GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 7 April 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

HISTORICAL CONFERENCE-. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.; London, April 5. Sir George Reid presided, over the colonial section of the Historical Conference. He said that colonial history was the history of human expansion in its most beneficent form. Many of the Old World’s failures were being splendidly redressed in the new lands. FIRE AT MEAT WORKS. Buenos Ayres, April 5. Although the export of mutton by the Blanca Company continues, the export of chilled beef has been suspended. The loss by the burning of the building is £.80,000; meat, £40,000. It was the old meat works which were destroyed; the new works .are not affected. LOANS FOR DOMINIONS. London, April 5. The underwriters take 94. per cent of the South African loan. The city of Hobart is issuing a loan of £250,000 at 4-J- per cent. It is issued at £IOO 10s. MR. HOLMAN IN ENGLAND. London, April 5. Mr Holman is dining with Lord eauchamp. to-night. He will spend die week-end with the Earl of Har•owby, and visit Oxford University on Monday. THE GIBRALTAR SCANDAL. London, April 6. General Hunter, Governor of Gibaltar, has been granted three months’ cave of absence, to enable consideraion to be given to the local represenations that were made in last .egarding his conduct in publicly reacting on the character of the townspeople. SUICIDE IN PRISON. Paris, April 6. Lacombe committed suicide in the santa prison. (Received 8.5 a.m.)

Lacombe, while exercising in the /ard, took advantage of the warder’s nattention and scaled the railing, rora where he was enabled to reach die roof. He assailed his pursuers with tiles. Lacombe’s lawyer was Hiramoned in an endeavour to persuide him to surrender. When the fire u-igade arrived Lacombe shook i the ‘awyer’s hand and threw himself headlong, smashing'his skulL :hi (Received 9.6 a..m.) uj -y Before committing-suicide, Lacombe kept his pursuers-, jat .bay for/two hours. Many prisoners witnessed the tragedy from their cell windows, ind shouted “Vive Lacombe; Vive Anarchy!” when Lacombe jumped. A QUESTION OF TAXATION.-v, ; .. is ji ;i p 'i—- *c; < ufdoii ■ London, April 5. The Auditor-General?S’report on the question of the legality of (phanaellor’s rebate of £IOO in assessing he income tax on the salaries of nemhers of Parliament; states that le failed to obtain a reply- from the Treasury as to whether a legal opinion was obtained. ; I LYNCHING A NEGRO. . New York, April 5. At Mondak, Montana, a big crowd lynched a negro named Collins, for shooting Sheriff Courtney and wounding Deputy-Sheriff Burmaster while arresting him for beating his wife and another negro. The crowd riddled kollins with bullets and hung him to a pole. They tried to cremate the /)dy. SPEECH BY LORD CREWE. London, April 5. Lord Crewe, speaking at the Eighty ’lub banquet, said the Government intended to introduce joint action of the existing, authorities in order to ’orm a co-ordinated educational sys-

tem. The age for leaving school would be at least fourteen. The continuance of the half-time system was undesirable, though necessary for some industries. It was proposed to register all secondary schools and introduce public inspection and a standard of efficiency in English education. They required something in the nature of i Foods and Drugs Bill for the puroose of preventing schools providing unwholesome mental nutriment. The new system would increase the cost rreatly. As it was impossible to get more money from the rates, it must be borne by the tax-payers. LONG-WINDED LADY LITIGANT. London, April 5. Miss Hageby, the well-known antivivisectionist, is suing Dr Saleeloy and the Pall Mall Gazette for libel, in accusing her of conducting a campaign of falsehood. Miss Hageby, who is conducting her own case, has already spoken for eighteen hours.