MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 76, 22 November 1912, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Mr Bryan has been offered the Secretary of Stateship portfolio, states r Washington cable. < By a boating accident on the Hoog ley seven Europeans and forty native? were drowned. Count Zeppelin, in a letter to the newspapers, states that his airship: did not approach the English coast. The British directors state that they did not know of the Putumayo cruelties until 1909. For nine month, r thereafter they maintained tin stories to be untrue. The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Upper House convocation, commended the divorce minority’s report. It was a mistake to regard tin report as what the church wanted. It was what the nation needed. The 1913 German Estimates provide for two battleships, one armoured cruiser, two small cruisers, and a torpedo flotilla. Two and a half, million marks have been assigned for an an service.

Lord Halifax, presiding at the English Church Union, thanked God for the Balkan Allies’ success, securing for Christians what diplomacy was tor feeble or indifferent to effect. Re ferring to the Divorce Commission, In said that it was the positive duty ol the church to protect the morality oi the State by the abolition of divorce. John Crozier, ex-High Sheriff o' Fermanagh, and his wife, who is the stepmother, having been committed for trial for manslaughter, .causing the death of a son of seventeen through in nutritious food. They are also charp ed with illtreating two younger cliil dren. Seventy-three Glebe Island (Sydney) slaughtermen were fined £5, and one was lined for participating in the strike. All those employed by the Carcase Butchers’ Association slaughtering mutton and beef have been pro reading as usual. In the case oi other butchering firms, the men nov. declare that they will be working tomorrow, but not for the Carcase Butchers’ Association. The Australian Li thy to Factory af Annandale and its contents have been destroyed by fire. The damage is .210,000. A large quantity of oil drums exploded. In the fusillade the public school adjoining escaped, but the children were much alarmed by the explosions, and were sent homo. Rushton, art' employee at. the factory, waf _ severely burned before he escaped. Mr Lloyd George, replying to Mi Ontowaite, said that twenty-one millions’ worth of land had been cut up in. Australia in the year ending Jum 30, 1911, as a result of the laud tax. while the area under cultivation had increased by over two million acres eighteen months after the tax was first levied.