GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 52, 25 October 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THREATENING BEHAVIOTJR

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Tress 'Association.) .. London, October 24. Frederick Lowton and William Dcnningan, were charged with threatening with a revolver at Baltham. The police stated that Dcnningan had been in Australia, and was “a daring chap.” PROPORTION AL REPRESENT ATION. . London, October 24. Sir-E. Grey, speaking at Glasgow, advocated proportional representation. Large electorates were not a security against corruption. While in Canada every .person whose opinion he valued agreed that the franchise was made too cheap in Canada and the United States. A wide franchise and majority representation meant the rule of the plutocracy. THE TRADE COMMISSION. London, October 24. .At the Trades Commission a number of prominent business men gave evidence in favour of the Government co-operating in a trade mark's exhibition, showing the wrongful marking of foreign goods. _ Mr Urnney urged the desirability ot cultivating raw material for oil distillation in the Dominions. Mr Stanley Machan advocated further growing of oranges, citrons and lemons in Australia, and also fruit P«lp- . , TRADE RELATIONS. RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA. Vancouver, October 24. Sir James Mills, interviewed, said that he met Mr Foster, the Canadian Minister recently in London, and assured him that Australia was extremely anxious to negotiate for reciprocity with Canada. The Commonwealth was desirous of improving communications with Canada wherever possible. Canada’s manufactured products were finding ready markets in Australia and New Zealand. Since Auckland had been .made a port of call, the trade between New Zealand and Canada had felt a great stimulus. MEAT FOR THE PEOPLE. Berlin, October 24. In consequence of the butchers refusal to sell Russian meat imported by the municipality, infuriated women stormed the stalls, trampled the meat underfoot and flung sausages at the butchers. The police cleared the markets. . The women then looted the neighbouring shops. The butchers allege that the profits are inadequate. The municipalities estimates that they make 40s from an ox and 16s from a W ’ THE LIFE OF CHRIST.

lA CINEMATOGRAPH VIEW. London, October 24. A cinematograph of the life of Christ, exhibited at Queen’s Hall, cost £20,000. Forty-two actors were sent to Palestine and Egypt for the production, which embodies realistic scenes, including the scourging at Calvary. Many clerics deprecate the enterprise. THE CZAREVITCH.

/ (Received 8.5 a.m.) St. Petersburg, October 21. The Czarevitch was injured in jumping from a cupboard whore he had climbed. The Czar is too grief-stricken to transact business. (Received 10.35 a.m.) The Czarevitch shows a slight improvement. GOLD AND A WOMAN. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Johannesburg, October 24. The police have discovered methods whereby unwrought gold is stolen from the mining companies and smuggled to England and the Continent under, the guise of electro-process blocks in which the trade reached a million pounds a year. A woman is the prime mover in the fraud. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. London, October 24. The official facts are that the underwriting in the million and a half New South Wales loan at 4 per cent, ten years’ debentures, price of flotation £99.

THE LEATHER INDUSTRY. (Received 8.50 a.m.) t. London* October 21. Before the Empire Trade Commission Mr James Powell, chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce, in the leather (section condemned the Wasteful manner of branding Australian hides, which were also badly flayed. He estimated Australia thus lost a million and a half sterling yearly, as compared with the Argentina, where small brands were used, and where there was more careful flaying. He condemned the use of glucose, which is giving Australian hides a bad reputation. Leather was still sent to England as hides in a form which English tanners abandoned • forty years ago. COMMANDER’S SUICIDE. (Received 10.35 a^m.) Admiral Chagin, commander of the Czar’s yacht, committed suicide by shooting himself. LOOTING BUTCHER’S SHOP. Berlin, October 21. The crowd looted a large butcher’s shop in Schererstrasee and wounded

the manager before police dispersed them.

CHEAP MEDICINE

(Received 10.15 a.in.) London, October 21

The majority of the speakers at a meeting of Liverpool chemists declared it to he impossible to accept Is (5d or even 2s for drugs without incurring bankruptcy. LAUNCHED. The Marlborough has been launched. MRS. PANKHURST. Sir Rufus Isaacs, in the House ol Commons, said it was not intended to prosecute Mrs Pankhurst for her recent speech in which she advocated the wholesale destruction of property. LORD ROBERTS’ SPEECH. A number of Liberals, including Messrs Markham Noel, Buxton, Silvester, Horne, Ryles, Morcll, Spicer and Murray, and MacDonald have signed a protest against Lord Roberts’ Manchester- speech. The protest expresses disbelief of Germany having warlike intentions and deplores the bitterness that such statements cause.

FI HE IN CHICAGO HOTEL. {Received 11.20 a.m.) New York, October 21. At Chicago a lire broke out in Morrison and Velcy’s hotels, which adjoin. Five hundred people were in the hotel and the guests fled for their lives. Numbers were rescued screaming in firemen’s arms. Ad Wolgast, tiie well known pugilist, and Mrs Wolgast were nearly caught in the flames. The hotel annex was gutted. (Received 11.10 a.m.) 1. London, October 21. After the launching of the battleship Marlborough some shackling injured Commander Withrop iii the head, and he was removed to the hospital. Several ringers were injured.