VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 13, 8 a.m.) BEQUEST FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY. •LONDON, 12th February. Dr. Charles Theodore Williams bequeathed £119,467 to Oxford University for the purposes of medical education. [Dr. Williams was consulting physician to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton and to King Edward Vll. 's Sanatorium for Consumption.] (Received February 13, 10.20 a.m.) SIR JOHN TAVERNER. LONDON, 12th February. Mt. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, presided at the Agents-General's farewell luncheon to Sir- John TaVerner, who has been AgentGeneral for Victoria since 1904. QUEEN'S SUCCESSES AT A SHOW. LONDON, 12th February. Queen Alexandra won first, second, and thiiJd prizes for Basset hound* at the Croft Show. Her Majesty also won several other prizes. A JUMPER SOLD. LONDON, This Day. A horse named HighjumpeT, winner of prizes at Olympia, was sold for 1450gns. DAMAGE BY SUFFRAGETTES. LONDON, 12th February. Suffragettes burnt a refreshment-shed at Regent's Park Cricket Ground. The damage ia estimated at £700. (Received February' 13, 9.5 a.m.) SIR GEORGE REID. LONDON, 12th February. Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, who has had 'an attack of influenza, is better, but is still confined to his Toom. i IMPROVED ARMOUR-PLATE. LONDON, 12th February. The Admiralty is testing a Sheffield mi vention for increasing the resistance of armoured plate while reducing the weight by IS .per cent. THE ELOPING VICAR. LONDON, 12th February. ' The Rev. Albert Knight, the .vicar of Hunslet, near Leeds, who left his wife and sailed to Victoria with a female companion as an assisted emigrant, had previously written to the Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for .New Zealand, for an assisted passage, but his application was refused, as he failed to produce evidence as to his experience. TRAGIC DEATH OF A PHOTOGRAPHER. BRISBANE, 12th February. Evidence given at the enquiry into the death of August Stracker, the travelling photographer, who was blown to pieces while camped near Noogoora, snowed that he had a parcel of detonators and some dynamite in his wagonette. murder of a,n austrian socialist Deader., VIENNA, 12th February. M. Schumeir, Parliamentaf y Leader of the Austrian Socialists, has been assassinated at a Vienna railway station. The murderer was arrested. KING GEORGE AND THE BIBLE. LONDON, 12th February. The Council of the Sunday School Union has presented an address to the King thanking him for daily readihg the Bible. [King George recently stated that he daily read the Bible, in keeping with a promise made some years ago.] (Received February 13, 10.45 a.m.) NICKEL COINAGE/ MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Government has decided to adopt nickel instead of copper coinage. (Received February 13, 11 a.m.) VIENNA, 12th February. Knnschak, an iron worker, and a supposed brother of the leader of the Christian Socialists, followed Schuhmeier from the meeting and shot him in the ear with a pistol. He admitted that his object was revenge, and declares that he had been boycotted, and was unable to get work, owing to his expulsion from the Socialist organisation on suspicion that he wa<s securing th© arrest of workmen. LYNCHING IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. 12th Feb. Five thousand peasants at - Kharkov demolished the Courthouse, and lynched two horse thieves.

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