GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 83, 3 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DISTRESSED, CREW RESCUED. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 2. The German liner Cape Ortegel rescued the crew of the British steamer Barceloana which foundered in the Bay of . Biscay in a gale. GOLDBERG DIAMOND ROBBERY. London, December 2. Stanley, a taxi-cab driver, has boon arrested in connection with the Goldberg diamond robbery. Three men seized Goldberg, a Hatton Harden diamond dealer/near his residence at Hackney, on the 17th inst., and stole £I3OO worth of diamonds, and escaped. INVITATION FROM AUSTRALIA. (Received 10.35 a.m.) London, December 2. George Reid has communicated the Commonwealth’s invitation to the British Association, Sir Charles Lucas being specially invited. The invitation has given much satisfaction. STRUCK DEAD AT A FUNERAL. Johannesburg, December 2. During a funeral at Germiston Cemetery of a man named McCann, who was killed by an explosion at Victoria balls transforming station, lightning Struck half of the Anournem to the ground, killing one and injuring sixteen, five severely.

THE SHEFFIELD TRAGEDY. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, December 2. Mrs Nowill, the wife of a Sheffield manufacturer, who mysteriously disappeared from a fashionable hotel in New Quay, lias been found in Newport. London, December 2. Fishermen found the body 0 f Mrs Nov ill on the rocks at New Quay. They were seeking for it because it was the ninth day after the disappearance. Mr No will, the husband, and hundreds of spectators watched the coastguard lifting the body up a high cliff by rope ladders. Other facts in this case are that James Delay, a retired Singapore soli-' citor, residing at the same 'hotel, after participating in the search, became distraught and committed suicide. A codicil to Delay’s will left Mrs. Nowill a considerable sum. Evidence at the inquest on Delay indicated only friendliness between deceased and Mrs. Nowill.

MISS BARROW’S DEATH. ■As the result of the confession by Seddon’s widow, she and her second husband have been driven out of Birkenhead. i GREAT FIRE AT GLASGOW. (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, December 2. Sixty thousand pounds’ worth of damage was done and hundreds were thrown out of work through a great fire at Campbell’s, who were the largest warehousemen in Glasgow. THE THEATRICAL TRAGEDY. At Clearkenwell, Annie Cross, who is over six feet in height, was remanded on a charge of murdering Jessie Mclntosh at. a negro party gathering.