VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 13 November 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[rRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received November 13, 10.20 a.m.) GREEK AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. LONDON, 12th November. The Convocation of Oxford University lias negatived by % majority of twentythreo a proposal to abolish Greek as a compulsory .subject at R-esponsions — the title given to entrance examinations. MOUNT KEMBLA RELIEF FUND. SYDNEY, 12th November. The Premier <Sir John See) has received from the Otago Daily Times, New Zealand, a cheque for £70, collected towards the Mount Kembla Relief Fund. THE HUNGARIAN VIOLINIST. LONDON, 12th November. Jan Kubelik, the young Hungarian violinist, played at the King's Birthday dinner. LONDON'S UNDERGROUND RAIL. WAYS. LONDON, 12th November. Mr. Balfour, Prime Minister, will appoint a commission to' enquire into the question of tubing London. A RECQRD HERRING CATCH. LONDON, 12th November. There has been a record catch of herrings off the British coast. Fifty-three millions were offered at Yarmouth. FIRE AT A DUCAL RESIDENCE. LONDON, 12th November. The Duke of Orleans's residence, in the Puy de Dome, the.C hateau de Randan, is ablaze. MARTIAL LAW IN THE TRANSVAAL. CAPETOWN, 12th November. A modified permib system is to replace martial law in the Transvaal. THE DOUKHOBORS. OTTAWA, 12th November. The Doukhobors — the Russian fanatical secb which refuses to kill animals or to use meat as food — have promised to remain quiescent until the spring. THE EAST MALVERN TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, This Day. Arthur Mueller, who "killed his wife and son at East Malvern, and afterwards ■shob himself, has died from his wounds. BAD WEATHER IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, This Day. Owing to severe dust-storms the city is in semi-darkness, and a similar state of affairs is sported from many inland towns. Fierce • squalls have done much damage to property and disorganised the telegraph service THE KTXG AND HIS IMPERIAL f4UEST. LONDON, 12th November. Kinjj Edward, Emperor William, and the Prince of Wales took part in a •pheasant battue on the Sandringhain estate.