GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 2 January 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph’.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 31. At the close of yesterday's play Reece’s score was 0030 ami Lindrum's 6178. A steamer Attila, 32-10 tons, owned by the Hungarian Levant Steamship Company, sails from Trieste early in January, inaugurating a direct Australian service. .. aiiiaiaa Rugby League ;.a defeated Wanington yesterday ■ iwo goals and ten tries to two tries. It was a runaway game throughout. Mr Lord McCarthy, a resident of New York, was arrested in London on a charge of abduction alleged to have been committed in* Now i'ork. Sir Ford was remanded for a. week. Subsequently, however, it was discovered to he a case of mistaken identity, and Mr Ford was released. It has been arranged that Jack Johnson lights Sam McVea at Sydney on Easter Monday. Johnson will receive 30,600 dollars (£0000) and 5000 dollars £1006) as expenses. Ottawa, December 31. The white ensign will be flown at the stern of all Canadian warships and the Canadian Hag at the jackstafl. llie latter Hag consists of a blue ensign with the Dominion’s arms inserted in the Hy. New York, December 30. Three labour union officials aiding the strike on the Harriman railway lines will lie prosecuted under the antitrust laws, on the allegation of restraint of trade. This will he the first prosecution of tfio kind in the United States. The trial of the Chicago meat packers on charges of violating the antitrust laws is still proceeding. Direct evidence has been offered of the existence from 1893 to 1890 of a packers’ pool. After suspension for two years the pool resumed its control of the fresh meat trade. Country packers met at the Counsclman Building and fixed prices every _ Tuesday afternoon. All communications were exchanged through post office box Number 295. Tlie box later gave its name to the pool. There is intense cold in Colorado, driving mountain lions to descend to farmhouses in search of food. The transcontinental trains are delayed in the mountains hy snowdrifts. Washington, December 30. Committees of the Federal House will be selected to investigate the shipping combine, the international harvester combine and also the money trust. Calcutta, December 31. Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary received a fervid welcome on arrival at Calcutta. King George remarked that Calcutta would always remain the premier city iff India. Constantinople, December 31. The obstructionist tactics adopted by the Opposition party have prevented a quorum being secured in the Chamber, which is, consequently, unable to discuss the, modification of the Constitution. The Cabinet has therefore' resigned. Colombo, December 30. A Lariear murdered I Mr VtcCrea, the second engineer on the steamer Clan Lament, on the ’voyage between Aden ajicl Colombo. The murderer has been sent to Calcutta' for trial. ■ /,■ ■ ’ I- ■’ U iL : ■