VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

» By Telegraph.— ste*e Anoeiatioa.— Copyright, (Received February 10, 0 a, fti.) KING AND PRINCE IN A DIRIGIBLE., MADRID, 9th February. King Alfonso and Prince Leopold of Battenberg sailed over Madrid In a dirigible. They were in the air for two hours. (Received February 10, 9.5 a.m.) AVIATOR AND MECHANIC i KILLED. BERLIN, ,9th February. , Captain Jenethky, a military aviator, with a mechanic, was flying over the Gulf of Dantzic, when the machine fell and both men Were drowned. THREE STANDING JUMPS. • NEW YORK,. 9th February. At Boston, Platt-Adams broke the world's record in the three standing jumps, doing 34ft 9£itt. [According to Miller's Sp&rtihg Pamphlet, the record for three standing broad jump Without Weights is 42ft 6in, put Up by J. Darby in 1592. at Maiv Chester; and for three standing jumps with Weights 36ft 44in, by T. Colquett in 1900, at St. Helens, England.;) J. D. ROCKEFELLER. v NEVV YORK, 9th February. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, Who became ill While being examined at the Jekyl Islahd, Georgia, by the Money Trust Investigation CdfflfnitWe, is out of immediate danger. AN AVOWED SYNDICALIST. LONDON, 9th February. The Hon. W< J. Montagu Armstrong, Lord Armstrong's son, in an article published in a Newcastle pap^r, avows himself a syndicalist if the political weapon fails. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO LONDON. TOKIO, 9th February. M. Inottye Katßtinosuke, ex-Ambas-sador to Berlin, has been appointed Ambassador to London. [The new Ambassador to London was born in 1860. He was appointed Secretary to the Japanese Legation in Berlin 1886, Secretary and Councillor to the Foreign Office in 1892, and Ambassador to Berlin in 1898.] CHARGE OF MURDER. MELBOURNE, Bth February. Walter James Anderson has been charged with the murder of Fredk. John Flint, Who was poisoned by eating jam containing strychnine. Anderson, who is a tnarried man, made love uusiiccessfully to a girl who was keeping company with Flin ts mate. The Fatter Was camping with Flint. The jury disagreed, and accused was remanded. CANADA AND JAPAN. OTTAWA, Bth February. Negotiations are pending *for a new trade agreement between Canada and Japan. Mr. Foster is returning to AUs* tralia, and will likely visit Japan. GIFTS TO COMPLETE A UNIVERSITY. LONDON, Bth February. Messrs. George and Henry Wills have given £5150,000 to complete the University of Bristol in. memory of their father, wild contributed £10d,000. Mr. W. Wills, another sbn, contributes £20,000. MARCONI COMPANY AND POST OFFICE. LONDON, Bth February. The Marconi Company, in , reply to Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-Gen-eral, requests the ratification of the contract between the company and the British Post Office by Ist March, otherwise they will terminate it. ELEVEN MEN DROWNED. T LONDON, Bth February. " A hopper dredge was capsized during a gale in the Mersey. Eleven men were drowned. FATALITY AT A MINE. LONDON, Bth February. At Bolsover Colliery, the chain attached to a tank containing 800 gallons of water broke, and crashed dbWh wards from a height of 160 yards, killing" or drowning thirteen men who Were sinking a shaft. Five were rescued.