GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 3 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

o (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Associatihjpi) -4Hoohdon, Oo|o|sr 1. A con ferenepipftthe Minhrs \\ !F ede ra - attion, representing 600,005/ is being held at Swansea, Mr Smellie, in the presidential address, said mine owners were better off than before the strike. Legislation had ,added that threepence or fourpence per,, ton, but prices had risen Is 6d to 2s. The public could only he protected by State ownership. He favoured international organisation on .■.the lines of Syndicalism. Sir E. Carson was accorded a cordial welcome to Glasgow. The messages of God-spocd included one from Australia. Capetown, October 1. General Botha, speaking at Magaliesburg, deprecated Mr Smartt making naval defence a party question. He admitted something was required to protect oversea trade, but public opinion on the subject was not sufficiently mature. Loudon, October 1. A very miscellaneous selection was offered at the wool sales to-day. Prices were fully maintained for all sorts. New York, October 1. Sir George Reid, in a speech at the City Club, said Australia was not building a fleet throng'll a spirit of adventure, hut to protect the coast of her island continent ; although great, with a cover of peace and the only way he could sec to maintain it was being able to whip anyone who tried to fracture it. St. Petersburg, October 1. The notorious bandit, Kosotvsky, has been hinted at Odessa. Over two hundred “apaches” attended, and the police with photos of men wanted surrounded the cemetery and arrested 162.