GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 25 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FOOD FOR IMMIGRANTS. London, January 23. At Mr Ooghlan’s instance the Board of Trade will allow the shipping companies to give immigrants a greater variety of diet, which is especially desirable in' viow of the large number of children, POLITICAL AGENT RETIRES. Loudon, January 23. Mr Hughes, chief Conservative agent, has retired. SWINDLERS REMANDED. London, January 23. “Monte Carlo” Wells and the woman Peris were remanded at BowStreet. Evidence was given that Wells’ balance in Barclay’s Bank is £I2OO. A RAILWAY COMBINE. New York, January 23. Financial magnates interested in Western railroads are considering a plan to merge all the Hills railroads with the Rock Island and Gould roads. The plan is outlined as a joint interest by the Rock Island and ChicagoBurlington lines in' Missouri and the Pacific control df Denver and Rio Grande. The latter carries with it the ow-nership of the Western-Pacific, also probably a joint obligation of Rock Island 1 and Burlington with Rio Grande in Western-Pacific bonds. i i ; , , ‘ ' .1 1 | . ; - /i7l Vi . ■ 1 • M j . , GERMAN , ELECTIONS., - Berlin, January 23. ’. Thirty-four more second ballots will bo taken on Thursday.. , SERIOUS TRAIN ACCIDENT. Ottawa, January 23. The ! ’Canadian' ! Northern Co.’s Edmonton to Winnipeg express fell over [ an embankment at Cole, wan. Twenty-seven persons were in--3 jured,' some fatally. ? THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. New' York, January 23. The Duke of Connaught has decided to call at the ’White House, Washington. He loaves on a visit to the President on Thursday. He was entertained at dinner at Reid Mansion. The guests included Cardinal Farley and Governor and Mrs Dix. Fifty covers were laid. He spent the afternoon in sight-seeing in Fifth Avenue accompanied only by an aide-de-camp. PORTUGUESE COLONIES. London, January 23. . The Portuguese Legation in Lon- > don announces that the rumour that | Portugal desires to dispose of any ! of her colonies is false. The colonial ! policy will bo developed in harmony with the Portuguese alliance with Britain. Dr. von Solfe states that his visit to England is unconnected with any German aspirations in Portuguese Africa. EARTH ONLY A PLANET. London, January 23. Professor E. W. Maunder, superintendent of the solar department of the Royal Observatory, delivered a lecture in the Victoria Institute. He contended that the earth was only a planet wherein animals and plants were able to exist. DAMAGED MEAT. London; January 23. The steamer Wilcannia, from Sydney, with a large shipment of frozen meat, has arrived at Natal, and is discharging 500 tons of frozen cargo, owing to a breakdown in the refrigeriting machinery, in No. 1 hold. The sound portion is being placed in the warehouses. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. Berlin, January 23. In the second ballots, Kacmpf, a Radical, retained his scat in the Kaiser's Division of Berlin by seven votes, by means of the conservative vote, the Chancellor and all the Ministers voting for Kacmpf. The Socialists secured 27 seats today, notably in Cologne, from the Catholics, and in Frankfort-on-Main from the Radicals. THE SUGAR MARKET. Vienna, January 23. The sugar manufacturers in Hungary and Bohemia have urged their delegates at Brussels to resist Russia’s demands.