GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 17 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

HISTORIC SEAT DESTROYED,

(Received 9.35 a.m.) London, September 16. Carden Hall, Colonel Holdsworth’s historic scat in Chesshiro, has been destroyed by fire, the jewellery- and pictures being lost. The damage is estimated at £60,000. The inmates escaped in their night attire. GENERAL MEDICAL STRIKE. Anticipating a general medical strike in January, the doctors in Leeds and Pudsey, resigned their contracts with the Friendly Societies. Eight thousand in Pudsey are affected, of whom 6000 are paying doctors’ ordinary fees. MULAT HA FID IN PARIS.

Paris, September 16,

Mulai Halid lias sailed for Tangier. He spent £I2OOO during his visit, the expenditure including pianos, cows, stags, phonographs, and hundreds of pairs of hoots. Abdul Aziz, former ruler of Morocco, also desires a visit. TEACHERS IN TROUBLE. The Paris Minister of Education has dissolved seven teachers’ unions out of twelve. The rest refused to obey or be converted into friendly societies. IN A SNAKE’S EMBRACE. Berlin, September 16. A twenty-six feet snake at Frank- 1 fort Zoo endeavoured to encircle and crush its keeper, who was feeding it. 1 On being foiled, it buried its fangs iu the keeper’s arm. While some of the keepers were holding the snake and others were holding the man, he tore Ids arm from tire snake’s jaws. FORTUNE-TELLING STOPPED. 1

(Received 9.55 a.in.) London, September IG. The police have forbidden the advertising of palmistry, crystal gazing, and clairvoyancy. About 150 establishments in the Bond Street district are threatened. THE SHARE MARKET. (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, September IG. Waihi shares 35s to 37s 6d, Junctions 23s 9d to 24s 9d, Talisman 40s to 42s Gd. EXAG G ERATED REPORT. Mr Norton, commercial agent in London for the South Australian Government, states that the report that 100,000 frozen sheep have been shipped from Adelaide to Hamburg has -apparently been exaggerated a thousand fold. CAPSIZED IN LAKE MICHIGAN. (Received 10.35 a.m.) New York, September 16. Latest investigations indicate that twelve were drowned when the training seamen’s cutter capsized in Lake Michigan. The chief gunner, who was in charge of a number of seamen apprentices, disappeared, but it is not yet known if he was drowned.