GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 17, 17 May 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

'By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (United Press Association.} London, May 15. Silver 28d. The visible American wheat supply is 76,665,000 bushels. An anonymous Londoner has donated £l2-50 to Bishop B'rcdsham's (Bishop of Queensland) diocesan fund. The trial of Mrs Pankhur'st and Mr and Mrs Pethiek Lawrence has commenced at the Old Bailey. There are ■j I indictments. A fire on the Peninsular Co.'s steamer Malta at the Royal Albert Docks started in the coal bunkers and reached the after hold and engineroom.

(Received 16, 11.50 a.m.) Berlin, May 15. Sir George Reid read a long paper to a crowded audience on Australia's

development, in the course of which he expressed warm appreciatiaon of German settlers. Xow York, May 15.

Two masked men held up the New I Orleans-New York express, dynamited the safe and escaped on horseback. I The passengers wore nnt molested and j nobody was hurt. A posse was prompt- | ly organised and the pursuit is proI ccoding. The robbers secured a i hundred and forty thousand dollars. Stockyards at Kansas City wore I burned and two thousand cattle perish- ! ed in the flames.

The Presidential primary election at San Francisco resulted ovorwhelming- ! ly for Mr Roosevelt. Women voted I I'm- t,;c first time in the State's; his- | tory. ~> \ : i ■ 'Ottawa, May 15. At Winnipeg Warred Conlan, a wellknown Canadian actor, dropped on the stage at the end of the playlet "Man to Man." The audience believed that the fall from the chair .was a part of the play. The actors knew Con]an was dead but finished the play. Governmental stiltis'tics show-that tli'e cost of living in Canada is ste idily i :'<?- ing. During the last tleoad'; tbe i advances were' geiil'.hil on the pVices of ! Jill commodities and there were furi ther rises even in April.