GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 35, 2 June 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric IwaeaAPHT-CtopTßieHT) XUntted Prjem Association.! (Received. 9.10. a.m.) . j Melbourne, June 2. . ./'Wizard" Stone..was injured during trial.flights in a monoplane, which was wrecked. When 200 feet from the ground,, the machine" was caught by a gust of wind and sideslipped, and Crashed to earth. • The Melbourne-Sydney flight has been postponed indefinitely. ■ (Received 8.35 a.m.) . London, June 1. Sea scouts, who were sailing in a cutter, capsized off Somerleyton, in Suffolk, in hoisting the sail. Three instructors, including an exnavy man and three boys, were drowned. The sole survivor was a'boy, who succumbed in swimming ashore. (Received 9.35 a.m.) London, June 1. At the Irish Trade Union Congress meeting held in Dublin, Mr Larkin was elected president. He stated that now Home Rule was settled, an Irish Labor Party would be estate lished next week. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Paris. June 1. The newspaper Homme Libre states th,at the Xew Hebrides negotiations were lately protracted as Australian Imperialism has thrown its weight into the, balance. The newspaper suggests that. France should exchange the New Hebrides for MaUiitras. Durrazo, Juno 1. Turkhan Pasha has asked the Powers for 500 international troops now at. Skutari to enable the Government to pacify the population, which was misled by foreign agitators. (Received 9.1.0 a.m.) Sydney, June 2. Increased passage and freight rates between Inter-State ports came into force yesterday. The freight, increased Is (5d per ton on general cargo, and passenger fines approximately ten per cent. (Received 9.20 a.m.) The executive officers of the Employees' Federation stated that the men were determined the afternooj; shift must end although the Heavens fall. The president said no industry lent itself more to nationalisation than the coal trade. The increase in the shipping rates does not apply to live slock. The Hoard of Health returns show that there were seventy-four cases of smallpox last month. The birth rate is unsatisfactory, being X per cent, below the average of the previous five years. • The Waipara has been berthed at

Cairns. She does not appear to have been seriously damaged. . John Stenhouse was sontenced to fifteen years penal servitude for the manslaughter of his wife at Paramatta during a quarrel on Good Friday. While under the influence of liquor he struck her several blows on the head with a hammer. Times ano Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m.) New York, June 1. The Chicago municipal court decided not to board out children to childless parents unless the municipal psychological laboratory certified to the physical and mental soundness of the latter, (Received 8 a.m.) New York, June 1. Mr Roosevelt declared that he has weighed the democratic administration and found it wanting, and will take off his coat in the autumn in the interests of a practical propressivism. (Received 8 a.m.) New York, June 1. Sir Conan Doyle, who visited Sing Sing, condemns the American prison methods.