GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE BLAYNEY SEAT. Sydney, January 9. The second ballot for the Blaney seat will he held on January 23. A STEAMER WRECKED. "New 'York, January 8. The steamer Kroonland went aground in a storm. She has eight hundred passengers aboard. Tugs are assisting her.

FURTHER EXPLORATION. Buenos Ayres, January 9. The Deutschland will resail 'for the south in December and continue her Polar exploration. FROZEN FIREMEN. 'New York, January 8. There have been terrible storms on the Atlantic/and Pacific coasts. The railways are (‘unworkable from snowslidfes in the Middle West. Firemen attending to fires in many cities wore frozen, but their injuries are not fatal. 5 THE FUR INDUSTRY. Now York, January 8. 1 Following protests from Britain, Japan and Russia against the absolute prohibition of fur sealing in the Northern Pacific, President Taft sent a message to Congress urging a partial repeal of the law thus allowing the killing of male seals, instead of paying an indemnity to Japan, Britain, and Russia. THE PUTUMAYO OUTRAGES. (Received 11.25 a.m.) London, January 9. Guhhins, continuing his evidence at the Putumayo enquiry, said 30,000 Indians were murdered in twelve months