GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 33, 3 February 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

Loudon, January 31. It is reported that as a result of the Charing Cross Bank failure, the Government is introducing a Bank Bill providing for Government inspection of private banks and the deposit of ample security by new banks. It is reported that Britain is seeking a coaling station at Palmyra Island. Owing to a claim by the United States the matter may possibly be referred to arbitration.

A thief secured £SOOO worth of jewellery samples from New Street station, Birmingham, through exchanging bags in a cloak room. The Primate, in a letter to the “Sunday Alliance,” condemns the Dickens gala on January 7th. It was the obligation of every Christian, he said, to safeguard the Lord’s Day. The opening of theatres was a terribly false step and a grave wrong to thousands of theatrical folk.

The Royal College of Physicians declined to attend a conference with the Insurance Commissioners to discuss the working of the Insurance Act, though they were prepared to assist in amending it in the direction of safeguarding the profession. The Council of the British Mddical Association and the College of Surgeons of Scotland have declined to attend the conference of the Insurance Commissioners. The Manchester Oddfellows’ conference, representing a million members, agreed that the unity will become an approved society. A resolution was defeated condemning the Board’s appeal to the House of Lords to amend the Insurance Bill.

Ex-King Manuel of Portugal and Don Miguel, pretender to the throne, met at Dover. They have been reconciled. Don Miguel has offered to help Manuel’s restoration. The Deputy Grand Master of the Oddfellows stated that the Insurance Bill was a most serious blow to mutual thrift and provides no financial gain to compensate for the loss of independence.

Nothing is known officially of the Honolulu report that Britain is fortifying Fanning Island as a coaling station.

At Mr McGowen’s instance the Board of Trade is establishing in April a branch of the Trade Commissioner’s office at Sydney. Sir George Reid had a satisfactory interview with the Minister for Agriculture at Berne in connection with the admission of meat. Already increasing supplies of Australian meat are reaching Switzerland. Judge Eady has declared Horatio Bottomley to be guilty of misfeasnace and breach of trust in transforing shares as fully paid on which nothing had been paid—115,242 out of 147,092 of these. .slfares ; had 'been sold for hisbenefit. Bottomley has been ordered to pay £3773. " Washington, January 30. Political circles closely in touch with Mr Roosevelt declare that the ex-President is not likely to refuse nomination f6r tine Presidency if the call is sufficiently representative. Two additional battleships placed on the 1912 programme have been abandoned by a Democratic caucus decision.

This point was attacked by the Naval Secretary (Mr Dickinson), who declared the United States required ,r larger navy, in order to adequately deal with the problems that may arise on the opening of the Panama Canal. New York, January 31. ,

The earnings of the Steel Trust for the fourth quarter of last year were 23,100,000 dollars, and 19,900,000 dollars were absorbed in ordinary dividends. Rumours that Britain intended ,to take possession of the Palmyra Islands have reached the State Department. The latter possesses no knowledge of action on Britain’s part. The question exists whether the British annexation of 1889 was cancelled prior to the Hawiian title. If not the Palmyra Islands ought to belong to the United States, as an American captain in 1852 caused their annexation to the then kingdom of Hawaii. Reports from El Paso, Texas, state that the town of Juarez is given over to riots and looting. The garrison, revolting, secured possession of the town. Eight persons were killed and many fatally injured. The civic heads were locked in the gaol and criminals released. Several warehouses were burnt, efforts being made to dynamite the custom house to secure Government funds which were hidden in the vaults.

Obituary: Edward Hawley, presid-1 out of the Minneapolis-St. Louis rail-j road, at Dawson City. Ottawa, February 1. Tbe prohibition against tobagganing in the public parks at Toronto on Sundays lias aroused intense opposition against the City Council. Grave fears are entertained for the At Winnipeg nine million bushels await threshing and sixty millions are unshipped. Berlin, February 1. The Kaiser in a rescript expressing thanks for birthday congratulations states that the sentiments which the Frederick the Great bicentenary celebrations unlocked in the hearts of young and old were a guarantee that Frederick’s spirit lived on despite the many disagreeable phenomena of the present time. Tbe phrase is generally regarded in Berlin as a reference to the Socialist victories. A ferry boat collided with a cargo boat at Hamborn dining a blizzard, eight persons being drowned. Paris, January 31. Yvonne .Bertellicr, aged 17, a brilliant musician, shot fatally with a revolver her mother and step-father whilst asleep in bed at St. Denis. She

lion ran to her lover’s house in the niddle of the night and confessed to he crimp, alleging that her step-faci-n' ill-lised her mother.

Three burglars, armed with Brownbig pistols, were surprised while rob>ing a goods depot at the Orleans station. They fired on the railwaynen who attempted to capture thorn, ind jumped on a train just leaving for Paris. Gendarmes at Angerville were idvised by telegraph, and attempted :o arrest the miscreants, who killed me and wounded another. The robbers then fled, excepting one, who remained on the train after it had irrived.- He blew out his brains in the telegraph office, where he had locked himself. The inhabitants of Angerville chased the others and attempted to lynch them for the gendarme’s murder. One who was caught said he was a Canadian named Oscar Wild. The gendarmes pursued the other to Etampes, where he ■ suicided, crying, “Hurrah for anarchy!” The so-called Wild, who was arrested after getting into an Orleans for a Paris train, has been identified as Joseph Ronard, who was associated with those alleged to have been concerned in the outrage at Montmartre last month, when a bank messenger was shot and robbed. Sofia, January 31. A Turkish band attacked the Bulgarian monastery of the Blessed Virgin at Ishtib, bound nine monks and conducted them to the church, where they were decapitated, the church deserted and the monastry plundered. Vienna, February 1.

Disquieting activity exists among the Bulgarian bands in the Halepa and Koprili districts, where they killed four men and two women and cut the bodies to pieces, alleging treachery on their part. Nine others were murdered in the Granischa forest for telling the authorities their whereabouts. A priest and live villagers at Kadaskud were murdered out of revenge for the death of a revolutionary leader. A bomb factory was raided at Radovischt and nine soldiers killed by a premature explosion. Gibraltar, February 1.

Their Majesties witnessed the trooping of the colours of the Staffordshire regiment and the march past of the garrison.

The infant on Carlos represented King Alfpnso. Capetown, February 1.

Sir L. Jameson has tabled a motion of censure on the Government on account of the treatment of Civil Servants. The “Cape Times” states that retrenchment and replacements have kept the departments in a ferment and the Government’s action has been tinged with racialism, despotism, and favouritism. Yukon, February 1.

War is threatened between the-Indi-an tribes on the White River over the ownership of hunting grounds. > Disputes -and -inter-tribal. murders - are occurring in the north-west.' The mounted police may intervene.