Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 28, 7 June 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

SMALLPOX AT APIA. [By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright] !|XPnitbu Press Association.J Suva, June 6. A Chinese cpolio ship ab Apia has had an outbreak or smallpox. There were six deaths. The natives are excited. A rigorous quarantine has been imposed. THE DUTCH EXHIBITION. Amsterdam,, June ,o. Prince Henry opened the exhibition. THE SCOTT FUND. London, June 6. • The Scott fund has reached £590,000, exclusive of £7OOO in Australia and £30,000 in Canada, PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION. The .Empire 'Parliamentary Association has completed its arrangements for the.Australian,visit. Special measures will bo taken to secure a representative • delegation of well-known members of the Government to accompany them..., They will leave via Vancojuyer on, July 16, and reach Sydney -.about September 2. Possibly a brief stay will be made in New Zealand en route.

"LIBERTY AND NECESSITY." (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, June 6. A copy of Benjamin Franklin's dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, which' was purchased in 1850 for half a crown, reached £IOOS at Sotheby's. BEET SUGAR. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, June 6. The Cobden Club has memorialised the Government to impose an excise duty on the beet sugar produced at the Cayley factory, Norfolk. ANTLMILJTARY PROPAGANDA, j Paris, June 6. The,.police searched eleven,militant revolutionaries' domiciles' and seized .'relating to an, anti-mil itarPEABf. OP SUFFRAGETTES. iV 1 1 i London,; June 6. Queen Alexandra has withdrawn from the Royal Academy? Slide's portrait "of* Kittg, Edward. This is attributed to fear that the suffragettes will damage at. A FIRE. AT MUDIE'S. London, June 6. Thirty, thousand books were burned at; Mudie's in, New Oxford Street. The firehjen.had a.narrow escape owing to the fall of a .staircase.