GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 2 November 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 12..‘50 p.ra.) London, November 1. /At the Empire Trade Commission Mr Norton advocated a more even distribution of Australian produce and the means of direct regular shipments to Hull and Bristol. He proposed excluding the speculator in the butter market by the co-operation of producers and shippers and regulations for the London market price. He urged the adoption of the New Zealand system of grading. The Liverpool Court has decided that the Titanic’s bandsmen did not come within workmen’s compensation, and dismissed claims against the White Star Company. Berlin, November 1.

The Hamhurg-America line is extending the Eastern service from -Japanese ports to ’Frisco and Vancouver. (Received 1.45 p.m.) Vancouver, November 1.

The schooner Osprey, while attempting to enter Marshfield, Oregon, during a storm overturned and all aboard were lost. An aviator named Christofferson, hearing of the wreck, acroplaned over the sea and enabled the newspaper men to view the wreck. Christolferson tried a resue, hut the gale prevented. The reported intervention of the British Steam Navigation Company to establish a service between Calcutta and Vancouver is likely to originate the immigration problem in an acute form, as the Hindus are at present barred, British Columbia law excluding them unless they come direct without transhipment. If the service is established, Hindus will be able to comply with the law and thus flood Canada with Hindu labour. San Juan del Stir, November 1. A hurricane has destroyed Acapulco, four-fifths of the town being completely wrecked. The American Consulate

was unroofed. It is unknown whether any lives wore lost. [Acapulco is the most important port of Mexico. The harbour is very commodious, and is defended by a strong castle. On December sth, 1852, an earthquake destroyed all its principal buildings, besides a great portion of tiie Houses. The population is about 5000. J