GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 21, 25 September 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Tmtejj Buess AHhOOIATiuN. I London, September 24. Tile-Kill}? witnessed the main operations of the army manoeuvres near Xorthampion. < Ohe-third of the revenue of Pete: Coates’ million estate has been alio cated'To charities. j ; . The* Hearts of Oak, National, Standat'd and Cleneral Assurance Societie Hdve agreed to amalgamate. : The No'w Zeland and Australian ’Lam Company has declared a final dividend of 4 per cent., with a bonus o ! per cent, ' *' ■ According to the Daily Mail, tin volunteer force exceeds 50,000. Berlin, September 24. ft is officially denied that the Kaiser has purchased land in British Colum ’'. a ' , , ( o NX" York, September 23. Jack London, the novelist, assisted a hand of fire-lighters when tin :own of Glenellen, in California, wa threatened with destruction by fores: fires. He directed the back-firing Great destruction was caused by tin fires, but no lives were lost. Montreal, September 23. 'j'be Supreme Court considers Thaw’: habeas corpus application, and decid eel that Thaw had no right to appea’ igainst an immigration order oneissued hy the Canadian authorities Thaw’s case in the New Hampshire I Courts is still dragging along. Thaw, it the last hearing, cried openly in Court when counsel appealed on hi behalf. Suva, September 24. The American harpuentine Amaranth, laden with coal from Newcastle to San Francisco, was wrecked at Jarvis Island on August 30. The crew of 15 persons are all safe, and reach'd Apia and Pago Pago (Samoa) in two boats, after covering a distance >1: 1400 miles. (Received 11.0 a.m.)

London, September 24. ; Canada is underwriting a three mil!iom 4 per cent, loan at 99. (Receive*! 11.30 a. m.) London, September 24. Miss Davidson, aged 90, daughter of a Manchester'manufacturer, wille a washerwoman named Fawcett, £25,000, the same amount to several of her brothers, and the residue amount I ing to £200,000 to tlie Weslevan Home Mi ssion and Foreign Mission, j (Received 12.30 p.m.) Montreal, September 24. ! The steamer Mount Temple went (ashore at St. Lawrence in a fog. It |is reported that the vessel is badly ! damaged. She carried many passengers.