LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 10 November 1911, Page 6

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(United Press Association.)

London, November 9

At a conference between the Lancasniro coalminers and coal-owners, the men .asked for a minimum of 75,. tno management to grant facilities for each man to do a day’s work. Tlie masters refused this on the grounds that the proposal was a violation of the Conciliation Board’s agreement, but they were willing to consider a remedy for abnormal places’.

CHINA

Pekin, November 9

Hundreds were burned at Hankow, including women and children. Whole families were engulfed in flames. Eight Imperialists were executed for looting. Both sides have been guilty of killing the wounded. The Imperialists inflicted horrible tortures and. outrages on women. Can toil has proclaimed its independence. MININQ ACCIDENT. Capetown, November 9. Of sixty natives entombed by the fall of rock in the Primrose mine, Johannesburg, four were idled and twenty-three injured, but the remainder were rescued. LARGE COAL AREA DISCOVERED Ottawa, November 9. One of the largest coal areas in the world has been discovered in Northern British Columbia. The quality, is said to bo equal to the best Welsh

coal. A railway is being planned to develop the coal. SHOT HIMSELF. New York, November 9. A man shot himself in a hotel, where he had registered under the name of. Maurice Stewart, of San Francisco. He is'believed to be Lord Sholto Douglas, who had been residing at Seattle for many years. The British has been notified with a view to identification. LORD MAYOR’S SHOW. London, November 9. The Lord Mayor’s show was witnessed by enormous crowds, who greeted Sir Thomas Vessfiy Strong (retiring Lord Mayor), and the Lord Mayorelect. The show was illustrated by ancient uniforms of the army and navy. VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM. {Per Prel’s Association.) Rotorua, November 10. One of tile worst thunderstorms experienced in Rotorua took place last night. Thunder and lightning were continuous for several hours, and the electric lighting of the town was interrupted. ... , AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Receiyed 10,. 1.6 p.m.) f . Sydney, November 10. f> The intfir-Stato wharf labourers are working all wharves excepting the Adelaide Steam Ship Company, where the gates are closed.