VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 115, 17 May 1909, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegrai*.— Pr«i Aiwuciaiion.— Copyright. LORD ROBERTS. (Received May 17, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, 16th May. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts will celebrate his golden wedding on Monday. [Lord Roberts was married on 17th May, 1859, to Nora Henrietta, daughter of Captain Bews, of the 73rd Foot.] GIFT TO A COLLEGE. LONDON, 15th May. The Goldsmiths' Company has given £15,000 to the College of Science and Technology. CADETS TO TOUR AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, 16th May. Forty American cadets will leave San Francisco on Friday on a tour of Australia. They will call at Auckland on 14th June. ARMY AEROPLANE. LONDON, 15th May. Colonel Cody, on board the Army aeroplane at Aklershot, flew a mile at an average height of thirty feet. OBITUARY. LONDON, 16th May. Lady Scott, mother of Countess Russell, is dead. [Deceased was married in 1861 to Sir Claude Scott, who died in 1880.] W. AND A. MACARTHUR. , (Received May 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 16th May. The report of the W. and A. MaoArthur Company for tho year to 31st January shows a profit ot' £1706. A dividend ot" 5^ per cent, ih paid to the preference shares, and £364 is carried forward. (Received Mdy 17, 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, Thi;, Day. The death is announced of Mr, Montagu Scott, the well-known animal painter. USEFUL RAIN. SYDNEY, This Day. Useful rain has fallen in all pail's of the State excepting the coastal districts, wHur.c Uie fall wb» UgbAi Up to up toeh fell iß.tbft Bhmbsn