GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A FATAL CAPSIZE. ;Ly Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I United Press Association^ New York, June 23. The survey boat Iseav?r capsi/fd in a storm. Ni.ie engineers weiv •drowned. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Ottawa, dune 23. A fire at Montreal ' destroyed a block of buildings, including a sash and blind factory. Four firemen were killed and three injured. HENLEY REGATTA. London, June 23. The entries for the Henley Regatta institutes a record. Australia, Canada, and France are represented in the Grand Challenge, and Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Italy in the Diamond Sculls. A PEACE CENTENARY. A committee, including Lords Grey, Plymouth, Rothschild and Cowdray, are appealing for funds to celebrate a hundred years' peace. Similar movements are being initiated in Canada and the United States. HONORING WASHINGTON. A British committee proposes to place a memorial in Westminster Ab j bey and to purchase Sulgrase Manor, the ancestral home of the Washington family, and to found a professorship of Anglo-American ' history, the whole costing £60,000. STRENUOUS DEMOCRACY. Copenhagen, June 23. The new Radical Government reruses to wear uniforms or accept the title of Excellency. The wife of Prei nier Zahle, who is official parliament. ary shorthand writer earning £165 an aually, will continue her work. DISORDER IN SPAIN. Barcelona, June 23. A crowd demonstrating against the Moroccan war, raised revolutionary •ries. The gendarmes charged, wounding thirty. Twenty-one were arrested.

The disorders were renewed on Sun Jay, when the police fired oji the mob. riddling a tram-car with bullets.

DUEL TO THE DEATH

Paris, June 23

Two Apache suitors, each the head of a band, fought a duel to decide the possession of a girl. Both the lovers were killed. One received two bullets and five stabs, and the other three bullets in the head. Three other Apaches were seriously wounded.

THE BEEF TRUST.

London, June 23

The leading South American shipping companies are uniting to fight the American Beef Trust. The schema includes building a fleet suitable for the Panama Canal, each boat to bo 150 feet long and of unusually narrow beam. They will be utilised to collect carcases at various centres, and the meat will be shipped from Colon in a fleet extensive enough to give daily sailings. Harland's Royal Mail line, the Nelson line, and the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. are interested TENANT FARMERS. Lord Lansdowne, speaking at Matlook, advocated a great increase in tenant farmers. The Government, he said, should advance the whole of the purchase money at a low rate of interest. He advocated agricultural reform without bursting up the existing system, and condemned the fixing of a minimum wage. Britain produced only one-fifth of the wheat required, and she should produce half He advocated co-operative production by grouping farms.