GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 87, 7 December 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 7, 10.15 a.ra.) ( Sydney, December 7. Fire gutted Harrington’s, photographers, large premises in George Street. The damage was heavy. Melbourne, December 7. Mr. Pearce is creating a provost staff to deal with recalcitrant cadets, instead of hy the ordinary police. Mrs. Kingston, widow of the late Hon. H. C. Kingston, prominent in political circles, was fined for assaulting a doctor and another man. The evidence showed that she wont about armed with a revolver, knife, razor, and bludgeon ; she used the latter, and threatened him with the revolver. Acceptors in the Port Adelaide Cup include Shuja, weighted at 9.7. (Received 7, 10.55 a.m.) London, December 6. Delay’s estate is worth £7o,ooo''. Ho bequeathed £10 ? 000 to his widow and the residue, which includes Mrs. Nowill’s £30,000, goes to Delay’s sister. West-Australia is issuing a million I per cent, loan at 99. (Received 7, 12.10 p.m.) London, sDacfoifbar 0.« « Delay was married in New Vork during November, 1911, a fact which was unknown to Delay’s family. A codicil to the will duly witnessed, states that £30,000 was bequeathed as a slight token of my high admiration and esteem for Mrs. Aowill’s friendship. shown during eighteen months. The woman was buried in Sheffield today. ' London, December 6.

At the blood stock sales at Newmarket 602 I6ts realised 210,432 guineas. There were many foreign buyers, especially Russian. Brussels, December 0. A boy of eighteen was caught in tb ■ quicksands at Santindue and drowned, after seven hours’ struggle in tne presence of his younger brother, who was powerless.