GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 20, 16 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

NAT! NHS IN LUCK

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.'; (United Press Association.) (Received 8.-15 a.m.) Durban, September 15. Some natives unearthed a bag con taaning GOO sovereigns on the bank of the Klip river, where it is supposed to have been buried during the sieg< of Ladysmith.

EARTHQUAKE PAXIC. (Received 8.4 a.m.) Constantinople, September 15. Four more earthquakes have occurred, the longest lasting 70 seconds. No damage was done, though many of the populace were panic stricken, and spent the night in the open air. TORPEDO BOAT FATALITY. (Received 8.-15 a.m.) Berlin, September 15. 'During the naval manoeuvres a torpedo boat .sank after colliding with the battleship Zahringen, and five were drowned. ASSASSINATED IN DAYLIGHT. (Received 8.45 a.m.) St. Petersburg, September 15. Colonel Lupakoff, head of the political police, was assassinated in daylight) in the street of Piatizerk, in the Caucasus. The assassin escaped. A DIABOLICAL ACT. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Paris, September 15. Two ruffians were sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Benziers for saturating a dog with petroleum and setting a light to it. The dog cet a child on fire and the child died from the effects. The public prosecutor demands that the Court of Appeal should inflict a heavier sentence.

ARRESTED AND RELEASED. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, September 15. Three Germans wen; arrested for iking photographs at Dover, but Bltsfactory explanations were tendered md they were released. PUGULISM. Jim Flynn claims the heavyweight ■hampionship on the retirement of fack Johnson. RELEASED. (Reccivetl 9.15 a.m.) Paris, September 15. M. Rousset, who was allegedly vrongfully sentenced to imprisonment or life while attached to the French vrmy in Morocco, has been released. WIRELESS FOR SUBMARINES. The French submarines arc being itted with wireless. SURGERY FOR CANCER.

Berlin, September 15. At a conference of medical men penalising in women's diseases, there \as a consensus of opinion that siirrery was the only effective panacea or cancer. A NOVEL PLEA. Walter SnelL, ex-Judge of Dresden ourt, charged with obtaining £3OOO >y false pretences, pleaded that he oped to redeem himself by ma:ryug an American heiress. CHINA'S ARMY. St. Petersburg, September 15.

Chinese advices state that the third division of the army has left Paotingfu cor Manchuria to operate against Mon*olo. CLOSE RACING. London, September 15. In one of the events at Alexandra Park, Myriad and Tinto ran a dead heat and the nm-,off also resulted i a a dead heat, so the stakes were divided.

THE CASE OF DH„ RUSSELL. PUBLICATION OF EVIDENCE PROHIBITED, (Per Press Association.) Christehureh, September 16. Dr. Charles James Russojl, whose age was given as 82, was charged tfnF morning with committing an dloga operation. The Magistrate prohibited the publication of the evidence, wind, is now being taken.

THE CO-QPERATJVE SYSTEM.

UPHELD BY MINERS' UNION. (Per Press lAssociation.) Reef ton. September 16. At a special general meeting of the Inangahua Miners' Union, hold yoster clay, 140 wore present. The executivi reported that no further developments wore expected until the Arbitration Court considers the appointment ol irbitration on 27th inst. It was do i: 11 vI to vigorously protest against r.he Government's nronosal to < onstruc public works in the Dominion on th contract system and to strongly urge a continuance of the co-operative system.