GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 23, 20 September 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

FROZEN MEAT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) vUnitod Press Association.) Berlin, September 19. A conference of municipalities urged the Federal Council to facilitate the importation of frozen meat, amplifying inspection and modifying the duties.

Renter states that a British-German shipping line is being organised 1 for the import of Australian meat. The first German steamer will bring ten thousand sheep.

EX-JUDGE'S CRIME

Berlin, September 19

Snell was sentenced- to eighteen months', imprisonment and three years exclusion from office. Snell confessed .tliiifc be' bad pledged bis salary for sixteen years abend. [A Berlin cable dated September 15 says: Walter Snell, an ex-judge of the Dresden Court, was charged with having obtained £3OOO by false pre l tences. He pleaded that be hoped to redeem himself by marrying an American heiress.]

SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS ON THE CONTINENT.

Budapest]], September 19

Further universal suffragette demonstrations have occurred. During the noting two, hundred were injured, 24 .seriously. Eighty have been arrested The mob stopped trains and piled up and burned the ears. The police wer< stoned. A DIRIGIBLE BURNED. Tokio, September 19. A new army dirigible was burner at Yokohama. An escape of gas ignit cd it. SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, September 19. The mineral output for 1911 is valued at £47,679,294, an increase of ovei four millions.. ' The Chambers of Congress at Maritssburg passed a resolution by forty tr. four against the Industries Commission's recommendations to incroaisec duties.

General Hart states that the conference between General Smuts and the military authorities drafted a defence scheme which is satisfactory. Ii a few years there will be but a smah expenditure. LABOUR AND POLITICS.

Paris, September 19. The Congress of the general federation of labour passed a resolution proclaiming the Confederation's absoluix independence of political parties, anc prohibiting , political action withii trades unions. ,

ROYALISTS AND REPUBLICANS. Lisbon, September 19.' A political discussion between Royalist and Republican guests at a garden party ended in a light with revolvers ■and stilettos. Five were killed and t/u'rty wounded. RIOTING! IN BELFAST. London, September 19. Several houses were wrecked and looted by hooligans while the Unionist Club was parading in the Sandyrow district in Belfast. The police batoned the looters. SOUTH AFRICAN STEAMER SERVICE. London, September 19. lleuter reports that the South African mail contract provides for a subsidy of £171,000 on a voyage of sixteen days fifteen hours, reducible to sixteen days by payment of an additional £19,000, the Admiralty to be sat liberty to hire or purchase the fleet. THE ARMY MANOEUVRES.

Loudon, September 19. At the /manoeuvres at Newmarket

a backfire blew out the breech. One of the gunners was blown off, and another injured in the face. The manoeuvres terminated with neither side having any great, advantage. The Red cavalry captured the whole of the Blue mounted transports.

THE MONEY TRAGEDY. London, September 19. A verdict of murder and felo do so was returned in the Money tragedy. [A London cablegram of August 2G ■says: The Eastbourne murderer has been identified as Robert Henry Money, whoso sister was mysteriously killed in iai railway tunnel at Mursterham, 1905. There is no evidence that Money was connected with the Army.] .. iyj.