VARIOUS GABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLES

By Telegraph— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received December 3, 8.5 a.m.) GRAY v. STEVENSON. LONDON, 2nd December. Burroughes and Watts, the billiard firm, waiving all financial considerations, have released Stevenson for a fortnight to play Gray, the young Australian champion. The match will begin on 6th March. BRANDON AND TRENCH. LEIPZIG, 2nd December. Brandon and Trench, the two English officers under arrest on a charge of espionage, will be tried in the Imperial Court on the 16th inst. [The two officers, it is understood, admit that they went to Germany to collect information to place at Britain's disposal, and the question is how far that information was secret. Photographs and maps of Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, the North. Sea islands, the forts of Borkum, and the waterways of the Ems, in which the position of the buoys is marked, were, it was reported, found under the mattress of the bed in which Trench slept while staying at an hotel at Emden.] THE DALAI LAMA. CALCUTTA, 2nd December. The Dalai Lama has renewed hi& request to be allowed to visit England. The situation at Lhassa is again unquiet. (Received December 3, 8.30 a.m.) NEW LICENSE DUTIES. LONDON, 2nd December. The Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society estimate that the license duties at the end of October amounted to £1,061,768 — fourfold the amount raised on the old basis. EXPLORING SHIP NIMROD. LONDON, 2nd December. The exploring ship Nimrod, in which Sir Ernest Shackleton, made his Antarctic voyage, was offered for sale by auction, and withdrawn at £2975. APPEAL CASES. LONDON, 2nd December. The appeal case Spencer v. the Registrar of Titles of West Aiistralia was dismissed. In the case Smith and othersvv. Cock, judgment was reserved. AN OIL COMPANY'S ENVOY. • LONDON, 2nd December. Mr. J. Henry, the oil expert, is a. passenger by the P. and O. steamer Mantua. He will visit New Zealand, thft United States, and the Far East iv the interests of the Colonial Oil Company. TICHBORNE ESTATE. LONDON, 2nd December. The estate of the late Sir Henry Tichborne is valued at £144,631. (Received December 3, 10 a.m.) LATE COUNT TOLSTOI. ST. PETERSBURG, 2nd Dec. Measures are being takei. to prevent M. Tchertkoff from acting as Count Tolstoi's literary executor, the ground that he is not connected with the Count's family. DAMAGES ONE FARTHING. SYDNEY, This Day. In the slander action Strahan v. Inner, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages one farthing.