MISCELLANEOUS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

The cable steamer Silvertown started yesterday laying the Sydncy-Anck-lancl cable.’The landing place of the cable is at Hindi, Sydney. The Sydney gas employees’ ballot will close on Tuesday night. Three companies are affected. It is feared that if a strike occurs it will cause a serious increase of crimes in those suburbs unprovided with electric light. During the past seven months three hundred thousand immigrants have entered Canada, of whom 200,000 came from Europe, and 100,000 from the United States, an increase of 13 per cent, on 1911. The ‘Post,’ Berlin, appeals to the Government to secure for the army the now composition , steel named Sehanmann. The invention is 30 per cent, lighter than nickel steel, and is impervious to rifle fire at distances whereat thick plates of the strongest nickel steel are easily pierced. Tnese claims are based on official tests in Saxony. It is stated that Russia, America, and Austria are endeavouring to acquire the invention. The ‘Taglische Rundschau,’ Berlin, 1 say that Germany’s most urgent need is the introduction before 1915 of another Defence Bill on the lines of the naval and military increases of last spring. The Unionist Conference (London) carried resolutions in favour <.f Stale assistance to enable agriculturists to acquire their holdings, and also endorsed the Unionist housing policy. It condemned the payment of members. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Oravia has been wrecked on the Falklands. All were saved. Five hundred Edinburgh students and others in procession wrecked a shop where placards alleging vivisection cruelties were exhibited. A hundred police endeavoured to effect arrests, and a fierce fight ensued. Several on both sides were injured. Twenty five students were arrested. The British troops in Africa, with the exception of 6500. will shortly be withdrawn. It is stated that this is due to the Union having enacted a defence scheme. General Beyers, the South Af rican Commandant, a't present in London, is surprised at the Imperial Government’s sudden announcement, especially as the local defence is only infantry. The “Weekly Despatch’ publishes an alleged confession by Airs. Sedclon. She admits Seddon carefully planned the Barrow’s death, and substituted a mixture made of fly papers and white powder for the doctor’s medicine. When she threatened to inform the police, Seddon declared he would kill her, and she kept silence, hoping his acquittal would save the children from disgrace. President Taft, at the Lotus Club, said his chief regret at relinquishing office was .because he would be unable to influence the Senate to pass AngloAmerican Arbitration. Sir Edward Grey, in a letter read at a Libera] meeting at Altwick, commenting on Unionist militancy, stated that as the measure to which the Opposition object can operate until it is passed three times or an appeal has been made to the country, the Uni nist violence is inexcusable. Notice lias been given in the House of Commons of questions respecting the supposed nocturnal visit of foreign airships to Shecraoss. Luchtinghsiam has been appointed Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs. He hopes to substitute a new RussoChinese treaty for . the Russo-Mon-golian treaty. Two girls named Nicholson and Colliiison, aged seven and nine years, were waylaid and murdered at Kimbworth under atrocious circumstances.