GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 28, 26 September 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 11.35 a.m.) London, September 25. At the wool sales there was good competition for all sorts, prices being firm at opening rates. AUSTRIA'S NEEDS. , Vienna., September 25. Admiral Montecuccoli,' addressing the Defence Committee delegations, dedhfeed that the increase of the normal estimates in no wise corresponded with the country's needs. IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Capetown, September 25. Mr Smart, ' opening the Unionist campaign at Durban, asserted that it was undignified and unfair to accept British naval 'defence for nothing. The first thing Unionists should do on coming, into power would be to either increase the contribution of a .form of auxiliary fleet so that South Africans could stand alongside Canadians and Australians in maintaining the stability 6f the'Empire. . EUGENICS. ; (Received 1.45 p.m.) New York, September 25. Dr. Ha Wile, speaking at the Inter'national Congref-S'On hygiene, advocated a health' test hefOre marriages are allowed. If girls were educated on eugenic lines, they could teach men, consequently We' whole future of human race would be altered.

AN ACTIVE VOLCANO. Mount Wrangel in Alaska is in eruption.'; ; Seven crater!} are active, smoke , and lava being ejected. Great quantities of\ lava are overflowing the glacier on the mountain sides. NJCARAGUAN INSURGENTS. ■ it' W>'^ported : ;that ■ ini'lSt^gehis'killed'2S .tlnited 'States' mar,ih&%...;"]' If,the report be.true, American intervention is certain.