GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 22 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

JAPANESE POLITICS

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (Umted Press 'Association.)

Tokio, January 21

President Katsura is unable to effect a conciliation, and will form a new party called the Constitution of Unionists.

A SHIPPING DEAL

London, January 21

The British India Company has acquired Archibald Currie’s business and fleet.

“MINER TO PARTY LEADER.”

The newspapers give prominence to Mr Cook’s election, generally heading it “Miner to Party Leader.”

THE BOY SCOUTS

There are 138,715 boy scouts in Great Britain and 40,473 overseas. Lore Rose bury has been elected President of the London Boy Scouts. EMIGRATION. Mr Chappie has drawn attention to Australia’s and Canada’s increasing efforts to attract the best agriculturists, and their increasing precautions against the emigration of inefficicnts. Mr Harcourfc, replying, said that he was aware that it was sometimes considered that the emigration of agriculturists had attained excessive proportions, but a special committee did not serve any useful • purpose. The Dominions Commission was enquiring into the matter. MEDICAL METHODS. An inquest on a State-insured labourer at Lambeth disclosed that the doctor gave him a useless powder Without examination. The patient soon died of syncope. The doctor stated that when called for, 300 were waiting to get medical tickets- signed. The verdict stated that the doctor was scandalously overworked. AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.

(Received 10.25 a.m.) London, January 22,

Mr Kinloch Cooke, Unionist member for Devonsport, questioned Lord Harcourt regarding the distress oi the wives and families of many emigrants to Australia owing to the increased rates for nominated passengers. Lord Harcourt said that some States had increased the rates in consequence of higher shipping rates. Ho denied that the emigration office was not up to date. THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE.

St. Petersburg, January 2T.

The Czar declined to confirm the Council of Empires’ recommendation to prosecute Kurloff Spiridovitch Yen gin and KuljabkO, and proceedings have therefore been abandoned.

DISFRANCHISEMENT of LONDON

(Received 10.5 a.m.) London, January 21

A meeting of the City Conservative Association passed a resolution a gams-, the disfranchisement of the City. Mr. Balfour said he did not believe madness ever went further. All characterteristic institutions of the City would vanish. The importance of the City, nationally and internationally, was greater than ever. He pointed out that the Government passed a measure permitting forty-two Irishmen to vote on affairs outside their interest. He and his colleagues would rot, spare their efforts to save something from the wreck.

MOTOR FATALITIES

London, January 21

A motor car killed a policeman whil \ he was regulating the traffic. This has accentuated the outcry regarding motor fatalities, by which 310 persons have been killed in ten months, as against 140 by other vehicles.

SEWERAGE BOARD’S FINANCE

(Received 9.20 a.m.) Sydney, January 22

The Water and Sewerage Board is short of money, and applications for connections by the Board services are piling up. Only half the usual gangs of men are employed in pipe-laying, and unless the Board gets more money from the Government there will bo another one hundred dismissals.