GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 16 June 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

WORKMAN FALLS ''loo FEET. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [OnITBD ASSOCIATION.! Sydney, June 15. A youthful laborer named Wright fell i'nmi a building a height of 100 ft into a mass of telegraph wires. He broke several, but the wires so broke his fall that he merely climbed down the post, remounted the building, and resumed work little the worse for his escape. GIRL CLAIMS £2OOO. Sydney, June 15. A case progressing now is arousing much interest. Gwendoline Browne, aged 18, ex-typiste in the firm of John Bridge and Co., claims £2OOO compensation from Lionel Bridge, managing director of the company, for alleged libel and assault. The claim rests on a letter written by the defendant to the head of -Miss Browne's department, ordering him to dispense with her services for alleged acts of impropriety on the company's premises, and contemptuous disregard of instructions. Tho plaintiff denies the charges, and alleges that the defendant used unnecessary force in removing her from tho premises. THE DARLING HARBOR FIRE. Sydney, Juno 15. The insurance on the buildings- and machinery owned by the Harbor Trust on tho burned wharf was £41,300, including a New Zealand Insurance Co. policy of £10,933. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. Sydney, June 15. Several quarantine regulations have been altered, permitting New Zealand wool to enter the Commonwealth, provided that each consignment is accompanied by a certificate that the wool is produced in the Dominion. MT. LASSEN ERUPTING. New York, June 15. Two more eruptions occurred at Mt. Lassen, and considerably enlarged the opening. One eruption lasted for thirty minutes, ejecting smoke, ashes, rocks and deadly gases to a height of two thousand feet. The eruption could be seen fifty miles away. / - " KILLED BY LIGHTNING. London, Juno 15. A thunderstorm, the severest in London in the memory of living people, produced a tropical downpour for several hours,,and a phenomenal fall of hail. A number of children sitting under trees at Wandsworth were struck by lightning. Three are dead and others were severely injured. Elsewhere many parsons were injured, and houses and chimney-stacks were damaged. Floods occurred in the southern and southeastern suburbs, and traffic was disorganised.

NAVAL EXPERIMENTERS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, June 15. The Observer says that the Navy experimented with wireless telegraphy several years ago,htit the experimenters received the usual chill encouragement, and discontinued. If tho Admiralty fostered investigation instead of discouraging it, the Navy would have evolved wireless telegraphy, and if would not have been compelled to acquire it elsewhere. Probably the same would occur with telephony. GERMAN ENTERPRISE. Loudon, June 15. British shipowners regard with equanimity Germany's proposed entry into the New Zealand trade, and "are confident of folding their own. No dominion, they say, is more loyal than New Zealand. It will rest with British manufacturers to guarantee that their terms for all classes of goods will lie equal to any offered in Germany. The Government is prolonging the agreement with >ihe Norddeutscher Lloyd service to Australia. THE KAISER AND ROSES. Vienna, June 15. Cynical effusions about "roses" and "summer in her festival garments" hailed the Kaiser Admiral Von Tirpitz at Archduke Francis' chateau. The immediate motive of the Kaiser's visit is still declared to be the Imperial wish to see tho Archduke's gardens in full bloom, but diplomats assert that the visit is due to a desire to remove tho deplorable antagonism between Austria and Italy. The independent Press asserts that the roses in the Archduke's garden will at some future date be converted into a bouquet of tuxes.