GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 16 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Uy Electric Telegraph.-Copyright.) (United Pross Association.> London, April 14. Mr. Wilson, .secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance, estimates the 1911 drink bill of the United Kingdom at £162,707,229, an increase cf £5192 on 1910.' , , v l 1 The British Museum has published a Coptic version of the greater part of the Book of Deuteronomy, the whole of the story of Jonah, and nearly all the Acts, from a papyrus found in 1911. This is a copy of a pre-exist-ent document, and not an independent translation. It was probably written before the end of the third century, and confirms the spread of Christianity in Egypt. lenna, April 10 ; Labo, a land-owner, won an action against ' Hanco, a neighbour. The latter fired at the Judge, but missed him. With a second shot he killed Labo. Hanco then committed su:cide. St. Petersburg, April Id. Advices from Tabriz state that Sal-ar-ed-Dowleh, with 8000 cavalry, ha; occupied Zinjan. Copenhagen, April Jo. Professor Hanover has invented an electric accumulator of five-fold the storage capacity of the ordinary accumulators. .. .. r Constantinople, April Id. A Bulgarian band destroyed a blockhouse at Palanka with dynamite, killin<r four Turkish soldiers. A band of dynamitards has been captured at Monastir.