GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 85, 10 December 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

COUNTESS DE LA WARR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] The Countess de la AN ait 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 Hillwood for £6OO per annum, which Hillwood settled, on Formby in 1900 to enable him to marry. Hillwood’s income is £13,UUU. Formby admits that in 1905 he inherited an estate valued at £4(3,000. Hillwood pleads undue influence; also that the inheritance invalidates the settlement. THE TEXAS FLOODS. (Received IT .33 a. m.) New York, December 8. Twenty persons were drowned in the Brookshire district, Texas, as the result of the floods, which are now abating. Further loss of life is not anticipated.

A MYSTERY OF THE SEA. (Received 11.15 a.in.) ' Washington ,December 8. Wireless reports have been received at Norfolk, West Virginia, stating that the steamer Rio Grande caught hie at sea and that the passengers were transferred to the steamer Swanmore ; that the latter’s crew extinguished the fire and re-transferred passengers. Mvsterv shrouds the message, as no ship called the Rio Grande is registered, except a coasting vessel, which does not curry pussengei s.