Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

AN. ERRING WIFE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Presa Association.) London, February 4. Colonel Sir W. Manning, Governor of Jamaica, has divorced his wife. He left for Nyassaland in 1910 on account of his health. When he returned to England he found that his wife had eloped with Captain Llewellyn, his aide de camp in Nyassaland, while he was absent on leave. AMBER FRAUDS. Berlin, February 4. Seven amber dealers have been charged with defrauding the Prussian Treasury of £50,000. Amber is a State monopoly. BANKRUPTED BY WAR. Vienna, February 4. Three dressmaking firms have gone bankrupt, with liabilities of £883,000, owing to stagnation over the war. MEXICAN REBEL OUTRAGE. Mexico City, February 4. The rebels attacked a train and killed and mutilated twenty-five Federal soldiers. The Government is apparently powerless to deal with the Situation. The United States is still holding back, fearing to provoke a general rising against Americans if they intervene. The rebels are equally as strong as the Federals. The .latter are unable to suppress the insurrection. , AGRICULTURAL WAGES. London, February 4. The Chronicle denies that Mr Lloyd George proposes to deal with agricultural wages on a national basis. It adds that the district or county wages boards will meet local conditions. The Daily News states that a setoff to the minimum wage would be a fair rent, with fixity of tenure for the farmer; also compensation for disturbance, with allowance for improvements. NEW ZEALAND’S LOANS. London, February 4. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, in a long letter to the Times, details the excellent returns of New' Zealand’s loahs, which are employed in reproducing investments. 1,- a ■ OCEAN ISLAND GUANO. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, February 4. Lord Harcourt, in the House of Commons, said the royalty on the Pacific Phosphate Co.’s guano from Ocean Island would be one shilling instead of sixpence per ton. CHINA’S FINANCE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) Peking, February 4. The Six Powers have arranged a twenty-five million loan at 5.) per cent, issued at 96). China gives 7) per cent, for seven million Treasury bills before April. KILLING BY BOMB. (Received 1.40 p.m.) ' New York, February 4. John Paul Farrell, janitor, was arrested on a cYiarge or sending bombs through the mails and killing a man and women with whom he lodged. He confessed to a long series of murders, all consummated by means of bombs. He aleb killed his daughter with a bomb in 1912, and attempted to kill Judge Rosalsky because he sentenced a criminal who was friendly towards Farrell. , Pekin, February 4. Counter revolutionists attempted the life of Clung, Governor of Foo Chow, by bomb-throwing, but killed 30 people. Governor Clung escaped.