GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 2 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph (United Press Association.) London, August 31. Tiic King lias donated £IOO to the Mansion liouse ear Uaquake i'und, and tne (pi ecu £SO to the .Norwich Hood fund. i nere is an unconlirmed rumour that tne Royal Packet Company is negotiating lor tiie acquisition oi the Peninsular Company. (deceived 2, 9.0 a.in.) London, September 1. i-\ spy was detected sketching at Rosy Mi. lie was cliasod, but escaped. U bile a small steamer was leaving the dock at Liverpool the captain dropped dead and tine steamer, being without control, collided with and sank the Spanish steamer Lista. .! lie herring season in north-east Scotland yielded £3,580,000, which is a record for a quarter of a century. The fisherman received £1,790,000. The Peninsular and Ro\ al Mail Companies disci ai m amalgamation. Obituary: Olivo Murial, Lady Frances Hope. (Received 2, 9.45 a.m.) Homo, September 1. At Russia’s instance King Emmanuel pardoned Countess Tarnowska, at present undergoing sentence at A en;cc for instigating the murder of Count Kamarow-ski in September, 1907. Countess Tarnowska is ill. (Received 2, 9.45 a.m.) Berne, September 1.

Aii insane soldier named Schwartz ■barricaded [himself in a room at Romanshorn and fired for six hours at those attempting to dislodge him. He killed six and wounded several. Schwartz escaped to the woods but was arrested after killing one of his pursurerß. Paris, August 31. Made! ine Grondona, a singer at Nice, hearing that her lover Nicholas Dikavitz, a -Russian architect, had married, shot Siam dead and surrendered to the police. Vienna, August 31. A brake failing on a motor car, the car fell over a precipice. A girl and a lady were killed, and another is in a critical condition. Brussels, August 31, Italy notifies that she withdraws from the Sugar Convention in September, 1913. Berlin, August 31. The national aviation subscription has reached £300,000. Ottawa ,August 31. It is understood that the Government will not introduce marriage legislation during the coining session, considering like Privy Council decision sufficient. Mr Lancaster, who introduced a Bill dealing with the No Temarc decree, will not reintroduce the measure, as he is satisfied to leave the matter as it is.

A meeting of descendants of French .seigneurs, the earliest colonisers of Quebec, demanded arbitration for their grievances before the Hague tribunal. Tjbey claim to have been dispossessed of lands held by treaty. New York, September 1. A small boy accidentally caught a attached to a balloon at Flint, Michigan, and was lifted up 2000 feet in mid-air. The aeronaut worked frauticnly to pull the rope which the boy was clinging to into the ear, but failed, and the body fell to the earth and crashed through the roof of a barn. A huge crowd witnessed the accident. Many women fainted. Tokio, (August 31. A room in the Palace adjoining the death chamber has been set apart as •\ sanctuary for the Emperor's spirit. Services will be held, in it till the end of the year’s mourning. (Received 2, 9.0 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 1. By tlbe fall of eight hundred tons of rock in a quarry at Juka seven men were killed and valuable machinery destroyed. (Received 2, 9.0 a.m.) Rio de Janeiro, September 1. Several were killed and wounded and a number of buildings were burned in political riots at Para. Order was restored.