GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 14 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) New York, September 13.

Johnson, at the inquest on his wife said that her nervous breakdown was due to nursing him when he was suffering from suicidal mania, resulting from injuries received in fighting Jeffries. Johnson declared that he was still feeling the after-effects of the fight. His wife knew this, and was greatly depressed. Johnson asserts that he tried to choke himself to death on several occasions, but his wife saved him. A. verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Ottawa, September 13.

A curious natural phenomenon, likely to give Canada a new harbour on the Alaskan boundary, has occurred. Surveyors find that a great glacier, situated at Glacier Bay, is receding a mile yearly, according to measurements taken. Open water and a fine natural harbour will be secured for Canada by 1916. Ottawa, September 13. Canadian women suffragists opposed the threatened invasion of English suffragists. The suggestion is mode that the Government should bar them from landing as undesirables under the immigration laws. Ottawa, September 13. Dissatisfied with the cable reductions Mr Pelletier intends to consult Australia and New Zealand, with a view to .securing still lower transatlantic rates. Sir Henniker Heaton's proposed penny-a-word rate throughout the world is impracticable at present. London, September 13. Mr Hamilton Wicks, in a report or, Australian trade, sharply criticise* British manufacturers of agricultura implements and machinery for not supplying the requirements of the market, and for lax competition with Amer ica and Canada.