GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6, 7 January 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SUEZ CANAL. I Hy Electric Telegraph—Copyright J [United Prims Association.] Suez, January 5. Tlic maximum draught oi' the Sue/. Canal lias been increased from 28ft, to 29ft.

THE MEAT TRADE.

London, January 6

Mr Dunlop, director of Eastman's Ltd., meat purveyors, has sailed fo, Australia and New Zealand to en quire into the meat trade 'there; wit'i a view to the firm opening up a direc trade.

GREECE WANTS BATTLESHIPS

Vienna, January 6

The newspapers state that Greec is negotiating for the purchase of th Chilian Dreadnought La Terre, whie is being built by Armstrong, >.-u< worth and Co., for £2,500,000. Greec also hopes to buy another immediate

TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS.

London, January 6

A ballot is now in progress anion: trades unions, in conformity with tli Trades Unions Act, on the questio of applying union funds to politic;. objects.

THE PARIS MURDER.

Paris, January 6

Fragson's father lias beetfTemovc to a gaol infirmary. He is extrenu ly weak from diabetes. ,

LEPROSY IN FRANCE.

Paris, January 6

Owing, to alarm at the steady ii crease of leprosy, a Bill is being pij< pared to make it a notifiable diseaV and'to provide for the isolation <- streets in which cases occur.

MOTOR BANDITS.

Paris, January 6

The police stifled an attempt to r suscitate the Bonnot gang of mot bandits. A plot was unearthed Jr'ob' a bank clerk! near Meaux with t kid of a motor-car winch was' rtcar. Jly stolen, and .also to hold'up'a 'hai 'across the Belgian frontier. Tin men were arrested.

BRISTOL'S TRADE. j, ; ;• li 'it' ; ■}■ ■"■ 171' '! London, January' 6. J Mr'Henry' Kesblu.i', a''prOmiiie Bristol commercial man, 1 by Itr LewiW WmWi'ciaf superinto heiit of'*the ! 'BmtoT clocks; } lias'sail. W 'Australasia J tb •'pVoinoLc Btistb! claims as an advantageous distribu ing port for Australasian produce.

CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY.

Berlin, January 5. •'" The Crown Prince lias commence sri« duties&flS3RiApfftaK?>n rtUpHQ&enjpra Staff, under General—Hclmuth vo M«like, in dJftrJjfooßh Bei Si* 'do^gbtci but Dantzig mourns his departure The Crown" p'rmce accepted meinbei ship of the ■\C;iblnet-makcis* ,! TTnki before his departure.' The''town r Zcppot purchased fir him a' "seasic! villa, so as to be able to see thei favorite every year. THE DOMINIONS COMMISSION London, January 6.

The Dominions Commission hopi to publish on Saturday a volume o the trade possibilities of New Zealand, followed shortly by two volume on Australia.

ANCIENT ROME. Rome, January 5. Details of the discovery made li Commander Boni, director of the e:. cavations in the Roman Forum an the Palatine, state that he sank : shaft on the summit of Palatine Hi' and discovered the 'mundus sacred 1 Dis and Proserpine, covered by tb lapis manalis, a square rough slab o tufa pierced with two round holes, ; vaulted granary and favissac belov the granary. The mundus was th innermost shrine and holiest contn of the ancient religion. DILEMMA OF A CHURCH. Cadiz, January 5. A court-martial sentenced Colom Labrador, a Protestant, to six months imprisonment for refusing to attew Mass before holding a court-martial of which Colonel Labrador himseit was previously appointed president. The sentence places the Romai Catholic Church in an awkward dilemma, it being a direct violation of its precepts forbidding the celebration of Mass in the presence -of non-Roman Catholic or excommunicated persons.