GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AMALGAMATED NICERIA. [By Electric Teleguafh—Copybight] [United Press Association.] London, January 2. The King, on the occasion of the amalgamation of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria, telegraphed to Sir Frederick Lagard, who lias been appointed Governor-General of Nigeria, requesting him to convey to the Emir's people his best wishes for theii future happiness and prosperity, and an assurance of the great interest he takes in their welfare. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, January 4. The "Anti-slavery Reporter" announced that Mr Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies) will repeal on first January, 1915, the ordinances confirming the system of domestic slavery in Southern Nigeria. TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT. Constantinople, January 4. T/.zet Pasha has resigned the portfolio of War and Enver Bey succeeds him. NEW CREEK LOAN. Athens, January 4. A Bill has been read a first time uithorising a twenty million sterling ive per cent, loan to bo issued at FATALITIES AT METZ. (Received 9.15 a.m.) • -Berlin, January 4.

A military train near Metz collided ,vith a buffer stop. The coach -was telescoped and seven soldiers killed. Twelve were seriously injured. THE CZAR'S SOLDIERS. St. Petersburg, January 4. The soldiers who guarded the Czar's rain along the entire route from Vloscow to St. Petersburg suffered ?everely in the heavy snow storms. Vlany wandered on to the track dazed md.were killed by passing trains. LYNCH LAW r IN TEXAS, , (Received 9.45 a.m.) .New Yoi;k, Januarj 3. At Jefferson, Texas, fifteen masked meft took David Leo from the county jaol and .ha.nged.biin! Ao a bridge. Lee vas accused of the murder of a condiabiei'i,i/ n. : ! ti v.\'-M nI;};),» A MARTYR TO FASHION. New York, January 3. At Pittsburg a lady wearing a bustle md a' newly-imported Parisian toilette •reated a disturbance 'along Fifth Avenue, /the fashionable thoroughfare. 4 mob gathered when the lady appeared and hissed her and it her.'. Police finally .rescuerl. fh.e;Jady rom' the moll's .curiosity f am;l .-placed ler m r -i bank, closing the doors against ; ,he crowd. ~,,,; !> ,'i ■ ■■'•{{ • >.! ;!'jrul| f M.-'liffl "■'"

BIBLE-TEACHING. London, January 3. Viscount Bryce,.iii an address to a inference of educational associations it University College, London, entered 1 warm plea for" Bible-teaching., He egretted that knowledge of the, Bible -; declining among all classes of the ommunity, and said that he had been (truck with the same thing in the Tnited States. It would be a great nisfortuno to Great Britain if a gene•ation of children grew up without ; knowing the Bible. The loss would be incalculable from the educational stand--x>itit alone. CONDEMNED MEAT. London, January 2. The sanitary authorities seized a •mndred cases of New South Wales' )x-tongues, ex steamer Rangatira, and condemned eight per cent, on account )f their putridity. The Chief Sanitary Inspector says that if such goods massed the export inspector the eximinatioli was nothing more than a : arce. THE PARIS MURDER. Paris, January 2. Fragson's will shows that his estate s worth £BO,OOO, besides an insurance >olicy, in his father's favor, for 212,000. ' NAVY ESTIMATES. London, January 3. One hundred Liberal members of the iouse of Commons have united against ncreases in the Navy Estimates. A MUNIFICENT BEQUEST. Mr Thomas Cuvelje, who was a nember of the Stock Exchange, has bcjueathed £70,000 for the foundation >f a cancer hospital at Fulham. STAR QF'&COTLAND DAMAGED. The steamer Star of Scotland, bound 'or Hawke's Bay, collided with a tug in the Thames. She will be docked |it Tilbury for repairs. ( ~.i , MUTINY IN A PRISON. Cairo, January 3. Convicts at Tomal Prison mutinied and injured eighteen warders. The guards fired and killed lour convicts and wounded fifty, and the rising was suppressed. A CAFE OVERWHELMED. Tangier, January 3. A roekslide near Rabat overwhelmed a cafe. Twenty-two Moorish laborers were killed. It is believed that many others are entombed.