GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 69, 29 March 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) | (United Press Association.) i Ottawa, March 28. The House of Commons has passed the first reading of a Bill to apply the ordinary immigration laws to Japanese immigrants. Hitherto Japanese immigration has been regulated entirely from Tokio.

Sydney, March 29. The underwriters have received a cable stating that the Norwegian steamer, Lektcr, bound from Baltimore to Australia, is ashore on the Dyer Islands, Cape Colony, and is expected to become a total loss. Received 9.0 a.m.) London, March 28. Sir Rufus Isaacs hotly accused the Marconi Committee of trying him, and protested vehemently against the lies and fabrications which had been published, Hp produced Mr Asquith’s letters of August 15, 1912, counselling him not, to. notice the scurrilous rubbish published by little-known papers, Mr Samuel (Postmaster-General), in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, admitted that he. knew in August last that Sir Isaacs and Mr Lloyd George held American Marconi shares. (Received 10.50 a.m.) New York, March 28. Richmond Lloyd and Allen Claude, who shot Judge Massie in Hilleville Courthouse, in March, 1912, have been executed.

Admirers of Claude presented him with a gold medal because he defended bis father when the shooting began. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, March 28.

Commenting On the "mission of Mr Watt (Victorian Premier), the Financial Times states-that, though acting primarily for Victoria, Mr Watt is engaged inflating business which must redound to the benefit of the whole of Australia. Perhaps he .should be considered an informal envoy of the whole of the States. His survey of the Victorian-finance shoivs that the States are as sound as a bell. Mr Watt rang out, its changes with a firm and confident hand.-

Explpsives works at Petsea blew up, and three persona w-ere killed. Rome, -March 28.

At a workmen’s ball at Milan, two groups of youths fought with knives over three girls. Twenty were wpundcd, two fatally. London, March 28.

A memorial service was held at Cheltenham College on the anniversary of Scott’s and Wilson’s deaths in the Antarctic.

Cardinal ■ Bourne in the Nineteenth Century favours national training for youths and military efficiency./ •The Royal- Geographical Society’s, treasures,, valued at a million, j have been transferred to new headquarters at Kensington. > The; Hocken collec-; thom were .also committed.