GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 70, 18 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, March 16. In the House of Commons a Bill was read a second time allowing Parliament to grant a Local Government Board power to deal with slums at the cost of the local authority when the latter proves negligent. Derrick Wernher, the oldest sou of Sir Julius Wernher, has been declared bankrupt. His liabilities since ho left Oxford in June, 1900, total £85,000. The father paid £25,000 of his university debts and then advertised that he would be no longer responsible. St. Petersburg, March 16. A mad peasant at Shmkurst decapitated his wife and seven children with an axe. By an explosion at the Donets Company’s mine at Italianka, fifty were killed. Mons Do Giors, at present Russian Ambassador at Vienna, succeeds M. Charikoff, as Ambassador at Constantinople. Rome, March 16. Eliza Ganelli, a shop girl, who instituted a suit for £IO,OOO for breach, of promise against Caruso, the famous tenor, has lest her case, on the ground that her honour remained intact. The Court censured Caruso’s conduct, and ordered him to pay the costs. Washington, March 16. President Taft is initiating a. movement for the formation of a national board of trade, with a view to the greater development of trade. House Commit to of Inter-State and Foreign Commerce agreed to an amendment barring all railroad-owned ships engaged in the coastwise trade using the Panama Canal. Railroads which may absorb water lines are also barred. New York, March 16. Two outlaws involved in the Hillsvillo courthouse fight have boon captured. A woman injured in the light has succumbed. A foreman on a railway section at Atlanta dreamed that a" bridge had collapsed. _ On awakening lie discovered that it was really yvreckcd. He at once gave warning and saved an approaching train, El Paso, March 17. The rebels captured General Mills, loader of the Federal troops, after a sharp engagement in the Laguna district, and ordered him to be shot. All foreigners in the Laguna country are fleeing to the frontier. Havana, March 17. The battleship Maine was raised and towed, into deep water and sunk. Amid the thunder of saluting guns, the dead were removed from the wreck and borne through tiie streets. They were then placed aboard battleships and conveyed to Washington. Bombay, March 16. Sir Jacob Sassoon, who has presented three lakhs of rupees (£10,000) to the Government of India, lias offered three lakhs more to erect a pavilion on Apolo Bunderl to commemorate King George landing. (Received 18, 1.5 p.m.) London, March 17. Bosch lias been ordered to be extradited for receiving the jewellery of the Dowager Queen of Siam, valued at £BO,OOO for disposal. The:Hop. Rupert Guinness,‘Unionist, was returned unopposed for South East Essex, in place of Mr. Kirkwood, who resigned. Upwards of half a million people have visited “The Miracle” at Olympia. Last night’s was the closing performance. A taxi-cab at Farnborough dashed into a company of infantry engaged in night operations. Many men were severely cut and two are in a critical condition. i , ... The Court of Aldermen decided that Sir Thomas Brooke Hitching was unfit to lie an alderman. He Was recently elected for the Farringdon ward. He was accused of speculating in the shares of a company which the vestry of which he was a member intended to acquire.

(Received 18, 1.5, p.m.) Berlin, March 17. A corporal and two soldiers at Millheim surprised three burglars in a canteen. After showering bottles, glasses, and plates on the soldiers, one man surrendered, but the others decamped, and, paying no attention to the summons to halt, were shot dead.

Herr Wermuth, Treasurer, has resigned owing to the Government financing the Armaments Bill by meant of anticipating surpluses of existing taxation and the inheritance tax. Herr Kueshn succeeds him. (Received 18, 8.15 a.m.) . Paris, March 17. M. Poincare, speaking in the Chamber, said that while she was determined to respect Spanish rights in Morocco, France was entitled to legitimate compensations. , Dr Charcott has been awarded the French Geographical Society’s large gold medal as recognition of his Antarctic work.

(Received 18, 8.50 a.m.) . . Capetown, March 17. Revision of the tariff is unlikely, owing to divergencies in the Cabinet over the report of the Commission.