GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 6 December 1911, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (.United Press Association.) London, December 1. Tiie Premier in the preface to a Rome Rule publication scales mac cno Parliament Act destroyed the perpetual bar erected by die Rouse of wands, but it was tno essence of tiie Parliament Act that a Bill which becomes law under its operations must command during Che conscquentivo. sessions the unswerving support of cue Commons who were depended on its twin stable consistent puulic opinion in the constituencies. 'this sentence interpreted in some quarters as an appeal to the House 01 Lords to reject Home Pule. Hie “Chronicle” protests against the Government allowing me nonse of Lords only ton days to deal uitii die Insurance, Naval Prize, Mines and Pinaucc Bills, whereas under the Parliament Act the power to over-i ide me peer's veto was operative in the case of Bills sent to t he peers at least a month before the end of the ses-

sion. Theresa Humbert, who was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment in August, 1903, lor forgery ami swindling m connection wim tiie famous empty safe frauds, is now insane, and has resumed the quest for the missing wealth. the House of Lords have allowed de Beer’s appeal. They declared that the exclusive license was legal. A crowded omnibus, in Finsbury Square, lost a wheel and overturned, twelve persons being injured.

Members of the House of Commons have received 1611,000 protests against the Insurance Bill. The clerk class oppose the Bill, and are organising on a large scale. The “Saturday Review,” ‘‘Pall Mall Gazette” and “Observer” urge Unionists not to oppose the measure. They nokl that it is better that a foundation of contributory insurance be laid than a purely Socialistic Bill introduced later.

The “Morning Post” suggests that if the freehold can be secured, all the Dominions should join Australia in building offices on an “island” site, including trade and emigration agencies. In the first of three games between Stevenson and Gray, at the end of the day’s play the scores were:— Stevenson 1560, Gray 1430. Shares:—Junction 29s 4d, 30s 7d; Talisman, 47s 6d, 50s. Silver, 25 9-16 d. / Berlin, December 4. Fire, attributed to incendiarism, destroyed £75,000 worth of uniforms and accoutrements at the depot at tiie Leipzig barracks. All the non-com-missioned officers on duty at the depot have been arrested. ,

Two of Von dor Tailin’s blue-jackets received five years’ servitude at Kiel for insubordination and violence to superiors. Reeih, aeroplaning from Munich to Nuromburg, was killed by a fall.

New York, December 4. Obituary: Admiral Wilde, from heart disease.

The boiler of the tow-boat Diamond, on the Ohio river, exploded. The captain and three men wore killed. The boat was sunk.

■ lu an into'rview, Mr Carnegie said the Kaiser was all for peace. The title “war lord” was a slander on an essentially peaceful ruler. Mexico City, December 4.

Thirteen rebels were captured at Yucatan and shot without trial. Revolutionary bands are operating in the Yucatan towns.