GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 18 June 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

{Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright] ilUnmeo Press Association. 3 Rome, c<iao 16.

King Emmanuel lias released the Sicilian brigand chief, Guiseppe Tervara, who has been imprisoned at. Ancona.for half a. century. Paris, June 16.

The vital statistics for 1912 are as follows:—Birth 7i5,0Q0, deaths 690,000. "■ The Times mentions among the causes of the decrease in British emigration to Australia, Canada's keener competition, also that after Australia's ■boom in 1911-12 there were fewer building operations undertaken m Melbourne and Sydney, as a result of the financial stringency arriving out of the Balkan situation, and further, to the action of certain Stater, in temporarily reducing facilities in the shape of assisted passages to emi-| grants

New York, June 16,

At Chicago five deaths occurred, due to V heat wave. The temperature was 98, with great humidity. Free ice is proposed to be furnished to the poor. The heat wave was experienced at Philadelphia. Six deaths are recorded from "heat. The temperature was 98 in Indiana, heating all records. Several deaths have occurred in Chicago. The temperature was 99, con-j stituting a record. There were many j prostrations

London, June 17

Mr Watt was farewelled by tho Empire Parliamentary Association. Ho thanked Britishers through the press for their hospitality, and outlined the advantages Australia offers to emigrantsl. They.wanted men and women for the land. They had a sufficiency of city-<3wellers. He believed that Imperial trade could develop without violating the fiscal views of anyone. He hqped that the English papers would devote greater attention to Australian affairs.

. A flax and hemp society has been formed to promote the revival of flaxgrowing. Two areas at Selby and Yeovie have been planted. (Received 10 a.m.) . London, June 17.

A.sudden inrush* of water occurred at the Carrhouse colliery, Rotheritam. Eight were drowned and several Others had exciting escapes..

(Received 10.5 a.m.) Berlin, June 17

The National jubilee subscriptions for missions in the,German colonies, amounting to £190,000 nave' been handed to the Emperor; £125,000 goes to the Protestant missions and the balance to the Catholics. ~._. (Received '1ti.26 a.m.) ; London, June 17.

The earthquake in Bulgaria killed upwards of ( ||)o, ) .at,-,Tirno,vo (j an.d^tl ? e neighbouring towns. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Port An Prince, June 17.

A serious epidemic of bubonic plague is prevailing, scores of people dying. The Government, has surrounded tlie town with a cordon of troops, preventing infection.

New York, June 17

Lit the celebration of Bunker's Hill victory at Boston, Mr Theodore ;Roosevelt favored a big navy,,,. He said .the "United States would never consent to arbitration on questions of national honor 'or vital national interest. "Uncle Sam will never consent to arbitrate on any slap in the face, and in, ;a last resort the navy is the Uncle Sam punch."

New York, June 17

Dr. Friedmann returned to Germany. ' The'Board of Health lias ordered the Friedmann . institute established here to be closed. Montreal medicos are particularly denunciatory. Constantinople, June 17.

The police unearthed a widespread conspiracy for overthrowing vernment by means of assassinations. Thirty persons have been arrested, these forming nine gangs who were appointed to murder the Young Turks' leaders.

(Received 12.55 p.m.) ' London, June 17

James, a night porter at Berkeley Hotel, has been charged' with "complicity in the robbery from the hotel. Lionel Henderson, educated at Harrow, and a captain in Paget's Horse, South Africa, was charged at Liverthe rojal enclosures at Aintree under false pretences. He was remanded without bail.

■ Mr Crawshay Williams, who resigned his seat in Parliament owing to divorce proceedings, publishes a remarkable letter in the Leicester Mail. In reply to criticisms accusing him of hyprocisy, and denouncing him as a politician who inveighed against monopolists and white slaverers while he interfered with another man's wife, Williams declares that a politician is only concerned with national rectitude, and resents the idea that private morality in certain cases should affect a man's public capacity. Lisbon, June 17.

A mob of carbonados stormed a charity performance organised by the aristocracy and battered the theatre doors. The police defended, using swords. A diplomatist present sent a request for protection to the civil governor, and troops were sent who disponed the carbonados.