GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 39, 10 February 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 10, 9.30 a.m.) London, February 9. The Primitive Methodist education committee strongly censured the Government’s abandonment of its education policy. Reuter’s Bombay agent states that the liquidator of the Bank of Burma reports that the management was grossly reckless and the funds wore used, practically entirely for the purposes of the two directors. It is unlikely that the shareholders will receive anything. Bombay suffered to the extent of sixty lakhs of rupees. Indian depositors are demanding a prosecution. New York, February 9. The entombed miners at Bunker Hill have' been rescued unhurt through tho main shaft. The schooner Olympia with a seaman named Gonzales aboard broke her moorings at San Diego in a gale. She drifted to sea and was wrecked. Gonzales is missing. Capetown, February 9. Acceding to Mr Graaff’s representations, comparing the South. African press cable rate with the Australian deferred rate, the Eastern Extension Company has agreed to a reduction te threepence halfpenny from March Ist for deferred messages. Constantinople, February 9. In a conflict between gendarmes and a band of eighteen Greeks near Salonika five of the latter and three of the former were killed. Berlin,’ February 9. The navy estimates for 1912 include new construction of armament! at a cost of £12,041,000, a decrease of £465,000 compared with 1911. The Government builds fifteen instead ol -thirteen Dreadnoughts in the next six years. , Buenos Ayres, February 9. Congress 'has passed a law .compelling all citizens to vote. St. Petersburg, February 9. Two aviator pupils flying at Sevastopol fell. Idle petrol exploded and both were Incinerated.