GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 28, 26 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, September 25. The German-Australian Steamship Company is increasing its capital by £200,000.

LINKS OF THE EMPIRE

London, September 25. "Lord Haldane, receiving the freedom of Dunbar, said three links of the Empire were the committee of Imperial Defence, affection for the Crown, and the judicial committee of the Privy Council, and he hoped still further to develop the committees' importance. BOSTON WOOL MARKET. New York, September 25. The Boston wool market reports that 65 per cent of the 1912 clip was sold. VOTING BY POST. Mr Bryan, addressing the Californian Legislature (a Republican body) recommended the introduction of the New Zealand postal voting system.

CANADIAN POLITICS

Ottawa, September 25

The Government will re-introduce the Tariff and other rejected Bills, and if the Senate persists in the rejection the Government will introduce a Bill for the reform of tho Senate on the lines of Mr Asquith's measure. THE AUSTRALIAN WORKING MAN. London, September 25. The Morning Post condemns the Aus tralian contract, the provisions of which handicap industrial development. The country should jiot restrict; immigrants except on tho ground of health and character. Australians were setting up false ideas of comfort, and therefore are content with sma.ll families. Much attention is devoted to petty quarrelling over hours and wages-.

Mr Theodore Fink, in reply, contends that Australian workers are more strenuous than British, and do more ir. eight hours than the latter in ten Workers do possess large families, anc the wages question is not a petty one. Contracts are let at starvation wage? in England. MILITARY TRAINING. The Chronicle gives prominence tr tho existence of the theory that then are 1000 drill shirkers in Australia, and to. the natural" resentment of 60,000 who are fulfilling their duty. AN IMPERIAL TRIBUNAL. Lord Haldane, speaking at Dunbar, said that without meddling in affairs of tho Dominions he hoped to provide a unique and remarkable Imperial tri bunal unlike any in the world.

CANADA'S FLEET. v (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, September 25. The Daily Mail's Toronto correspondent states that the Cabinet has de cided to ask for a vote for three super dreadnoughts in November, but will leave the permanent naval policy tc the future. If the Canadian fleet materialised, dreadnoughts would form part of it. Meanwhile they will be ai the Admiralty's disposal.

ABOLITION OF FOOD DUTIES

Berlin,. September 25

Twenty-seven Socialists at a women's meeting demanded the abolition of food duties.

RUSSIANS SEIZE ARMS

St. Petersburg, September 25

A Harbin telegram states that the Russian police seized a convoy of arms which was being escorted by Chinese troops from Kivangcheuio to Suichaiafu.

AND THE LAW. The Law Society's conference at Cardiff rejected tho motion to admit women. AUSTRIA AND SERVIA. Belgrade, September 25. Lieutenant Szekerosy, of the Austrian Army, and six armed soldier; were arrested on the Servian territory by frontier guards and conveyed t< Belgrade, where they will be charged with espionage. EXPLOSION ABOARD CRUISER. (Received 11.25 a.m.) London, September 25. An explosion aboard the cruiser Southampton at Govan Dock killed on< workman and injured another.