GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 13 January 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

THE BUCKNOW MURDER

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press ’Association.)

Berlin, January 11

The stable hand arrested has partly confessed to the Bucknow murders. Three suspected accomplices are in custody.

THE SHAOKLETON CHARGES

London, January 10

R. R. Shaokleton was remanded at Bond Street for the alleged conversion of £IOOO in trust moneys belonging to Miss Josephine Browne. London, January 11.

Shaokleton has waived all extradition formalities. Mr Lobito Humphrey, who is prosecuting, stated that warrants had been issued for other offences.

A QUEENSLAND LOAN

London, January 11

The underwriting is proceeding for a two million Queensland loan,' at 4. per cent.

The Queensland loan has been issued on the understanding that the State will pay a full quarter’s interest on April 1 and a final instalment of 50 per cent, will be payable on April 10, a bonus of about 15 per cent.

LANDLORDING

London, January 11

James Gavin and Pat Kelly have been remanded q,t Ennis for grievously wounding MacNamara, a barrister, by a gun shot, at his residence in County Clare, over a land dispute.

THE BATTLESHIP MELBOURNE

London, January 11

The Australian battleship Melbourne will do her final trial at Birkenhead on January 17, sailing on January 18. She will remain at Plymouth until January 28.

A LINER ON FIRE

London, January 11

The Carthagenian took fire in raidocean, but the fire was extinguished by pumping water into the hold. The damage is estimated at £2OOO. There was no’panic.

SWINDLERS SENTENCED

London, January 11

Cameron and Collins, promoters of a wireless telephone stock company, swindled the public of a million dollars in stock-selling. They have been sent to gaol for seven and five years’ respectively.

EX-PRESIDENT CASTRO

New York, January 11

Tho Court has announced that it will not interfere with ex-President Castro’s claim to enter the United States until the immigration authorities have decided whether he has a right to remain.

A BLIZZARD AT HOME

London, January 12

A fierce blizzard has been experienced in Scotland, Wales and the North of England. The roads and passes are blocked with snow, and many wrecks are reported.

WOOL PACKS

London, January (10

Tlie committee on vegetable fibre in wool, in its report, recommends two paper-lined packs costing ninepence and fourpence respectively above the Greek and Jute bags. Messrs A. Acton Adams and de Little, wool growers’ representatives, in a minority report, say that no satisfactory solution’is possible unlos wool buyers agree to pay part of the extra cost. i the steel trust. (Received 8.0 a.mj Washington, January 12. Witnesses, speaking on the tariff question at hearings before the Democratic Committee, said the Steel Trust allowed independent companies to exist merely on sufferance. If the tariffs were lowered the Steel Trust would drive out all competition and ruin the independents.

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN’S MODESTY

Washington, January 12,

Captain Amundsen was the guest of the National Georgraphical Society and received a medal. He declaied that the exploit was not greater than those of other explorers who had braved the Antarctic. SINGAPORE DOCK CASE. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, January 12. Aird and Co. received £325,000 damages in the Singapore dock case.

A MINING FATALITY

St. Petersburg, January 12

A cage fell in the shaft of a mine at Ekaterinalav, and seven men were killed and five injured.

DROUGHT PRODUCES RIOTS

Madrid, January 12

The prolonged drought in Orense culminated in labour riots at Carballino. The rioters pillaged cellars and granaries. Troops have been dispatched.