GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 87, 7 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A PICTURE PURCHASE

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December '6. The Felton Bequest has purchased Jean Gazin’s “The Rainbow,” for £BOO. ALEXANDRIA GOLD ROBBERY. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 6. The cases wherefrom the Alexandria gold was stolen were sent to England for examination, but disappeared. It is supposed the gold robbers intercepted them.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, December 6. There has been a fresh outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which is causing consternation. The Irish cattle trade is likely to seriously affect the Christmas trade. ' DISAPPEARANCE OF SPECIE. Rome, December 6. Four thousand pounds sterling, in transit from the Minister of War to the Island of Rhodes, disappeared, and a Brindisi postal official has been arrested. BANK CALLS UP CREDITS. Vienna, December 6. The action of the Austro-Hungarian Bank in calling up credits caused numerous bankruptcies. A DROUGHT BROKEN. Capetown, December 6. Good rains have fallen in the drought—stricken area. WIRELESS ENQUIRY. London, December 6. At the Marconi Committee enquiry, Colonel Mac Donaugh, of the War Office, said the/installation was regarded as urgent in 1910, owing to intention to install long distance wireless in German West Africa, hut the position was even more urgent now.

WORKERS MULCTED IN DAMAGES. London, December G. Air. Larkin, secretary, and five members of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union, were mulcted in £276 damages for conspiring to induce dockers not to work for an employer who refused to join the Stevedores’ Association. ENTICED TO HER DOOM. (Received 7, 9.15 a.m.) London, December 6. A respectably dressed man enticed Winnie Baker, aged twelve, a Girl Scout, from the drill mission hall at Woking, and both disappeared. The girl was discovered near the mission hall strangled.