GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SHIPPING DISPUTES. /

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. 1 ; (United Press Association.)

.London, .September. 28. The Star' of, New Zealand has been refloated. She showed considerable leakage in No. ,1 hold. She is satisfactorily discharging meat from her forward holds', arid is being patched (up, preparatory 'to her 'being towed' to Liverpool: '".'•■" ' i

' The Hariau has been 'reinsured! sit' ai premium' r of. fc ten * guineas. '' Tholigb bumping badly, she will'probably', .be refloated''after discharging her cargo. Slle lias •be'en refloated!; apparently undamaged. f " " •' . • ' '"

BRITISH PREFERENCE. Ottawa,'September. 28. The Conservative press a.re attacking the manufacturers for their refusal t to' 'consider ; ifil 1 '■ grain-growers' challenge for an increase. in .British preference^.'v' I, The 'newspapers, hold that they should consider it immediately, if;ohly':feause*OT.^e; it would have 1 jidlitically throughout the country.

THE NORTH POLE,

Christiana, September 28

After conferring with Captain Nansen arid : 'the' Government, Captain Amundsen has postponed the expedition of the Fram to the North Pole for a year. The Oceanographer is unable to join the expedition at present, and it is impossible to replace him.

STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION

Rome, September 28

Stromboli is in violent eruption. Six craters are aflame, arid others are showering boiling water on the island, which is buried j n f rom wo | to six feet deep. There is great distress, owing to the destruction of the vineyards.

THE TOTTENHAM TRAGEDY

London, September 28

The mam who ran amok at Tottenham is named' Stephen Tii;us. He is apparently , an' Armenian and a malr of means;. Seeing a barmaid speaking. to some men, Titus commenced an altercation. He shot the manageress of the hotel dead, and seriously wounded the barmaid. He re'-loaded. his revolver in the street and held the crowd at bay. He shot a newsboy and two other persons before being captured after a severe struggle. MOTOR FATALITIES. Sydney, September 29. Two motor carsj en rouse to Hawi-.va-bury races, collided, and a chauffeur named Greig was killed and three passengers injured ,one -seriously. Brisbane, September 29. A motor-car overturned, and the driver, LaidlaW, was killed and one passenger injured. v . i - New York, September 28. At Norway, in Maine, a train hit an automobile, killed three men and injured two students. The car was wrecked.