GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 3 October 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COLLISION ON THE DANUBE

London, October 2

A boatful of Roumanian officers was sunk in collision on the Danube, and nine wore drowned.

SOUTH AMERICA’S NAVY

Buenos Ayres, October 2. The Government lias consented to the annulment of the contract for four destroyers being constructed at Caramel and Laird’s yards and the sale of another to an unnamed Power. The Argentine Government is ordering four new destroyers. CANADA’S NAVY. London, October 2. “The Times’ ” Toronto correspondent says that there are increasing signs that the Opposition will insist that the navy must he unequivocally under the control of the Canadian Parliament. THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Pekin, October 2. An auditor-general has been appointed with Cabinet rank. A special department will lie created to 10organiso the salt taxation. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS. Havana, October 2. Horrible revelations have been made with regard to the inkano at the National Asylum. Two thousand men and women are reported to he living in great squalor, nearly naked, starving, and herded together in foul courts. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. LEANDER EXPLAINS. London, October 2. Kirby, the Leander’s captain at Stockholm, referring to the Oivtnrnc conditions, says that the point of Middletpn’s. complaint is ; that the Australians mow grumble at an agreement to which, they were parties. Other nations'* had to he content with the result of the draw.. It was an exaggeration to say thaf |he Lennders had not Congratulated the Australians on their Henley win. There may not nave been spontaneous cheers when they saw the Australians first pass the post, hut afterwards they wore congratulated. 1 ■i A TRAIN HOLOCAUST. New York, October 2. Tw,o Piullmans, fopr day coaches, and ' jbwP( -express cars broke off the Louisville-Nashville ’ express and plunged over an embankment. They caught fire and were burned. The express messenger ■ was burned alive. The passengers were able to crawl out of the windows. Twenty were injured.

EXPLOSION ON A TORPEDO

AN OFFICER KILLED

New York, October 2. Lieutenant Morrison was ki led, and eight men injured, by the explosion of a steam chest on a torpedo destroyer.

MINERS’ CONFERENCE

(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, October 2

The Miners’ Conference at Swansea passed a resolution Urging State Insurance for aged and infirm miners by means of a special tax on profits. Speakers contended that the Minimum Act was ruinous to aged miners.

A,GENT-GENERAL’S BANKRUPTCY

(Received 10.40 a.m.) London, October 2,

The creditors of Sir Oornthwaite Rason, formerly Agent-General for Western Australia, passed a resolution in bankruptcy that the liabilities total £BOOO. Rason attributes bis position to being defrauded by firms now in bankruptcy, to helping others, and to borrowing money at heavy interest. The official receiver stated that the assets were negligible. , NEGOR LYNCHED. Convicts in the State prison at Rawlings, Wyoming, lynched Frank Wigwall, a negro arrested on a charge of assaulting a white woman. OUR CADETS. (Received 12.10 p.m.) Vancouver, October 2. The Australian and New Zealand cadets are guests of Australians and New Zealanders resident here. They visit Victoria for football matches and they are returning by the Zealandia.