GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

! Mr Ei.eotiuo TELEGit/Lra— -Copyright] [United Press .Association.j London,’ March 5. There is an outbreak of loot and mouth disease in the Conway district. The Chartered Company of South Africa agrees to refer the question of ownership of nualienated lands in Rhodesia to the Privy Council. Paris, March 5. A young German lady arrested at Cherbourg was found to be in possession of complete plans of the naval arsenal. The Suez Canal is being deepened to admit of 28,000 tenners drawing 83 feet. Rome, March 5. An avalanche on the Ortler Alps killed seventeen soldiers, who were engaged in manoeuvres. Sir William Lever, presiding at Lever Bros.’ meeting, referring to the shortage of labor in the Solon.on Islands, said he did not see the slightest objection to importing labor from congested India. Sir John Kirk is distributing 1 unley’s welcome gift of frozen mutton to the poor of London and Liverpool. Melbourne, March (5. The report of the Australian Steamships, Limited, which took over the interests of the Howard Smith Co., shows the year’s net profits to be £40,473. A meeting of Methodists in connection with the Conference inaugurated la. thanks-giving fund to mark the icentenary of Methodism in Australia. Over £7(100 was promised in the Iroom. It is stated (hat there are now 995 ministers and 021,374 attendants at Methodist churches in 1 Australia and the Pacific Islands.