GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ITALIAN EMIGRANTS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Unhid PRE3S Association.! Rome, April 16. There were 428,484 persons who emigrated to trans-Atlantic countries in 1913, compared with 292,811 in the previous year. Those returning were 182,990, compared witli 188,978. PLAQUE IN CHINA. Sydney. April 17. The steamer Chang-Sha, arrived from Hongkong, reports a serious outbreak of plague. Two hundred cases and 160 deaths were reported in.the week previous to her departure.

WARNING TO SHIP-OWNERS.

London, April 16. Mr Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, speaking at Sunderland, said that if British shipowners continued to employ Chinamen the result would be an industrial unheaval, and work would cease in every port on a given day without notice. THE CIGARETTE HABIT. Ottawa, April 16. Witnesses before the House of Commons on the Cigarette Bill asserted that most society women throughout the Canadian cities were confirmed cigarette smokers. The habit was increasing to an alarming extent. Of three thousand delinquent children, 65 per cent, used cigarettes. The suggestion was made to the committee that it should prevent the use of tobacco by girls and boys throughout Canada.

STEAMER WRECKED. Newcastle, April 17. The steamer Wallarah, of 633 tons, the property of the Wallarah Coal Company, drifted on to a reef during a heavy gale at Catherine Hill Bay. The vessel is a total wreck. .The crew of seventeen men were rescued with difficulty, by mans of a rocket line. The vessel was insured for £BOOO. BRITAIN'S BEER. London, April 17. • For the year ended September, Britain produced 37,000,000 barrels of beer, and the duty amounted to £13,500,000. HOME POSTAL SERVICE. a London, April 17. The postal and telegraph clerks conference condemned tho overtime system as an unjustifiable evil which kept down legitimate wages, 'fostered unemployment, and developed i favoritism.