Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

A GIANT LINER. tBT EIEOTMO TBI/EGBAPH— Copyeight] [tJOTffBB PftKsa Association.! London, June 13. The steamer Imperator left Southampton on her maiden voyage with over four thousand passengers and a crew of eleven hundred. "BOBS" AND THE EIGHTY CLUB.. Lord Roberts has declined a complimentary banquet at the Eighty Club, which the Club proposed to substitute for the Colonel Seely debate. WESTRALIA'S PROSPECTS. At the Westralian banquet, Mr L. V. Harcourt announced the renewal of Mr Newton-Moore's term as AgentGeneral. Mr Harcourt said that the most) important'event for many years was the commencement of the transcontinental railway, which was destined to contribute to. unity, sentiment, ,ad communication, besides fulfilling Lord Kitchener's recommendation tor defence. '

PRACTICAL GRATITUDE. The Daily Mail's New York correspondent says that Thorncroft, a Melbourne, lawyer, visited Dr. S. Hmgley, of Wellsten, Ohio, and notified him that he was heir to £200,080 left by Charles Froelich. Hingley lent £l4O to Froelich when he was a farm lad a quarter of a century ago, which enabled him to enter an engineering college, A RUINED CAREER. Captain E. Craws'hay-Wtliiams, Liberal member for Leicester, has resigned, owing to his being co-respondent it the divorce case of Mr H. "W. C. Carr-Gomm, Liberal member for libtherhithe. ' • .(.Captain Crawshay-Williams was assistant private secretary to Mr Churchill in 1906-8, and parliamentary pnT ata Secretary to Mr Lloyd George in lWti. He married in 1908, and has two children.) MILLIONAIRE'S SUICIDE. , Geneva, June 13. A sensatjfHi has been caused by Etigone Maggi,, a .well-known millioniir4, and ,his wife committing .suicide. They had a splendid villa at Zurich. The servants' found the gas in the bedroom escaping and the-windows sealed.

A .RMlifex COLLISION. June 13. • The ieoond of • *ke Springs field express cra|h4el into the first secat New Yoi% on .the; HartfordNewhttteii railroad; Font-passengers are dead and many injured. The engine ploughed through the Pullman,' injuring thirty.

Spanish warsh ! i!p"#recked Gibralljai?,' June 13.

%he Spanish warship :GelieralPohcha has been wrecked at Thirty out of ninety of the; crew wer© killed by a fusillade from a thousand Moors assembled on the slopes.;:

. THE ARGENTINE. Buenos Aires, June 13. The Minister of Agriculture, in reply to the Ahglo-Argentine Meat Comi pahies, declined at present to interfere with industrial freedom. He promised to take the necessary steps in the event of fresh facts foreshadowing the creation of combinations disadvantageous to the country. DISSENSIONS IN MOROCCO. Tangier, June 12. Six thousand Kaybles are menacing Tetaan. Moors disguised as women have been caught stabbing the inhabitants. The consulates are specially, guarded, and troops have been dispatched. " . Tangier, June 13. Severe fighting has occurred in the environs of Centa. The Moors were repulsed after eight Spanish officers and a hundred men had been killed and wounded. AMERICAN YACHT DETAINED. Tokio, June 13. The American yacht Columbia was detained at Nagahama, because she •ntered a closed wort. THE ILL-FATED SUBMARINE. (Received '12.40 p.m.) London, June 13. Another member of the crew of the. submarine E 6 has succumbed. AMERICAN SHIPPING TRUST. (Received, 2.0 p.m.) Washington, June 13. In the House, the Committee on the Shipping Trust has reported that all the American coast lines had combined in an agreement to eliminate competition.