VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 18, 21 July 1900, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[press association.] A MUNIFICENT DONATION. (Received July 21, 10 a.m.) ' LONDON, 20th July. Sir James J. Chance, -Bart., has given £50,000 to the new Birmingham University. GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS. LONDON, 20th July. The cricket between the Gentlemen and the Players of England, ' which was played at Lords, resulted in a draw. The Gentlemen scored 297 in the first innings and 669 in the second innings. The play- • ers made 129 in the first innings; and had put together 502 for eight wickets in the second when stumps were finally drawn. R. E. for the Gentlemen, made two centuries — 102 (not out) and 136. THE SEAT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. (Received July 21, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Right Hon. G. H. Reid, Leader of the Opposition, differs from the opinion expressed by the Hon. R. E. O'Connor, Q.C., as to the seat of Government under the Commonwealth Act, viz., that it cannot C\ren temporarily be outside New South Wales. He claims that the Act clearly provides that the fixing of the seat of Government rests with the Federal Parliament. • THE KUMASSI EXPEDITION. LONDON, 20th July. The Government proposes to make a grant of £200,000 in aid of the Gold Coast expedition. BRITISH VOLUNTEERS. LONDON, 20th July. The Hon. George Wycdham, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, has abandoned the clause in the Volunteer Bill requiring the men who join volunteers corps to serve abroad.