GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 56, 1 March 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) .(Received 29, noon.) Vienna, February 28. Locvi, a jeweller, travelling on the Paris express was robbed of ten thousand pounds’ worth of pearls and diamonds, which were fastened inside his pocket. Lisbon, February 28. The gunboat Faro sank at Algarva after collision with a merchantman. Six, including the commander, were drowned. St. Petersburg, February 28. In October, 1910, the Austrian police arrested a monk named Macoch on a charge of murdering Ids cousin and eloping with his widow. He was also charged with committing a great jewel robbery at Czenstochowa, Poland, in October, 1908. The trial is now proceeding at Petrikoff, and there are a hundred witnesses. The chief prisoner is Father Hamazy Macoch, whom after arrest the Pope excommunicated. Macoch confessed that he murdered his cousin Vaclar Maeoch through whom he had sold the jewels, fearing his cousin would divulge the plot. The prisoner murdered him and the body was sewn inside a sofa which was subsequently found in a river. Ottawa, February 28. A heavy snowfall caused the collapse of many buildings in the city. The wooden roof of the Forum Skating Rink fell in, imperilling twenty skaters .and several employees. The owners of the skating rink had just recovered a- thousand pounds damages from a newspaper which alleged that the structure was unsafe and ought to be condemned under the civic bylaws. London, February 28. Influenza prevented Queen Alexandra and Princess Maud attending the funeral of the Duke of Fife. The Primate officiated, those present including the King and Queen, the Pi’ iyce of Wales, the Princess Royal and her daughters, Prince Arthur of

Connaught and many others. Tho service was private. Tl;e Hons a of Commons by 231 to 187 rejected a motion condemning the growth of national expenditure. Lord Choylcsmoae, interviewed regarding angry Canadian criticisms, said it was absurd to suggest that the new sighting regulations at Bisley were designed to handicap the Canadians. The latter had bean given an extension of time to alter their sights. Cecil John Wood has been appointed Bishop of Melanesia.

The Pacific Cable Board has accepted the tender of the India Rubber and Gutta Porcha Telegraph Works Company to construct and lay a cable from tho neighbourhood of Sydney, probably Bondi, to Auckland, and also to bring the Norfolk Island cable to Auckland instead of to Doubtless Bay. It is expected that both will be completed about Christmas. Tho Italian Salvage Company failed in its attempts to raise flic sunken sub-marine A 3, and the Admiralty 'has taken over the task.

Covent Garden brokers have decided that admission to the saleroom 'be restricted to ticket-holders, in order to prevent sellers by private treaty obtaining information regarding prices.

The Professors of Divinity at Cambridge Memorial College the removal of the restriction whereby divinity degrees are restricted to the Church of England. Sir E. H. Shackleton, interviewed, declared that Captain Scott should leave MiacMurdo Sound on February 10th, and roach Stewart Island throe weeks later, but Captain Amundsen, having helping winds, should reach Hobart earlier.

Probably the Filchner German expedition has boon frozen in Wedded Son. If not imprisoned, it would arrive at Punta Arenas or Buenos Ayres in April. In the House of Commons the Army Estimates were introduced. They total £27,860,000, an increase of £170,000 over last year. The increase is due entirely to the growth of aviation, whereon £308,000 is to bo •spent, compared with £1,280,000 expended by France. The War Office intends to establish a joint army and navy aviation school on Salisbury Plains. The whole expedition ary force will shortly be equipped with pointed bullet ammunition and re-sighted rifles. No satisfactory automatic rifle has boon produced; therefore the War Office is testing a new pattern magazine rifle.

The Court of Appeal uphold the decision in the Income Tax Commissioner's case again'st the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company that interest earned abroad though not remitted to the head office is taxable as profits of the company. Harland and Wolff have purchased the London and Glasgow Engineering Company’s yard at Govan. Washington, February 28.

Tho remai’kable death rate on American railways is exemplified by tho figures for the months of July, August and September last, 201 persons being killed and -1000 injured. Tho death rate, however, shows a considerable decrease over the corresponding period for 1910. New York, February 28.

The Department of Justice is investigating the moving picture business. Allegations have been made that a trust controls the business.

The cruiser West Virginia, acting under orders from the Navy Department, hoisted the Stars and Stripes at Palmyra Island, which Britain claims.

Obituary: At Seattle W. Hpiins, the millionaire manufacturer and capitalist, aged sixty. Ho started life as a labourer in a foundry and saved enough money to buy a blast furnace. He started polling mills and grew to bo the wealthiest man on the Pacific Coast of America.

At San Diego, California, the aviator Crawford fell two hundred feet from his aeroplane which had become unamanageable. The aviator vol-; planed but encountered air holes in the atmosphere and struck the earth, violently. He escaped with scratches. The Steel Trust Inquiry Committee; has published the, results of the investigation into accounts conducted'at the instance of the committee. The figures show that the J.P. Morgan' Company received twenty million dollars cash for organising the steel coin-, bine and the net profit for the first nine years reached a billion dollars. Statements made in 1907 to Mr Roosevelt to the effect that the Steel Trust only controlled sixty per cent of steel properties in the United States were untrue, as the Trust actually controlled eighty per cent. El Paso, February 28.

The •Sasquista rebels occupied Juarez unopposed, and now intend advancing to y capture Chihuahua. The spread of the revolt is alarming the Mexican Government. The attackers at Nelson Morris’ ranch were driven off. The American, rescue party, learning this, did not invade Mexican territory as intended. Paris, February 28.

Andre Hemartz, a butcher, was discovered in a train at Ohalons-sur-Saone with thirty knife wounds in his body. The murdered alighted with £l6O.

A motor car at Havre knocked down a number of people. The motorists, on being threatened -with arrest, fired a revolver and killed a gendarme. They then drove off at full speed, pursued by the police in another car. During the chase a girl was severely injured. The murderers escaped. Vienna, February 28. Tbo trial bus opened of three monks of St. Paulino Convent, at Czenstocbowa, charged with murder and sacrilege in September, 1909. Jamaica, February 28. In resentment against tramway fares a mob attacked a gaol at Kings-

tun and assaulted tho governor and his aide-de-camp. hi attempting to rescue them a party ol constables took refuge in a liquor saloon, the police fired a volley,_ killing one and wounding thirty, and tho moo fled.