GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 29, 31 May 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.; (United Press Association.) London, May 30. The Co-operativo Congress at Portsmouth uirged constituent societies to grant a minimum v.. Scott's will leaves Lady Sackyille a million, which the missing ccdici may reduce to thirty thousand pounds. ''The "Daily Mail" cays that except for the income on £30,000 bequeathed to Lady Sackville, if the missing cod - c il is discovered and corresponds with the draft, the estate of a million will be diverted to Malcolm Scott Paris, May •>U. Twenty thousand troops are besieging Fez. The French garrison numbers 50,000. Madame Julia Duront, who Has been arrested, confessed that her aunt (named Gossclin lienncs) rightly recognised her as her assailant. bho was disguised as a bearded man ami robbed and almost strangled her aunt for disinheriting her. Lisbon, May 30. A debate in the Chamber on the . proposal that Judges should hold an enquiry on the conspirators now in custody provoked, a tumult and a .re. fight, in which the public joined. llk ' sitting was closed and infantry were requisitioned to cleat the galleries. The debate was then resumed, and s vote of confidence in the Govcrnmen, was carried by 68 votes to 26. Rome, May 30. The Government has invited to Italy all. Italian contractors, foremen, and workmen whom the Porte oxsmptn 'cd from expulsion. „ „. Washington, May 30. ■ The Senate lias adopted amendments in the Steel Bill placing farm implements on the free list, repealing Canadian reciprocity, and reducing duty on pig iron. A final vote has yet' to be taken. Athens, May 30. The Cretan deputies have been persuaded not to attend the CreekChamber. New York, May 30-_ A thousand waiters employed in the leading hotels have struck for increased wages. At the dinner hour a thousand would-be diners went dinnerlecs.

Capetown, May 30. The Defence Bill was cordially welcomed and read a second time in the Senate. General Smutts, Minister foi Defence, hinted 0* an early creation of a Ministry of Defence. (Received 31, 9.50 a.m.) London, May 30. Colonel Morrison, a former Baliol scholar, has given Oxford University ten thousand pounds towards the ostablisment of a pension fund for pros feasors.

(Received 31, 10.15 a.m.) London, May 30. Stuart Bolton, an Australian claimant to a part of the Duke of Fife's estates, died at Barnet Cottage Hospital. He had been playing an organ and. singing in the streets of Burnett, and claimed he was a fourth cousin of the late duke. (Received 31, 11 a.m.) London, May 30. Lord Derby, speaking at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, said Britain could gain much iu connection with her labour troubles if she studied Australian legislation. Berlin, May 30. Tn a railway accident at Salzburg eight persona were killed and fortyone injured.