GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 13 June 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.ra.) ? ,

The Times says that owing to the falling-off in -Australian emigration the States have approached the shipping companies to amend the three years contract because the additional accommodation is now not wanted. The decrease in emigration is attributed to the high wages among skilled laborers in Britain.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, June 12.

Owing to a deficiency of £70,000, the London Missionary Society has reduced the annual expenditure by £15,000, withdrawing certain portions of the mission from fields in Asia, Africa, New Guinea, and the South Seas.

BOMB THROWING. (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, June 12. A bomb which was thrown at a train at Runcorr exploded in the street, and a girl had a narrow escape.

NOVELIST AWARDED DAMAGES IN LIBEL ACTION. PetC Ridge, the novelist recovered £l5O damages for libel from an English illustrated magazine for publishing an inferior story by Gubbins, a grocers assistant, who used Pett Ridge’s name. ' DISTURBANCE IN A THEATRE. Lisbon, June 12. During a performance in aid of political prisoners, a group of men entered the theatre and fired revolvers. Troops surrounded the building and dispersed the disturbed audience, which included many foreign diplomats. A GERMAN DEFENCE BILL. The Conservatives and centre revolutionary parties will oppose the third reading of the Defence Bill until an acceptable compromise has been reached regarding the financial proposals.

PRIVY COUNCIL CASE. (Received 11 a.m). London, June 12. Th Privy Council heard the case, the Kauri Timber Company versus the Commissioner of Taxes. Judgment was reserved. Respondent was not called. A USELESS PROTEST. The National Peace Congress at Leeds carried a resolution protesting against compulsory service in New Zealand. BOXING CONTEST. Carpentier and Wells have signed articles to fight in November, probably in London for £SOO l aside, and the best purse offered. SUEZ CANAL TRADE. The Suez Canal returns for 1912 include the United Kingdom, 3335 vessels, with 12,847,621 tonnage, being sixty per cent; Germany, 698 vessels, 3,025,415 tonnage, fifteen per cent; Holland, six per cent; Austria and France four per cent.

MR THEODORE ROOSEVELT. . New York, June 12. Mr Roosevelt is planning-a lecturing tour through the Argentine. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Vancouver, June 12. The British Columbia Agricultural Commissioner is arranging a visit to Australia and England in connection with the development of the agriculture of . the province. BARGE BLOWN UP. New York, June 12. An explosion of boilers on a steam barge at Racine, Wisconsin, killed seven and injured five. The explosion tore the vessel to pieces, and fire burned her to the water’s edge. Twenty-five stevedores had left a few moment’s before. SALE OF PACIFIC ISLANDS. London, June 12. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says that the French Colonial Office discovered that islands in the Pacific are being filched from a native named Te Aroa, of Tahiti, Local surveyors for France sold three to an English company. The Government is now suing the company to restore them.