GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

WRECK OF A STEAMER. By Electric Telegraph.—Oopyright. (United Press Association.) Key West, March 10. . Reports state that the British steamer Lugano is ashore. Shq has a million dollars’ worth of cargo, mostly in wines and silks. The crew are safe. WOMEN’S IMMIGRATION. London, March 11. The Duke of Marlborough will preside at the British Women’s Immigration Association. Something like :hree hundred women emigrated from Britain last year.

The exodus from the countryside is -ausing statesmen anxiety. Sir Joseph Ward said that New Zealand could take ten thousand of die surplus women of Britain, and all vore certain of good employment. GOLD FAMINE IN GERMANY. London, March 11. Heavy selling of foreign stocks in Berlin in order to relieve the German »old famine is bearing unfavourably on die London Stock Exchange and is laving a similar effect in New York. There is a shortage of money in Berlin owing largely to the withdrawal if French loans after the Agadir in■ident and the withdrawal of Russian finds. ■.. f/

TINNEI) BEEF .TENDERS. '] London, March 11. The War Office is inviting tenders ip to June 11th for 620,000 twelveumee tins of beef and 62,520 21 -ounce ins of beef for delivery at Woolwich :n July, August and September.

TRADE DEVELOPMENT IN 1912. i ; i n . London; March 11. Mr Algernon Firth', presiding at the Association of'Chambers of Commerce at Loudon'.' attributed the universal •ncrease of trade in 1912| to.the development of new countries. It had been moved that there was room for all, and mdless opportunities for enterprise •emained. It was resolved to urge Mr Buxton to publish information con■erning the trade of the countries coniguous to the Panama Canal.

DEFAULTER ARRESTED. Paris, March 11. Wilmert, the Belgian railway manager who was charged with defrauding die company of two and a half milions', was arrested at Rheims. EXPLOSION ON A SUBMARINE. While the submarine Foucault was undergoing a trial at Cherbourg, the mgine exploded and seven men were seriously injured. DISCHARGING THE TURAKINA. London, March 11. The Turakina discharged her wool ind flax. The rest of the cargo is under water. The stench is becoming a serious natter, and it is possible it will become necessary to tow the vessel to ?ea and sink her owing to the cost of 'lisin faction being greater than the value of the ship. The sanitary authorities are endeavouring to discharge the mutton.

DAILY EXPRESS AND EMIGRATION. The Daily Express, with a view to demonstrating the advantages of emigration to Australia, offers to pay the passage of five unmarried men and five domestics, Sir George Reid promising employment. As a result of the offer, the Express received a thousand letters on the subject since the New Year. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SUICIDE. * Natalie Jeffries, who is well connected and living at Godaiming, left a letter intimating that she was going to die in a pond and advising her mother to do the same. The mother received the letter at four o’clock in the morning and immediately left. The servants followed and found the bodies in a pond. There is no motive for the deed.