GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

i. By JUleotuio Telegraph—Copyright 1 t United Press association,] London, October 80. The Daily Graphic states that in view of the Jving’s dissatisfaction with the recent memoirs of King Edward he has authorised the publication of a biography under Lord KnoyllVs supervision. It is suggested that Lord Rosebery should be the author. It will probably only deal with events prior to the accession. The battleship Orion was leaving Porstmouth at high tide when her huge displacement caused the sea to invade the streets to a depth of several feet near the harbor, entrance, N Children were removed from school, in boats. ■

The newspaper Scotsman says that developments in connection with the Duke of Sutherland’s offer are awaited with interest. The cry for land in Sutherlandshire is incessant, and experts declare that the Duke’s deer country is unfertile and will not be remunerative under ny system of cultivation.

Concession smadojhy the Royal Mail Line' have resulted ,in. a settlement of the engineers* strike. • A hundred school teachers in Herefordshire have struck for higher, pay and tendered their resignations.

Sir George Kekewich, addressing the National League for clean government, said that bribery had become a part i)f the Parlimentary system and public life. The Corrupt Practices Act was evaded, and there was a market for honors, £SOOO for a knighthood, 625,000 for a baronetcy and £60,000 for a peerage being the recognised prices.

The Oxford and Cambridge Divinity professors’ examiners memoralised the Archbishop of Canterbury, suggesting that a third question be addresed to deacons at ordination and should read : “Do you believe in the Holy Scriptures as given by the inspiration of God?” The signatories point out that men capable of good service, are deterred from offering themselves for ordination because they are unable to give an affirmative answer to the existing formulary.

King Edward’s Horse banquetted Col. Robin on the eve of his return to New Zealand. They paid a tribute to bis efforts to secure the New Zealand Government’s recognition of the regiment as an important Empire link. Delhi, October 30. the financial panic in Western India continues. The crisis is due to the peculiar methods of sharedealing on the Bombay Exchange, where the price of certain shares was kept at an artificial level by the broker Jehanghir Dalai. The latter was unable to meet the efforts of the combination against him, and failed for two and a-hall million rupees. Many brokers were ruined. Azize Brahim, the premier pearl merchant, filed for a million rupees. Several cotton and grain merchants at Karoohi failed for large sums. St. Petersburg, October 30. The evidence of medical exports differed on essential points as to whether the prime objects of the murder were torture or the obtaining of a* much of Tushinsky's blood as possible. All agreed that there were at least two murderers who had no indication of a knowledge of anatomy.