GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TUBERCULOUS CATTLE. London, February 18. The Board of Agriculture annaunces that on May Ist cows with tuberculosis of the udder, or giving tuberculosis milk, will be destroyed. The Treasury will refund local authorities half compensation for the quinquennium. THE NEW ZEALAND. The battleship New Zealand has left St. Vincent. ANOTHER EXPEDITION. Paris, February 18. M. Jules de Payer is organising an expedition, including two aeroplanes, to explore North-Eastern Franz Josef Land. A FRENCH DESPERADO. •Paris, February 18. Chiapali, a farmer, has been arrested. He has terrorised the Grasse district for five years. He is charged with seventy crimes, including farm houses, burglaries, and killing horses and cattle. He was not suspected, though sixty detectives were tracking him, BRAVE SEAMEN. (Received U.O a.m. London, February 18. The underwriters have presented the captain of the Snowden Range with a gold watch and cheque for £4OO. They also presented cheques to the officers, who were introduced to Lloyd’s and cheered. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN. (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, February 18. The public subscribed 20 per cent of the New Zealand loan money in small amounts. W. T. STEAD MEMORIAL. The Journalists’ Institute has decided that the Stead Memorial will be of bronze, with medallion portrait. It will be erected on the Thames Embankment, a replica going to America.