GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph —Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, February 26. Houghton has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering his father and brother at Whilton. Tokio, February 2G. The Japanese Diet by 204 votes to 152 declined to censure Kechara, Home Minister, in connection with the police subduing demonstrations on 10th hist. Lisbon, February 26. The Portugal ; authorities have arrested J. S. Bowskill, English Baptist missionary, at San Salvador, in the Congo, in connection with recruitment of native labor for cocoa islands. Washington, February 26. According to reports received by the State Department, General Villa cremated Benton’s body, lienee his reluctance to declare the place of burial or allow exhumation. Loudon, February 26. The White Star Co.’s Britannic has been launched at Belfast. Mr Mcßride brought under Mr Haroourt’s notice the Port of London’s practice of granting rebates discriminating against the small importer, and asked for an annulment of power to grant rebates. Mr Haroourt has submitted the question to the Board of Trade.

The War Office is inviting tenders on the 25th May for 37,500 twelveounce tins* of beef and 62,500 twenty-four-ounce, for delivery in September. The King was among the attendance of fifteen thousand at Chelsea to witness the American teams, play baseball. Chicago beat the Giants bv five to four.

Mr Baker, in reply to Mr Guinell, said tlie saving due to using frozen instead of home-bred beef .for four days a week in the army in the United Kingdom was £150,000 per annum. He was unaware of the opinion prevalent in Ireland that the foot-and-mouth disease was maliciously introducted in Australia’s interests. i

The Antwerp wool sales opened with a largo attendance. There was brisk competition and a (general advance, special and fine sorts realising fancy figures. As compared to January, merino rose five to seven per cent., fine crossbreds ten, and ordinaries up to twelve; 2517 bales of La Plata were offered, and 2007 sold. Paris, February 26. The warship Waldeck Rousseau has been refloated undamaged. London, February 26.

The Northern Football Union arranged to consider a proposal to accelerate the challenge cup ancf League finals in order to release players who are making the Australian tour. It lias already been arranged tin;:.

sixteen arrive in Sydney on Juno Ist. The complete team will not arrive before the middle of June, unless the finals are accelerated. ■ >' One hundred of the most prominent Lahorites banqueted the deported men in the Strangers’ Dining-room in the House of Commons. The banquet was private, and passed off without incident. Washington, Fehiuary 26. Representative Kalin, in the Lower House, said lie hoped the Mexican policy would soon be changed, as the United States was drifting straight to intervention. It was a deadly drifting dangerous policy lifting the embargo on arms for the rebels. Mr Kalin suggested asking the Argentine, Chili, and Brazil to co-oper-ate with the United States to settle the Mexican question. British Consul I’ereivnl’s trip "to Mexico has been postponed. Santa Monica, February 26.

Re Palma heat Oldfield for the Vanderbilt automobile oiij) hundred miles race, which was won by a few seconds. ,

Hillinrelist Faulkiner has scored 15,241 points and Gray 15,001, including a completed 571.

The Leith Burghs by-election resulted : Currie (Unionist) 5159; Smith (Liberal) 5143; Bell (Labor) 3346. Christiania, February 26.

The elections will be held in April The Ministry is working at high pres sure on a scheme of national defence Berlin, February 25.

The German national flying fund in 1913 received £361,725 and expended £107,975 in prizes, £87,613 in training pilots, £38,905 in insuring pilots and £24,000 in the erection of flying centres and seaplane stations. There were 36,817 flights, resulting in twelve fatalities, and 115 machines were dam god. Lisbon, February 27. Telegrams state that the railway strikers have blown up two trains with dynamite and attempted to blow' up two bridges. They burnt the central station at Lisbon, and the mob took possession of the streets. The strikers tore np the rails in several places, derailing a train.