GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 27, 31 January 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) •United Press [Association.) London, January 29. Williams, who was convicted of tho murder of Inspector Walls, and Hopwood, murderer of Florence Dudley, have been hanged. The Taxi-cab Drivers’ Union is making a levy of 4s daily on owners whose drivers are continuing work. Lord Skerrington, at the Edinburgh Court sessions, ruled that magistrates were not empowered to prohibit public meetings in the streets. Brussels, January 29. Several white slave traders have been arrested. They exported girls to the South American republics. St. Petersburg, January 29. A dynamite explosion destroyed the copper works at Elisabethpol. Six were killed. London, January, 29. Moorhouse, the aviator, was fined £2O for criminal negligence while motoring. He killed a farm labourer. There are fifteen cases of smallpox in Sussex. The cruiser Melbourne has sailed. Arana has cabled to the PuturnaycT committee that he is coming to give evidence. New York, January 29. The opponents of the wool schedule point out that the country is actually taxed 8s 9d per head of the population yearly, to maintain the wool industry in its present state of prosperity. The present combined al valorem and specific duties are equal, according to Democratic contentions, to 128 per cent. This is a wholly unnecessary figure. The Democrats hope to reduce the tariff approximately to a revenue percentage only. Paris, January 29. Six youths, armed with revolvers and daggers, held up a tramcar and stole the takings. A sharp fight ensued with the officials and gendarmes, during which the youths fired at the tram. Four were arrested. Tokio, January 29. Wheeler, a British manufacturer, was arrested and put in gaol at Yokohama. No charge was preferred against him and bail and legal advice were refused. The Consul-General has intervened. Wheeler represented Genz, Wheeler and Co., which obtained so many orders for knitting machines that deliveries were behind-hand. The firm believes this fact was the cause of the trouble and opine that the authorities arc guilty of high-handed procedure. London, January 29. Mr Justice Neville gave a judgment restraining the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation from expelling Joseph Parr, and declared that political levies were illegal. Mr G. Roberts, M.P., presiding at the conference of the Labour Party at Lambeth, criticised Canada’s offer of three battleships, which would greatly add to Britain’s annual expenditure. If Mr Churchill’s assurances were accepted, that the defensive forces wore sufficient, the three vessels must be in excess of requirements. Moreover the giving of the colonics representation on the Defence Committee was fraught with far-reach-ing consequences, and must be subjected to searching inquiry. A British company with a capital of £1,000,000, privately subscribed, has been formed to exploit merchant vessels with oil engines. Contracts for several vessels of 6000 tons have been placed with Swan, Hunter, Richardson and Co., and Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. They will have engines of British design. The Congregation at Oxford, which recently removed the restriction that degrees in divinity could be granted only to members of the Church of England, has amended the clause in the direction of excluding non-Christian religions. Berlin, January 29. The Postmaster-General, in the Reichstag, stated that he contemplated establishing wireless connection with East Africa, the South Sea colonies, and Japan. London, January 30. Arrangements Jiave been concluded by which the Peninsula and Orient

Company will represent the Cunard Company’s interests in India, the Far East and Australia, and the Cunard Company will represent the Peninsula Company’s interests in the United States and Canada. These arrangements are supposed to have originated the unfounded amalgamation rumours. London, January 30.

Owners of proprietary medicines and foods formed a deputation to Mr Newton Moore, Agent-General for ' West Australia, respecting the Health Act. They asserted that if the regulations regarding the disclosure of formulae were not modified the trade with Western Australia would cease entirely. The Wine and Spirit Association is also protesting re the additions allowed to wine. They suggest that the State should follow Canada’s example and allow the entry of wines which meet the legal requirements in places where they are produced. The whisky distillers have also farmed a deputation to Mr Newton Moore.