GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A GARIBALDI BANQUET. [By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] [United Press Association.J London, September 22. Of 800 English volunteers to the Garibaklian movement, only a dozen survive. Six participated in the annual banquet in London. Prince Borghese was the chief speaker. King Emmanuel sent his greetings.

HISTORIC RECORDS DESTROYED. Romo, September 2‘2. A fire destroyed the celebrated Mth century pharmacy attached to the Franciscan Monastery at Ragusa, with precious vases for the preservation ol herbs. SAD FATE OF FOUR BRIDES.

Budapesth, September 22.

Four would-be brides, while picking flowers to decorate tne clmrcfl at Bngyvoirad, were overtaken by a thunderstorm. They took refuge in a grotto and were struck by lightning. Their sweethearts discovered the bodies' in the debris.

SOCIALIST COXGRKSS. Berlin, September 22. Tlic Socialist Congress at Jena has closed. The dominant keynote was not revolutionists, hilt revisionist. The Moderate 'section has greatly strengthened the belief in the possibility ol attaining the requisite reforms by constitutional Parliamentary action.

GROCERS’. EXHIBITION. London, September 22. The Daily Chronicle, dealing with the Grocery Exhibition, emphasises that the exhibits from the overseas. Dominions, especially Australia, are becoming an increasingly important part of the exhibition.

THE ECHO OF A CRIME. Berlin, September 22. The Public Prosecutor at Eldherfeici has reopened an enquiry into the case of Frau Hamm, w ho was sentenc hd in 1908 to a long term of imprisonment for the murder of her husband, a peasant farmer. The conviction was based on the report of a police commissary at Berlin, who has since Ihft the service and whose methods the authorities severely criticised. GERMANY'S GENEROFS GRANT. I -

Berlin, September 22. The Government lias granted £ls, 000 to the Olympic Committee.

A HANDSOME DONATION

(Received 12.20 p.m.) London, September 22

The firm of Lever Bros,, of Sunlight Soap fame, has given £IO,OOC per annum to the Bolton Grammai School and Girls' High Schols, which have been amalgamated.

SUGAR FIGURES. (Received 12.15 p.m.) London, September 22. Professor Licht estimates that the sugar production has increased 2,548,000. There is a surplus of 2,031,000.