GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5, 3 May 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph .--Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 2, 11. 10 a.m.) New York, May 1. The Government does not desire to interfere with the tariff system, since the Tariff Commission Bill was killed by the Liberal vote in the Senate. The \ increasing prosperity of the country might be injured if tariff tinkering - was proceeded with. The Dcpart- • ment of Commerce had the first hold \ on the inquiry, which would be of a purely departmental nature with a view to ultimately forming a tarlifi' measure. London, May 1. At the Oceana inquiry passengers gave evidence of a Lascar panic. It was stated that the Lascars tried to get into tiic boats. Complaints were made of lack of control over passengers, the insufficiency of skilled boatmen and the leakiness of the boats. Miss Ellen stated that a steward had to drive away Lascars looting lifebelts while putting hers on. Constantinople, May 1. The steamer Texas, sank at Smyrna, was not mined, but was sank by a shell after blank shots had been fired for refusing to follow the channel. Enver Bey reports the capture of two Italian guns at Tobruk. Forty Italians were killed. A court-martial at Ishtib sentenced four of these who participated in the dynamiting of the mosque to servitude for life and 39 others to terms varying from a mouth to fifteen years. Paris, May 1. An express from Calais lias been derailed. Ten pasengers were injured, including several English people. The rails had been removed. The incident is attributed to an Anarchist May Day outrage. ~ (Received 2, 10.0 a.m.) j M Cairo, May 1. ■ pie native court sentenced, in Absentia, Mahomed Paria Bey, Nationaljleader, to'twelve months' imprsonm'en 'for seditious speech, and two editors to three months' imprisonment for publishing it. (Received 2, 10.0 a.m.) London, May 1. ' ; j After twelve-years' digging a quantity of Dover'Coal has 'been sent to 4-he London market. (Rceived. 2, 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, May' 2. Sydney's birthrate for April was the highest since April, 1897, and 11 per cent above the average of the last five years. Melbourne, May 2. Census return giving religious classifications in the Commonwealth show the following figures: Leading sects: Church of England 1,710,443, Catholic 921,425, Presbyterian 558,836, Methodist 547,806, Congregational 74,040, Baptist 97,071, Church of Christ 38',748, Salvationists 26,005, Protestants (undefined) 109,801. ' Freethinkers number 3254, Agnostics 3084. The steamer Peregrine with over 100 passengers and a large general cargo was leaving the river when a plate over an old porthole was displac-' ed. The water gained rapidly and the captain beached her near the entrance to the bay. She is at present sinking. The passengers wore landed. ■ The damage to the cargo will be unknown until the steamer is temporarily repaired and re-berthed. Arrangements have been made by the Government Statist to draw up an anthropometric standard for the children of the Commonwealth. Sydney, May 2. Mr MeGowen Mad an unemployed deputation a sharp lesson, and declared that applicants for work refused jobs at 9s to lis. In reply to statements that people were committing suicide and that babies were starving in Sydney owing to the scarcity of food, he declared that he could guarantee that nobody could starve in Now South Wales.