VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

irEESB ASSOCIATION.! (Received February 4, 9.6 a.m.) THE TRIAL OF HARRY THAW. NEW YORK, 3rd February. Harry Thaw, tho Pitteburg millionaire, who is standing his trial on a charge of murdering Stanford White, complains that the younger mon are being eliminated from tho jury. BILLIARD MATCH. t LONDON, 3rd February. In a billiard match, WeLes defeated Aitken by 8000 to 7947. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. LONDON, 3rd February. Tho Protestant prelates of Ireland havo protested against Mr. Bryos's silence, which they dedaro is calculated to depreciate Dublin degrees and imperil the connection of the Dublin University with Oxford and Cambridge [In a -recent speech deliveied at Dublin last month Mr. Bryce announced the intention of tho Government to create a new college, without any kind of theological test or grant from public funds, for theological purposes. The Royal University would be dissolved and the Dublin University would become a national institution, which would include Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Bryce stated it was projected to establish another college in Dublin, and colleges at Belfast and Cork.] FORGING AND UTTERING. LONDON, 3rd February. * Alfred Oattey, who stated that he was the son of the owner of tho Warwick Farm racecourse, Sydney, and Charles Martin, an American, havo been sentenced to four nnd throe years' imprisonment respectively on charges of forging and uttering. ROYALTIES VISIT TO FRANCE. PARIS, 3Td February. King Edward and Queen Alexandra have arrived in Paris, nnd are Btaying at tho British Embaosy. Despite the fact that they are travelling incognito large crowda cheered their Majesties on arrival. Princess Victoria accompanied them to Calais, nnd proceeded thence on a visit to Norway. ARMY MANOEUVRES. LONDON, 2nd February. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary for War, has announced that Scotland has been selected for holding the summer manoeuvres of the regulaT and auxiliary forces and cavalry. The Duke of Athol has placed his land at tho disposal of th© Government for the manoeuvres. THE REDEN DISASTER. BRUSSELS, 2nd February. Dr. Delbruck, Prussian Minister for Trade and Commerco, has informed the Diet that nobody is left alive in the Reden pits. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. LONDON, 3rd February. Tho Cambridge University Senate, by 70S votes against 638, decided to abolish tho title of Senior Wrangler and substituted in alphabetical order mathematical tripos. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, This Day. At Clifton Mrs. Smith, in a fit of insanity, fatally cut her infant's throat. ■MORE GOLD NUGGETS. MELBOURNE, This Day. Two more nuggots, weighing 206 and 65 ounces respectively, havo been found at Poseidon. KANAKAS TO BE DEPORTED. BRISBANE, This Day. It is estimated that thcro aro still two thousand Kanakas to bo deported.