Australian Cables

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1913, Page 3

Australian Cables

[KI.KCTUir TKI.KUKAIMI, (OI'VKK.IIT. ] jI'KU I'IU'.SS ASSoriATIO.X.] (I'eceived This ]);i\- (S'.o") a.m.) PANAMA EXHIiHTinN. Melbourne, This Day. The Hon. Mr Cook says that as the Slates seem unprepared to accept Ihe financial responsibility of representation at the Panama Exhibition, the Commonwealth is le.fl alone to shoulder the burden. In the event of the States declining h> ad, it is proposed h> granl £20,()()(), which probably will be spenl on some form of advertising Australia. PIOXEKirS WKALTII. William Kebbie, a pioneer, aged !U, has died at BalJaral. lie lived for years in apparent poverty. After his death it was discovered that he owned property to the value of £.'!().()()(). He'bequeathed £liuO h> relatives, t'OO to the Bnllarat Hospital, and the balance of the es'tale goes h> found a Robbie Scholarship in Chemistry, Mathematics and Natural Philoso- ' phy, at Aberdeen University.