MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 53, 4 March 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

: ;ibj Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Berlin, March 2. ( The Kaiser at WilheJmshaven witj3, nessed the launch of the euperdreadnought, the Koenig, and declared that ? such battleships were the greatest need of the present serious hour. t Dei Id, March 2. 1, One hundred and thirty-seven thou- • sand rupees have been subscribed as '* a thank-offering for the Viceroy’s pub--1 lie reappearance. It is expected that • 50,000 will also be collected for a statue of Lord Hardinge. ! , Pekin, March 2. A daughter of Kiantse, Magistrate, i has offered herself as a bride in a lottery of 30,000 four-shilling tickets 1 to relieve the famine stricken district of Wenchau. London, March 2. I Except for two small parcels specially held the whole of the underwriters’ I holdings of the New Zealand loan will ‘be absorbed within a fortnight. [ The Admiralty has contracted for the construction of a third graving dock at Forsyth. The first batch of Boy Scout emigrants for Victoria sailed by the Marathon. Helsingfors, March 2. One hundred and fifty fishermen are adrift on an ice floe. Assistance has been sent. / London, March 2. Arthur Newton, a well known solicitor, and Berkeley Bennett, an undischarged bankrupt, of Half Moon street have been remanded at Bow Street on a charge of defrauding Hans Thosch of £23,000. ,Defendants declared that the prosecution arose out of a civil judgment. The prosecutor | had offered to compromise, Newton j has been bailed out. Berlin, March 2. The Tageblatt, refer ring to other ! newspaper reports of the extra mill- | tary vote, asserts that forty-eight mil- j lion sterling will be spread over four I years. I t Paris, March 2. ! The newspapers announce that at | the Kaiser’s instance ,M. Delcassc | will meet him in Berlin, cn route to j St. Petersburg. v Capetown, March 2. General Botha, speaking in the House, said that they should approach I the Imperial Government to allow all protectorates to* come under the Union. Then self-government to large areas could be granted to the natives. Capetown, March 2. The Hon. G. W. Sauer, in the Assembly, announced a Bill forbidding i natives to sell or buy land, pending the report of the Commission regarding the purchase or lease of land, and suggesting areas within which only natives or Europeans should hold land. Meanwhile the Government would take power to expropriate the land interests of either Europeans or natives. Pekin, March 2. Serious anxiety is felt here and at Tokio over Russian activity in Mongolia. Mongolian agents are distributing large supplies of arms at Urga. The Russians are erecting barracks at Kaikta to accommodate four divisions. London, March 2. The Indian Government’s surplus amounts to £3,361,900. Opium revenue lias decreased by £3,616,600. The budget provides £563,700 for education, twelve/ millions for railways. The birthrate in England and Wales for 1912 was 23.8 and the death rate 13.3. Both figures constitute a record. St. Petersburg, March 2. Thirty steamers ale frozen in the G'ulf of Riga, an(d icebreakers are i being sent there. Paris, March 2. A wave of patriotism is now being experienced. The press and public have accepted the necessity of three years’ service, and many time-expired men are volunteering for the new term, especially cavalry men. Berlin, March 2. The North German Gazette semi-offi-cially states that it is intended to cover the initial military expenditure by a single levy on rich men. If the Reichstag approves, the fortune tax will obviate the loan which the Government urge should lie passed by Whitsuntide of fifty million sterling, eleven million of which will ho spent in each of four years, and 7-J- million spent now on barracks on the East Coast. The Government propose to abolish royalties in exemption taxation. London, March 2. By an explosion at a parcels office on the south-western station at Devonport, William Gay, a clerk, was seriously injured, and the office wrecked. A portion of a tin was found. Suffragettes are suspected. A new locomotive dashed into an electric train at Monor station, New-castle-on-Tyne, telescoping the last j carriages and injuring twenty-five people. Melbourne, March 2. [ The Australian Naval College at i Geelong has been officially opened by I Lord Denman. Mr Fisher said that j he hoped New Zealand would send i her boys, the same as she was already | sending them to the military college. Sydney, March 3. I The Government is trying the Creed I Bille telegraph system, which perfor- ! ates and prints message's up to 120 j words a minute. Launceston, March 3. j The gunboat Torch went agrnir.a! i on entering the Tamar river, and two j attempts to tow her off' failed. >