GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, 25 April 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A HINDU CUSTOM. [By EiiEOTßio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association. 1 Calcutta, April 23. The wife of Lcminder, aged 26. drenched her clothes with kerosene two minutes after her husband's death, and, setting fire to them, was burned to death. The double funeral was attended by a huge crowd, the self-immolation of the wife being generally considered a highly meritorious act. PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. ■» j. erp'-r.T/i ..-nr ‘ ;«>*•' London, April 23. The Archbishop of Canterbury, at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, said they must iROt transplant among native Christian communities the lines of the sectional denominations due really to the idiosyncracies of individuals in English history years ago. They must also preserve the ideal of one Catholic Apostolic Church. <* OUR DAILY BREAD. Melbourne, April 24. The Bakers’ Union application for the substitution of day baking was dismissed by the Federal Arbitration Court, on the ground that public convenience favored the system of night baking. A NOVEL AUTOMOBILE. London, April 23. A motor car on two wheels, placed centrally on a chassis, has been built to the order of Schilowsky, a Russian lawyer, by Wolseley’s. The power is . devised by a gyroscope in the centre of the chassis below the front seats. The car is electricallydriven. ;V