GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 14 November 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

ATROCITIES DENIED. (Received 14, 10.35 a.m.) London, November 13. The “Westminster Gazette” has published a detailed refutation of a series of allegations in the “Nituwo Rottcrdamsclie Courant” from a sncalbd special correspondent respecting atrocities on aboriginals in yueonsland and West Australia. AFRICAN POTENTATE ABDICATES. (Received 14, 10.35 a.m.) Zanzibar, November 13. Owing to ill-health the Sultan has abdicated in favour of his five-ycar-old son. MURDER TRIAL STOPPED. (Received 14, 10.35 a.m.) London, November 13. The Grand Jury at Warwick threw out the bill against Mrs Coventry, who was charged with causing the death of a Labourite named Gilks. RUSSIAN ARCHBISHOP ASSAILED. (Received 14, 10.10 a.m.) St. Petersburg, November 13. An insane ox-seminarist wounded the Archbishop of Volhynia with a knife during service. The congregation overpowered the assailant. A DISASTER FEARED. (Received 14, 11.40 a.m.) New York, November 14. The steamer Washington wont ashore at Astoria, Oregon, during a gale, and is in great danger. Many passengers are aboard and a disaster is feared. , LORD TWEEDMOUTH RESIGNS. (Received 14, 10.10 a.m.) London, November 13. Lord Tiveedmouth has resigned the Lord-in-Waitingship as he docs not sympathise with tlie Liberal policy. LINKING UP COLONIES. (Received 14, 10.35 a.m.) Berlin, November 13. The Government is wirelessly connecting the colonics on the east and west coasts of Africa, commencing with the Cameroons. THE AUSTRALIAN FLAGSHIP. (Received 14, 12.15 p.m.) London, November 14. The Powerful’s crew will lie transferred to the Drake, the new flagship for Australia, in January. BOXING CONTEST BARRED. (Received 14, 12.15 p.m.) London, November 14. Moran and Driscoll were bound over to keep the peace, on the ground that the contest was illegal.