GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 78, 2 December 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

THE STOLEN PEARLS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] IME8 —Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, December 1. The original value of the stolen pearl necklace was £IIS,UOU. It is considered 10 be enormously increased by the sensational trial. .Many inquiries are reaching the owner regarding their sale. The pearls have been washed and polished with special cloths until they have regained the lustre which was lost by handling.

SEARCH FOR NEW LANDS

London, December 1

Mexican cattlemen are inquiring as lo the possibility of taking up land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Inquiries have also been received regarding cocoa and rubber-growing land in Papua. DANDY GUARDSMEN. London, December 1. Instructions have been officially issued that Guards officers, when ui mufti iu the neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace, must wear black coats and silk hats. The order is credited as being due to deference to the wishes of the King . Service circles arc much agitated over the question whether a guardsman should he compelled to he a dandy in his own time. ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS.

Berlin, December 1. At a meeting of scientists at Bre

r.u Professor Lnmmer claimed to have, succeeded in dignifying carbon by means of a 220-volt arc lamp burning m a partial vacuum. This is tantamount to the manufacture of real dianonds, because if carbon were melted it would be easy to cool it down and '•rystallise it. FASH SON A3l E WEDDINGS. London, December 1. There are signs of a revolution in ‘lie conduct o' fashionable weddings. Mayfair is eschewing showy ceremony rnd abandoning pomp and circumitance, preferring a quiet family wedling with few guests. TEA IN GREATER DEMAND. London, December 1. Trade statistics reveal an appreciable lodine in. the consumption of beer, hi 1908 the average consumption was 1. gallons, against 20 in 1912. The lemand for spirits is also falling steadly. Cocoa ami tea are increasing in popularity, but coffee is declining. Toiaceo is rapidly rising.:

’FRISCO EXHIBITION. London, December 1. There are indications that neither Britain nor Germany, who are mutual- ,• pledged against official participation ,i the San Francisco Exhibition, is illing to initiate tin invitation to each ~ther to veconsder tile matter, but they would yield if a third party offerd its friendly offices u that direction. The Board of Trane, is disposed to support the Brtish Committee’s reused scheme, involving a grant of ; 100,000, instead of £250,000 origiu- • liy suggested. It is stated that a majority in the Reichstag agreed to a demand for a pedal grant of £IOO,OOO for German ifficial representation at the San Francisco Exhibition. SHSFPiNG DIVIDENDS. Loudon, December 1. The Peninsular and Orient Shipping Company has. decided to add £200,000 Hit of its profits to the existing £250,.100 in its. suspense account, naming his combined provision a contingent und for the purpose of securing, for die present, level dividends. The new irrangement is due to the rising expenditure on coal, wages, victualling, and "epairs, to tin 1 uncertainties of the now mail contract, and to a depression in the freight market. ; AM ARMY SCANDAL. 'United Press .Association.] London, December 1. The hrst inquiry, of which the prose•ution of five Army quartermasters,on ■■• barges of bribery and corruption, was the outcome, led to the War Office pur-

'•basing bulk meat from tbe importers dire; t, instead of from middlemen, thus saving £OO,OOO a year. SLAVE TRADE ACTS. London, December 1. An intiuennnily-signod memorial lias hemi presented to the Prime Minister ('.Mr Asijiutb) asking for tbe modernisation of the Slave Trade Acts, tbe modernisation of anti-slavery treaties, and for additional Consuls in tropica' and snb-tropieal regions ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL SCANDAL. London December 1. Frederick Pater luTs been arrested at West Bromwich for al ie opting t< bribe Jesse Pennington. a V\-‘s.l H' oniwieb Albion nlav<p'. A man in a motor-ear offered F. AVcn ack, raptair of the nirmingbam Football Club, £ ; >7 if lie arranged that bis club’s garni against Grimsby Town was drawn.