GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TWO CONVICTS SUICIDE

(Received 8.0 a.m.) Londoh, December 13. Sidney Banyan and Harry Southcliff, who were undergoing life sentences for murder, committed suicide in a cell at Maidstone. They worked as tinsmiths in a shop in the prison, and made and secreted a crude knife. They left farewell messages, Bunyau blaming the Home Secretary because he held nut no hope for the future.

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. The directors of the Bank of Australasia recommend the issue of 10,000 shares of £4O each, and a premium of £6O. Details published later in the ‘Daily News’ state that hope is entertained in some quarters that part of the reserve will be capitalised. It is unusual for a bank to indulge in a reserve capitalisation scheme, but it must bo admitted that the terms seem not to involve any big bonus to the existing shareholders. THe'n.S.W. 4 PER CENT. LOAN.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Underwriting is proceeding the three million New South Wales 4 per cent, loan at 99£. Tlio final instalment is payable on 24th February. THE INSURANCE ACT. In the doctors’ district ballot, so far, there is a five to one majority against insurance.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE

The foot and mouth disease has made its appearance at .Glasgow.

MUTINOUS PRISONERS

Twenty ringleaders in the mutiny of prisoners at the Isle of Wight have been removed to Portland Prison, Dartmoor, chained hand and foot. Scotland Yard organised a special department to operate the transference.

AN EXCITING BOLT,

London, December 6

While a company of the Grenadier Guards in Berlin was marching from the barracks to the exercise ground to-day the horses attached to the transport waggon belonging to the airship battalion took fright and bolted. The maddened animals dashed right in among the men, scattering them, everyhere.

Four of the guards were killed and three others were seriously injured.

QUARREL OVER A SEAT

London, December (1

The House of Commons was provided with a little diversion of an unusual kind to-day, when Sir William Byles, Radical member for North Salford, and one of the Labour members, Mr. C. Duncan, both attempted to secure the place formerly occupied by the late Sir Charles Dilke.

They had a quarrel over the possession of the seat, and for a time the business of the House was interrupted.

Finally, the Speaker, to whom the parties appealed, declared that Sir William Byles had a prior right to the seat in dispute. Mr. Duncan thereupon crowded into the next seat.