condition equivalent to the weight exported from France. A second victim has succumbed a; a result of the gas explosion at Stratford. There has only been one award in five weeks under the Conciliation Act. Only seven out of twenty-one district parties have agreed in selecting a chairman. The Board of Trade has appointed the remainder. Anxiety exists respecting the outlook. His wife has obtained a separation from Mr Tanner, the octogenarian vicar of Dundry who denounces cruelty. The Admiralty is placing large orders for coal at Cardiff anticipating a strike of seamen. At a meeting of the Waihi Gold Mining Company the chairman stated that the mine had paid over four and a half millions in dividends. The mine was originally purchased for three thousand pounds. Samuel Henry, tno local preacher who fired a revolver in the Central Hall of the House of Commons and who was discovered a few days later wounded in a house where his wife was lying dead with her throat cut, has been committed to an asylum. Tom Mann has been sentenced to six months in the second division. Lord Curzon states that all sections of political and public opinion have stamped the movement to recognise Sir Hcnniker Heaton’s services as, a national one. Many distinguished foreigners have signified their desire to participate. Berlin, May 9. Count Metternich’s resignation lias been accepted. It was tendered in 1911, but postponed for various reasons including the Coronation. The Count was German Ambassador at London. The Estimates provide /for a million sterling for submarines. Strenkler, under trial for the murder of the Schulze family, is suffering from further hemorrahage and the court trial has been indefinitely postponed. Vienna, May 9. Thirty policemen exchanged shots with three burglars at Inn for an hour and a half. Two were arrested and the third committed suicide. Bucharest, May 9. The entire Filipovici family of ten committed suicide on learning that the eldest son, by whom they were supported, was failing in business. A family council decided to die- rather than beg. The father, mother, grandmother, two grown-up daughters and five sons stupefied thomslves with beer, and went to sleep in a garret, laving two pans of charcoal burning. The youngest son, aged twelve, left a letter explaining the deed. Port an Prince, May 9. The Hayti Government has discovered a conspiracy to unseat the President in favour of ox-President Simon. Many arrests have been made, including foreigners. Ottawa, May 9. The American invasion of Canada promises to exceed all records during the present season. A hundred and seventy thousand immigrants are expected . Sir Thomas Tait, formerly chairman of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, is spoken of as likely to be the new chairman of the Canadian Railway Commission. The pending merging of the Bank of Montreal and the Union Bank is reported and afterwards the Bank of Montreal will likely amalgamate with the Royal Bank of Canada. if this is consummated the merger will he probably the largest in the history of banking. Sir Thomas Shanghnossy, president ef the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, is spoken of as likely to be chairman of the amalgamated banks. Writing to newspapers at Halifax and explaining his references to Canada in the recent letter ho sent to Mr Taft Mr Roosevelt sa vs ho never fav-

mired the annexation of Canada and he expressed the hope that no ill feeling would result. He always wisned the two nations to live in harmony along their borders.