CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10190, 16 March 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Press Association.

The Queensland University was opened yesterday with sixty students. The Governor, as Chancellor, delivered an inaugural address outlining the objects of the institution.

R. J. Larking, of Melbourne, now a student at Oxford University, won the middleweight inter-university boxing competition.

Forty prisoners killed the guards and escaped from gaol at Vera Cruz. They were pursued by the police. A running fight occurred in the streets, when several were killed. The majority of the convicts escaped to the woods.

The Aerial League of Australia asks the Federal Government to grant a subsidy of three thousand pounds for the proposed Sydney-Melbourne flight, conditional on the public subscribing ten thousand.

Mr Fisher, speaking at Ipswich, said that if the referenda proposals were not carried this time they . would come again in a way to make their opponents fall down in fright.

A note has been presented to China declaring that the latter's replies indicate an unfriendly distortion of treaty provisions, and that persistence in this would lead to a disturbance of the present relations.

A cloud burst on the Northern slopes of Mount Victoria. It cut a gorge a mile in length by a chain wide down to the bedrock, denuding a dense forest and exposing a reef, showing indications of good gold.

In connection with the cabled statement that Mr William Redmond was visiting Australia to collect Home Rule propaganda funds, Cardinal Moran advises that Mr Redmond goes to New Zealand, and will not visit Australia.

A rich gold find is reported from Gundagai. One hundredweight of stone yielded one hundred ounces. Another parcel of 901bs dollied 120ozs. (Gundagai is a small town situate 250 miles south-west from Sydney, not far from the new capital area site.)

A man, armed with a revolver, ent red the Elizabeth Street branch ; of *he Post Office, Melbourne, and he threatened to shoot the postmistress unless she handed him the contents of the till. He started to clime over the counter, when he noticed another woman at the telephone box. This alarmed him, and he bolted.

At the Toowoomba Mayoral reception, Mr Fisher, responding to the Mayor's hope that he would return from the Coronation as Sir Andrew, declared that, he would not accept ? title of any kind. He added that it was time men refused titles and honours which might be offered them.

Mathilda Runge, wife of a drunken loafer, of Berlin, fearing her husband s cruelty, brewed coffee with cyanide of potassium in it. She dressed her children in clean linen, and herselt donned a black dress. After this she deliberately poisoned her three children. But then her courage failed, and she did not commit suicide.

Mr Fitzgerald, the manager of the South African cricket team, states that it will be able to pay the expenses out of the receipts of the tour. He added that he expected that the receipts would have been a little larger, but is not dissatisfied. The team had had a most enjoyable time and was thoroughly satisfied with everything and everybody. ; . .