VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. THE KING AND QUEEN. ' (Received February 5, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. The steamer Medina, with their Majecties tho King and Queen on board, has arrived at Spithead. (Received February 5, 8.10 a.m.) BILLIARDS. LONDON, 4th February. Lindrum's score is 16.000. He made a break of 462, including 429 off the red. Recce is 9548. STEAMER FRANCE SAFE. SYDNEY, This Day. Advices from Noumea state that the steamer France, which was reported a« being overdue from New Hebrides, ia safe. (Received February 5, 9 a.m.) FROZEN TO DEATH. ST. PETERSBURG, 4th February. Eighteen persons were frozen to deathand thirty buried in the snow in tht> Ibhim district, -Western Siberia. MR. BALFOUR AT TENNIS. PARIS, 4th February. Mr. A. J. Balfour is quite a hero at Cannes through winning several tennis prizes. , (Received February 5, 9.35 a.m.) TASMANLAN ELECTIONS. HOBART, This Day. Tne general elections have been fixed for 30th April. LATE DUKE OF FIFE. "PORT SAID, 3rd February. H.M.S. Powerful, now Homewardbound, from Australia, will convey the Duke of Fife's body, to England. (Received February 5, 9.5 a.m.) CAIRO, 4th February. Tiord Kitchener (British Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary), and high British Egyptian officials, including a representative of the Khedive, attended a memorial service to the late Duke of Fife. LEAGUE FOOTBALL. LONDON, 4th February. At Rugby football, Wales beat Scotland by 21 points to 6. BRITISH BY-ELECTION. LONDON, 3rd' February. The by-eiectlon for East Edinburgh, rendered necessary by the death of the late Sir J. P. Gibson, resulted as fol-' low* j— Mr. J. M. Hogge (L.) 5064, Mr. Jameson (U.) 4139.