GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

London, May 20

Lord Stamfordham, the King’s private secretary, has written to Mr Sedgwick stating that the King lias read the report of the first year’s work of fifty town lads in New Zealand with great interest. While Lieutenant Ashton was completing a successful flight on the Army grounds at Larkhill, Salisbury Plain, two thousand spectators closed in upon the shed, and Ashton was unable to avoid them. He killed a youth and injured four others. On Friday, 2.3,200 British schools and - 38,000 schools in the Dominions embracing 8,500,000 children will participate in tiie Empire Day celebrations. The Son go a Japanese cruiser battleship, has been launched at Barrow. She is 27,500 tons burden, with 70,000 horse-power capacity, and carries 14-inch guns. It is expected that she will develop a speed of 28 knots. Paris, May 20. The Prince of Wales is cruising with the French fleet on his voyage of instruction. Large rewards have been distributed to the persons who furnished clues to the motor brandits. Their names are being kept secret. The man who denounced Carony refused £BOO sterling.