GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

j AMERICAN POLITICS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Washington, February 25. If necessary, an extra session oL Congress will he called on April 1 to deal with the tariff on wool. Currency reform will also be considered. 1 GIBRALTAR’S CITIZENS EXERCISED. Gibraltar, February 25. Leading citizens arc memorialising and deputationising Viscount Harconrt over Governor Hunter s recent speech, 1 wherein he accused members of the Chamber of Commerce of thinking only of themselves, saying that juries were notoriously unjust and that the, town was like an Augean stable. DOWAGER-EMPRESS’S LAMENT j Pekin, February 25. The Dowager Empress’s dying words were: “I and my boy are alone in the world. i must leave him. How shall my spirit find rest in the next world? What face shall 1 possess j when I. rejoin my ancestors? The last Empress mined the dynasty.” A semi-official statement emphasises with the late Emperor and the Dowager were of unblemished character, and were not responsible for the down-! fall of the dynasty.

IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, February 25. The New South Wales Immigration Department is arranging to send small batches of widows of the artisan class with one child, also teashop waitresses, if they are prepared to accept domestic service. BURIED TREASURE. The Chronicle states that six jars full of gold coins, and two jars of jewels were found buried at Haslemere. A document written in Latin states that fifty jars were buried. WHOLESALE MURDER. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Rome, February 25. Frasca, a landowner at Alatri, disappeared after murdering his wife, father-in-law, and three other relatives. COOLIES AND THE POLICE. Calcutta, February 25. The check to the police by Naga tribesmen as cabled was due to the Nagas rushing the luggage coolies, who were in fear of the force. The coolies became panicstricken, dropped their loads, and clung to the Sepoys, many of whom were thus unable to fire. Reinforcements have been sent.

CRYSTAL PALACE. (Received 9.25 a.m.) London, February 25. A supplementary report shows further widespread support to a scheme to secure the Crystal Palace as Empire Grounds. AX EARTHQUAKE. Rome, February 25. There was an earthquake shock of local origin at Messina and Reggio. MARI LG ART Z KARAMEA COLLISION. Lodon, February 25. The Admiralty Court found that the German steamer Mariegartz was blame worthy in the Karamea collision in August Ivst.

INDIAN MONEY MARKET. (Received 10.55 a.m.) Delhi, February 25. The Government refuses to lend money to the hankers upon Indian securities to relieve the money market, owing to the lockup of the opium i;i the Chinese warehouses. JOUR X ALT ST ! Ml’R 1 SON El) FOR LIBEL. (Received 10.15 a.m.) Johannesburg, February 25. George Stanley, journalist, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment! with hard labor for libelling J. B. Robinson.