GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 December 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

' COUNTESS DE LA WARR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [ United Press Association.! The Countess tie la Warr lias been granted restitution of conjugal rights. A SETTLEMENT CLAIM. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Hugh Formby, the well-known athlete, and formerly tutor to Mr Samuel Hillwood, M.P., is suing Hill wood for £6OO per annum, which. Hillwood settled on Formby in 1900 to enable him to marry. Hillwood’s income is £15,000. Formby admits that in 1905 he inherited an estate valued at £46,000. Hillwood pleads undue influence; also that the inheritance invalidates the settlement. THE TEXAS FLOODS. (Received 11.35 a.m.) New York, December 8. Twenty persons were drowned in the Brookshire district, Texas, as the result of the floods, uwbich are nowabating. Further loss of life is not anticipated.

A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.

(Received 11.15 a.m.) Washington ,December 8. Wireless repoyts have been received at Norfolk, Wes*'Virginia, stating that the steamer Rio Grande caught fire at sea and that , . the: passengers were transferred to tpe steamerSwanmore; that the latter’s crew extinguished the fire and re-transferred passengers*. Mystery shroud as .no ship called the Rio Grande is register(kl,i except a coasting vessel, which does nbt carry passengers.. * | y t i ti ■ ' ’