GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 42, 12 October 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) *.United Press Association.) (Received S.lO a.m.) London, October 1L The Times estimates the yield of I wheat at eighty-one million bushels, bc- | ing 11.4 below the average of the decade; barley at eighty-five .millions, and oats at seventy-eight millions. The Queen Victoria Memorial Committee are expending £6OOO on Mr •Alston Webb’s the new exterior of Buckingham Palace, which is of classical design in Portland stone, and will be commenced in tiie summer of 1913. There was a crowded house when an acrimonious debate, particularly by Mr Bouar Law, on Mr Lloyd-George’s references to Ulster took place. Mr Churchill and Mr Chamberlain spoke on Mr Bouar Law’s amendment declining to restrict the debate on a Bill of such importance. The Bill was rejected by 323 otes to 232. (Received 9.36 a.m.) London, October 11. Members of the Women’s Freedom League are starting to-morrow to march from Edinburgh to London collecting on route signatures to the franchise petition to be presented to the House of Commons. Mr Churchill, replying to Mr Rees, said the warship New Zealand would join the first battle cruiser squadron after her return to New Zealand in the summer of 1913. He denied that the Australian Fleet would alone in the future maintain the British position in the Pacific,