MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 75, 21 November 1912, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The Springboks beat the North of England by 17 points to nil. A St. Petersburg'cable states that robbers altered the signals and hoarded an Ekaterinburg train. They robbed thirty passengers and escaped The Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union manifesto orders members after the Ist of January to refuse to sail with non-unionists. Under a William IV Act , Justice Rentoul has decided that a bookmaker can recover from a defaulting client winnings he may have previously paid the defaulter, provided the payment was made by cheque. The Under-ground Electric Company lias taken over the Central London and City, and South London Tubes. The amalgamation is part of a contemplated general combine of the city’s traffic systems. The aggregate capital involved in the Under-ground group is 46£ millions. Through a boiler explosion on the cruiser Nishin, during its temporary stranding at Shimoda ,twenty were killed. i In the Adelaide Assembly a Bill empowering the Government to advance £400,000 annually for the erection of workmen’s houses was passed. Before the Marconi Committee, Mr King, Secretary of the Post Office, recalled, declared that the contract did not confer on Marconi a fragment of monopoly. The reason for the hurry was the danger lest Britain should bo forestalled. Where a long-distance station was already established, it would be impossible to put another anywhere in the vicinity for long-dis-tance wave lengths.* The chairman read a letter from the president of the Federal wireless in the United States, stating that the company was using the Paulsen system for constant communication between San Francisco and Honolulu by day and night.