GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PORTUGAL’S NAVY. [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] [United Press Association, j London, May 7. A British syndicate of leading shipbuilders has obtained a contract for the first instalment of a Portuguese navy, involving one and a half millions. SCHINAS’ SUICIDE. Salonika, May 7. Schinas, while being taken to tho Magistrate’s room for interrogation, had his handcuffs removed. The officials’ attention was diverted for a moment, and ho dashed through a wiudown and fell thirty feet. RURAL LIFE AND LABOR (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, May 7. Mr Churchill, in a letter to Mr Nicholls, a candidate for Newmarket, ;aid that the regeneration of rural ilo and the elevation of the agricultural laborer were two new tasks for whicii the forces of Liberalism were gathering. NELSON’S OLD LETTERS. The Times publishes four lately-dis-nvored letters of Lord Nelson to R'dy Spencer, dating from 1797 to L 99, one belonging to tho period of is moral eclipse. OUTLAWRY IN THE PUNJAB. Delhi, May 7. A party of the South Wiziristan tiditia searching for Colonel Rainy’s issailant fired on six armed men for ’ef using to halt. A party of Nik’ankces, hearing the firing, volleyed. Eventually the militia routed "the memy, one Sepoy being killed and , ree wounf! ed. The enemy suffered ■hree wounded.

KING ALFONSO, OF SPAIN. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Paris, May 7. rung Alfonso, mi route from Spain, ■5 being guarded against anarchists. len Spaniards were arrested at in connection with the Mont J elier plot. King Alfonso was greeted with an ivation at Paris. THE MARCONI ENQUIRY. (Received 10 a.m.) London, May 7. Before the Marconi Committee, Min-' passbooks were examined, ney showed no dealings beyond the n. already testified to. Maro. protested against the enquiry nto matters which did not relate to .a contract.-' He said he never peculated in his company’s shares. BRITISH REVENUE FIGURES.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) London, May 7. The imports of Great Britain show n increase of £2,551,199, and the ex■orts £10,165,462, while re-exports how a decrease of £25,338. t A FAMOUS CASE. (Received 11.0 a.m.) London, May 7. The judge suggested the possibility -it W. R. Lidderdale had been kidipped, and the case has been adnmied'for further enquiries regard- \% Miss Vining’e yacht. [Mr Lidderdale, a bank manager,

ns about to be married, but suddenly iisappeared, and it was alleged that ic had died on board the yacht of an . Id friend, named Miss Lining. The ividcnce of this was not conclusive, nd hitherto the court has refused to permit his death to be assumed.]