GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) PILOT AND KAISER. “NOT EVEN. THE EMPEROR.” Paris, September 24. The Excelsior states that the Kaiser, when, aboard the Hohenzollern, entering a Norwegian port, grew impatient at the ship’s slowness, and telephoned to the engineers ordering increased speed. Nordhnns, an old Norwegian pilot, immediately telephoned to the engineers to disregard the order. The Kaiser angrily ordered the pilot to go below. Nordhnns refused, saying, “The ship is in my direction. Not even the Emperor is going to give me orders.” The Kaiser quietened down, and on the bridge next day decorated Nordiiuns. LORD KITCHENER. London, September 24. The. Manchester Guardian says that Lord Kitchener has come to England for an operation on the leg, which was broken in India. The surgeons deprecated its being re-broken, and advised that it had better be left for a time. Lord Kitchener will return to Egypt on October 3. (Recoved 9.11 a.m.) London, September 24. Lord Kitchener had departed for Cairo. . * :

A NEW ZEALAND LEGACY. London, September 24. Isabella Shillinglaw and Eliza Sliillinglaw, domestic servants in Scotland, have inherited £36,000 from their uncle Andrew Shillinglaw, a New Zealander.

THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. London, September 24. The Bank of Australasia shows:— Deposits £18,196,527, cash securities, £7,882,298, bills £17,065,355. CURE FOR PLAGUE. Washington, September 23. At the Hygiene Congress, Dr. Novy, of Michigan University, announced the discovery of a new micro-organism likely to be of great value in eradicating the bubonic plague. HAILSTORM IN ORANGE FIELDS. Madrid, September 24.-' I A hailstorm destroyed nthe Alcera orange fields. Damage was done to the extent of £250,000. - •», I HUNGER STRIKE IN. PRISON. St. Petersburg, September 24. A protest is Issued against criminals receiving tliirty lashes. Forty political prisoners pt Nertoinik prison, in Sibcrip, have {darted a J)ui]ger strike. Four committed suicide,, ,twp, opening their veins;, ajjd two taking poison, AN' INVENTOR IN INDIGENCE: Paris, September 24. Tellier, the inventor of cold storage, is living in indigence at Autenil., A .subscription has been opened for bis assistance.

CHEATIN’(I |OR TH,E KAISER’S , l .j > RlZEj r . . , ,i .Sqptomber 24. . The entire, 6,tli Company -pf the Ist Foot guards, to, the number of 120, are being tried at, Potsdam for cheating in the contest for. the Kaiser’s Prize. The contestants . were allowed thirty cartridges apiece, but suspicions wore aroused, and. when the 6th Company was searched 1700 excess cartridges were found hidden in their boots and bread wallets. CHINA’S LOAN. London, September 24. Five million of the London Chinese loan will be issued at the week-end at 5 per cent, at 95. ENGLISH FOR PACIFIC COAST. Ottawa, September 24. Mr George Doughty, interviewed, said the Government had in view the immigrating of English fishermen to populate the Pacific coast and form ultimately the nucleus of a Canadian, naval reserve. WATERSPOUT CAUSES DEVASTATION. Rome, September 24. A waterspout at Castellamare, Sicily, devastated the. town in a .few minutes. Twenty houses collapsed. Women and children were flung into the flood, and a number were drowned. Others were buried in the debris. Troops have been sent to the rescue. AN IMPOTENT NAVY. Paris, September 24. Le Temps says that the Admiralty is ordering powder from Sweden and Italy to tost its use for the navy. The paper states that half the French navy is powderless, and would bo unable to fire a shot if war wore declared. It is essential to suppress the present G overnment monopoly.

MURDERERS SING COMICS. Suva ,September 24. At the Supreme Court two Indians were charged with murder. In one case the accused attacked his victim, an Indian overseer, with an open knife, and almost severed his head from his body. The other cut Ills paramour’s throat in a lit of jealousy. Both were sentenced to death, and were escorted to the gaol singing comic songs. DEATH IN ROYAL FAMILY. . Madrid, September 24. The Infanta Maria Teresa, getting up for the first time since her confinement, fell dead of embolism in her husband’s arms. TRAGEDY IN THE COTTON FIELDS Ottawa, September 24. , Because of the importation of negroes to work in the cotton plantations, three farmers in the Briartown district wore shot, two fatally. The people refused to allow any negroes to live in the neighbourhood.