GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

CHINESE CABLE RATES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Pekin, February 13. The cable companies haye agreed to a press rate to Europe of eighteenpence halfpenny. POLICEMEN SENTENCED. London, February 13. Constables Wetherill and Smith were sentenced to twelve months’ and Constable Brooks to four months’ at the Old Bailey, for assaulting a linotype operator and his wife who were waiting for a tram in the early morning at Hoxton. an excuse for meanness Mr Peter Coates, of Paisley, al leging the socialism of recent legislation, has revoked his bequests of £SOOO each to the local infirmaries. SHACKLETON SENT FOR TRIAL. Thomas Garliek, accountant, and Shackleton have been remanded on a charge of conspiring to defraud Lord Ronald Cower of £40,000, Frank Bird of £6OOO, and Miss Browne of £12,000. Shackleton was committed for trial on a charge of misappropriating £ISOO. Counsel stated that Lord Ronald Gower was ruined after entrusting the management of his affairs to defendants. Garliek, who was given a power of attorney, sold Gower’s stock and credited Gower with shares in the International Financial Development Corporation, and paid him alleged dividends. He also acted similarly in other cases. AGRICULTURAL SHOW. The King will open the Royal Agricultural Show at Bristol in July. Ihi Lord Mayor of Bristol is inviting tin Premiers and Governors of all tin States and Dominions. The Commonwealth is arranging for a special dis play. CROWN JEWEL ROBBERY. Mr Birrcll, replying to a question i the House of Commons, said it wa; a cruel outrage to associate Lor, Haddo, son of Lord Aberdeen, tin Irish Viceroy, with the disappearance of the Crown jewels, as Lord Hadcb was absent from Ireland months before and after the robbery. COUNTERFEITING IN GAOL. Cairo, February 13. The superintendent of the Delta prison has been sentenced to seven : years’ imprisonment, and eightc; a convicts and warders to terms ranging 1 from three to seven years for whole- | sale counterfeit coining in the prims.