GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 54, 28 October 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

BINGHAM MINERS’ STRIKE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) New York, October 25. Five hundred Cretan miners at Bingham fired on a posse of deputies and mine employees, wounding five, one fatally. The Cretans have fled to the hills, strongly armed. THE KATMAI VOLCANO. Vancouver, October 26. The Katmai volcano is again active. The sea and vessels in the vicinity are covered with pumice stone. Darkness prevented the vessels from proceeding, and heavy smoke hides the peak, from which flames are shooting. Many people have been driven from their homes. FATALITY ON THE MARiAMA. Vancouver, October 26. Owing to the fall of a gang plank on the steamer Mararna, a steward named Turkington was killed and another and a sailor badly injured. MOROCCO. Paris, October 26. Franco and Spain have reached an agreement on all points regarding Morocco. The following items have appeared in the Sydney Sun London, October 11. Representatives of .the Ulster Liberals went to the Admiralty to-day and presented Mr Winston Churchill with a blackthorn stick, which, they explained, was to enable him to meet Sir Edward Carson on equal terms in the Home Rule fight. A blackthorn was presented to Mrs Churchill also. October 13.

The Argentine Government has received two offers from syndicates that desire to purchase the State railways. The minimum price at which it is estimated the Government will sell the lines is £20,000,000. At a sale of Shorthorns, an Aberdeenshire hull and calf made the. record price of 2000 guineas. Competition was excited, keen buyers being present who had travelled from all parts of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Canada. Other sales were effected at 1950 guineas; 700 guineas, and 560 guineas. A report just issued dealing with the health of the British troops in India during 1911 is of a most favourable character. It shows that among the European soldiers serving in India a standard of health is now maintained that was not dreamt of a generation ago. During last year there were 170 eases of enteric fever, and the deaths totalled only 22—the lowest number on record.

The collection of stamps that will be shown at the International Philatelic Exhibition, to he held this week, is said to be the largest ever got together. Its value is given as £300,000. One interesting specimen will lie the Australian stamp showing the design of the kangaroo, which has not previously been seen in England. October 14. The drought now prevailing in the Transvaal and in the Orange Free State has become so serious that prayers for rain were offered yesterday in all the churches throughout South Africa. Twenty thousand consumers in Cleveland, Ohio (U.S.), have begun a hunger strike with the object of bringing down the price of eggs, the cost of which has been greatly increased by the action of a food trust. \ It is asserted that Mr W. M. Hughes, (Attorney-general in the Commonwealth Government, intends to accept the chairmanship of the Australian Interstate Commission. The position will carry a salary of £2500, and the term of office will be seven years. Evidence given before the Derelicts Committee of the Board of Trade shows that since 1894 20 derelict ves sols had been reported. Of these 10 were ordered to he searched for, hni only one was found. The other 10 were accidentally discovered. A remarkable attack on the character of the modern Englishman warmade in the course of a sermon by the vicar of Worksop, in Nottingham. Tin Englishman of to-day, declared the vicar, was renowned for his insincerity, lying, and ungodliness. Parochial gossip,'the rev. gentleman went on to say, was current everywhere, but never in the course of his experience had there been a parish where lying was so prevalent as in Worksop.

The centenary of the death of General Sir Isaac Brock, who was killed on Queenstown Heights in the wai with the United States, was celebrated in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Addresses were delivered by Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, and Mr Lewis Harcourt, Secretary for the Colonies. General Brock, who is known as the “Hero of Upper Canada,” Was killed on October 13, 1812. Just two months before his death he distinguished himself by capturing, at Detroit, the American army which, under General Hull, invaded Canada, and for that exploit was knighted. Tokio, October 11. Profiting by the lessons of the Titanic catastrophe, one of the Japanese shipping companies, the Toyo Risen Kaisha, has just introduced a new feature. Each person who books a passage by any of the company’s steamers will find attached to his ticket' a coupon, which is good for a certain seat in a specified lifeboat. On each

of these coupons is printed a request that passengers, upon joining their ship, should acquaint themselves with the exact location of the lifeboat in which they would have to take their seats in case of emergency. The company is taking the further precaution of seeing that each ship is provided with a supply of lifebelts sufficient for

the full number of passengers it is entitled to carry. Vancouver, October 11. Tommy Burns declares that he is through with the ring lor ever. He will not do any more lighting unless it is for some charitable purpose. The ex-champion heavy-weight says that 1m intends to go to Australia in January, and that he will take four boxers with him, provided that Mr H. D. M'lntosh meets his demands.