GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

, THE COLONIAL TNSTi L’UTE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Chitted Press Association.) London, March 17. With a view to enlarging its opt ■ations the Colonial- Institute has decided to‘elect associates in toe United Kingdom at £1 per annum. THE SCOTT FUND. Thte Royal Geographical Society will present,'Lady Scott with a casket containing he I* husband’s gold medals. It has awarded the patron’s medal to ’ Idehtenant- Wilsn'n and a gold watch to Lieutenant Campbell. THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. f The'Bankruptcy Bill, expediting the procedure in bankruptcy, proposes to punish certain commercial offences. It allows creditors of a second bankruptcy to rank equally with thosj 'under the' first. A PAPAL DECREE. The Pope has. decreed a universal jubilee from Low Sunday to December Bth in Commcrhoration of Constantine’s granting' peace to the Church. THE PERSIAN REVOLT. Teheran, March 18. Thb Polorus has landed bluejackets nt Bunder Abbas to assist in driving off tile Baharloos. , TAXING THE MASSES. , 4 , Berlin, March IS. > It is reported that the Governmentj is levying war tax funds on trades Unions and Working Men’s Leagues. A WRECK FEARED. It feared' froth the discovery of wreckage that the steamer Petuhia, ore-laden, from Raravik for Etndcn, has -been lost with a crew of twentyeight. 1.

London, March 18. Mr > Asquith, replying to a deputation from the Trade Union Congress, •'» afiidthat he I ,was opposed to the nationalisation, of min.es.> The nationalisation ;ifi; Pl’ussia had proved unsatisfactory., The nationalisation of the railways in •.England would be' immediately 'followed by demands' from traders for better rates; and from workers for better 'wages a ml.shorter hours, absorbing'the, expected profits. r l he re- : 'cent trfemendous strain oh Parliament had accounted for the Government i marking time in' social reform. >' OIL FUEL ;FORFIRE ENGINES. / 1 ; ■!- u l '

London, March 18. llie ’London Fire Brigade has tested a (toticfel tb u tttilisd paraffin oil at 7d per gallon. fts motors averaged ( twenty' miles on a gallon of oil.

- SENS ATONAL CAR ACCIDENT

March 18.

A ©algary street .rear ; raxr off the, line at a speed of thirty miles an hour aiScf (&sttitnfed4t a : dum in the centre of the city.' ■ Thirty occupants werd injured. Flames from the car Pstovo destroyed the car. Snow piled on; to thb flames and* retarded tire outbreak sufficiently to allow the passengers to escape. MONEY MARKET. (Received 10.45 a.m.) ‘Lonflon, March iB. Letters of allottment have been forwarded in connection with the Auckland Drainage Board’s loan. The Financial Times says: The'New South. Wales, bonds are finding favour with,"those investors who were hit by the fall in consols and are desirous ■ of a’security 1 ' wbifeli hah no scope for fall, 'beCausC"they are redeemable in ; ;a defends.

BRAVE RESCUE wdftK. (Received 12.20 p.m.) London, March 19. A number of workmen were overcomfe,by gas in a sewer at Bayswater. 1 Firemen .with smoke helmets rescued two/ and bravely endeavoured to I‘CscUe a tl|ird',' but ‘failed. The rescuers w'ete' repeatedly liaulhd to’ the surface unconscious. TwO firCmCn' perished. NO FOUL PLAY. The Southampton police'- state ‘that there is nothing to support the : theory of foil! play in connection with the death of Frances Leslie, the American Ambassador; on the Oceanic.

The Waimato (Canterbury) District High' School recently lost the services bf a 'youth' who had begun teaching as a probationer, hut had been induced to accept ah opening in the Customs Department, as offering far better pay. The School Committee passed a resolution 'urging'that the salaries paid tc/‘probationers should be brought into line With' tho'Se' paid to beginners in other departments of the Civil 1 Service, and the resolution came before the’'South Canterbury Education Board at Timarii on Tiiesday. ; Members expressed ‘themselves in (sympathy with the recfbmmehdhtioh of the Committee, the' secretary remarking 1 that there was no sound reason why young men and women beginning life as teachers shotllcT he so poorly paid in comparison : with those entering the service of the State in other branches. It was stated that the youth from Waimate' wa& receiving £75 a year in the Customs Department/ hut he had had to begin teaching at £25. The Board resolved unanimously to forward the committee’s recommendation to the Education Department.