GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

-A STEAMER LAUNCHED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Ass jc a ray. ■ London, June 19. The New Zealand Shipping Com-j pany’s Ngakuta has been launched at Middlesborough. A NEW ZEALAND DRAMATIST. “Uncle Bill,” a one-act play by, Miss Rose Mary Rees, the young j Gisborne authoress and playwright, 1 was well received at the Globe Thea-; tre. THE ALIEN LAW. Washington, June 20. In order to check the admission of Hindus and Malays from the Philippines to the Pacific Coast, the immigration regulations have been modified, empowering officers to reject aliens coming from insular possessions unless able to show that they are not members of any excluded class or likely to become a public charge. Thousands of Hindus hitherto gained admission to the United States without difficulty, once they had been admitted to the Philippines.

BRUTAL NEGRO HANGED

New York, June 20

At Hot Springs, Arkansas, a negro fatally assaulted a little girl. The mob captured and hanged him to a telegraph pole at a street corner.