GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A FREE BREAKFAST TABLE. Electric Telegraph.—Copyngn t (United Press Association.) Rio do Janiero, February 28. The Government has authorised the I Finance Minister to reduce or aboli ish tlie duties on imported necessaries. JAPANESE POLITICS. Tokio, February 28. The Diet lias resumed its sittings. Yamamoto has reintroduced the Budget, which promises to lighten taxation. MINING DIVIDENDS. Capetown, February 28. J The mining industry dividends for 1912 totalled £11,250,030. THE ESPIONAGE CHARGE. (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, February 28. Claire fall into the police trap ar- ! ranged with the consent of the naval authorities of the chance made to allow him to acquire temporary possession of a torpedo report. A BIG FIRE. Madrid, February 28. I A great fire at San Sebastian start- ! ed in a theatre which the audience j had just left. It destroyed the municipal library, Museum, Academy of Music, and several houses. | EDITOR AND A LIBEL CHARGE. ! Cecil Chesterton, editor of the New : Witness, has been committed for i trial on the charge of libel, bail for : £SOO being allowed. THE MOTOR BANDITS’ CASE. Paris, February 28. A warder passing a cell on an observation trip heard a sound of choking and found Carouy under the bedj clothes chewing crystals which proved |to he cyanide of potassium. Ho was [ dead in a few minutes. Callemin .will write a detailed account of tho Cabby murder. ■Several newspapers expect a revision of Dieudonne’s sentence. TWO DIVERS DROWNED. Adelaide, Febrn ary 28. Two men, named Stephenson and Putres, have been drowned. They were engaged in diving work at the jetty extension at Wallaroo. HEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. \ Sydney, February 28. Sweltering heat continues, and rain is urgently wanted. One of the benefits of the drought is that the rabbits in some districts have greatly decreased. MEXICO. (Received 11.40 a.m.) Mexico City, February -28. Zapata had decided to co-operate with President Huerta to restorei peace. j