GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, October 16. Sir Kinlock Cooke, testifying at the Empire Commission, recommended the creation of an Imperial Emigration Board linking up the labour exchanges of the Motherland and the Dominions. Hundreds of cases of ptomaine poisoning have occurred at Manchester through eating tainted pork. Three victims are dead. The House of Commons Committee is considering the powers of the Irish Parliament. An amendment seeking to enumerate them was guillotined. A number of Greek miners on strike at Ely; Nevada, attacked the strikebreakers. One negro Hod homo, defending himself with a shot gun until rescued. Constant outbreaks of lawlessness are keeping the mining district in a ferment.

The British Admiralty returns show the igrpss naval expenditure from 1912-13 to total £45,016,000 compared with Germany £22,600,000, United States £26,500,000, Italy £8,500,000, France £18,000,000, Russia £17,600,000. Doctor Adeny, in his presidential'address at the Congregational Assembly at Manchester, said that England’s greatest economic requirement was" a living wage for agricultural labourers and habitable cottages instead of picturesque mins. Posterity would be amazed at the callous complacency of modern Christian® towards poverty and squalid misery. Crisp (London) states that China must have £20,000,000 within a year if pressed for the payment of the Boxer indemnity. His group is prepared to give a further £10,000,000. Crisp outlined the scheme for a Chinese State Bank, with a capital of £20,000,000, whereof the Chinese Government would find half, and the remainder might be subscribed in England, Franco, Germany, Russia and America. He declared that Japan’s pretensions with regard to China should not be encouraged. (Received 8.15 a.m.)

In the House of Commons Mr Rawlinson (Unionist- M.P. for Cambridge University) cross-examined Mr LloydGeorge on the Land Committee’s secret inquiries. Mr Lloyd-George was shouted down in attempting his explanation and there was much uproar. A hundred and twenty'Socialists in the Reichstag and 40 Labourite Commoners signed the manifesto in favour of aii Anglo-German friendship. ' 1 ’ (Received 1:0.10 a.m.)

1 < The Daghild was wrecked on the Kanin Peninsula on the north of Russia. The caTgo, consisting of 1600 tons was insured in London.' ;i

Two hundred people attended the Duke of Westminster’s dinner at Grosvenqr House .to-night. It is understood a quarter of a million has been subsidised towards the Imperial Preference Fund. At the inquest concerning the death of Flo Dudley (who was killed in a taxi-cab) the coroner’s jury reiuVned a , verdict of wilful murder against HdpWood, lier companion, who attempted suicide while being arrested. The Premier (Mr Asquith) will be absent from the House of Commons until Monday. Edinburgh Courts have annulled the marriage of Edward Sbiels, a wealthy Londoner, on the ground that be bad previously married a dressmaker by mutual consent under the Scottish form of marriage. Jeanette Polask, bis second wife, was awarded £SOOO damages. (Received 9.0 a.m.) In the House of Commons Mr Arthur Hamilton (Unionist -< M.P. for Hants) asked whether Australia- and Now Zealand were satisfied with the Marconi agreement imposing ten per cent tax on messages. The Postmas-ter-General (Mr Samuel) said they had arranged for wireless connection before the subject of a chain wireless station had been brought forward. The Government intended to erect six stations, increasing the number as experience dictated, eastward from the United Kingdom. , The result of the Cacsarcwitch Stakes was, as follows: Warlingham 1, Tootles 2, Winthorpe 3. Mr Will Thorne, giving evidence at the Imperial Commission, said the Industrial Council would not accept compulsory arbitration at any price. If arbitrators decided in the men’s favour, there was nothing to prevent employers ’ shutting down the factories. (Received 1.30 p.m.) oLmlon, October IG.

The Pall Mall Gazette says there

arc indications that the King retires from the turf and disbands bis stud at the end of the season. At a meeting at the House of Lords, Lord Avesbhry presiding, it was resolved to ask the Empire Trade Commission to receive a deputation in support of an Empire trademark. Sir George Reid, Hon. T. Mackenzie, and the Agents-Gcncral were present. Mr Snowden, in the House of Commons, asked Mr Harcourt whether the Victorian Government was recruiting engineers when there was much unemployment in that industry in Victoria. Mr Harcourt replied that some were engaged early in the year, hut none during the past two months. If Victorian engineers feel aggrieved they should approach the State Parliament. Berlin, October 16. The leading hanks have formed an association to promote a petroleum company, including the Doutchc, which seceded from the German Petroleum Company, the latter having concluded an agreement with a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company and refused to co-operate in the Government scheme. Brussels October 16. Wilmart, manager of the Ghont-Ter-neuzen railway, has disappeared. The frauds amounting to nearly £2,500,000 have caused widespread ruin in Belgium and Franco. One. of the Brussels Banks lost £IO,OOO, the Public Savings Bank £16,000, and another bank

£28,000. A leading stock broker suicided on losing £28,*000. Wihnart was a well known sportsman and director of many banks and industrial concerns. St. Petersburg, October 16. The army estimates for next year show a total of £54,558,175, an increase of 5,265,958. Paris, October 16. j The Old Men’s Asylum at Qnimper was destroyed by fire and five of the inmates were burned to death. A block of warehouses at Dunkirk, covering ten thousand square metres and filled with saltpetre, was burned, the damage being £BO,OOO.