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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 7

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*y telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyxlfht. (Received January 22, 10.20 a,m.) • FOOTBALLERS' EXPENSES, LONDON, 21st January. The Pall Mall Gazette states that besides the wholesale suspension of Devonshire football clubs' players in 'connection with payment of expenses, the Rugby Union is investigating the matter of expenses allowed to Oxford University men on the Christmas tour in France. LORDS SUPPORT FREE TRADE. . LONDON, 21st January. Lord Avebury presided over a large meeting in the city in favour of Free Trade. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Lord Brassey, Lord Ritchie, and Lord Inchape also spoke. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION. LONDON, 21st January. The British India Steam Navigation Co. has acquired the business and fleet of Messrs. Archibald Currie and Co., who own six steamers trading between Australia and the East. . OBITUARY. MELBOURNE, 21st January. The death is announced of, Mr. Arthur Lloyd Windsor, formerly editor of the Age for many years, and for a brief period editor of the Argus. [Mr. Windsor was born at Barbadoes in J836. After resigning the editorship of the Argus he edited the Mount Alexander Mail for «ome time.] BOY SCOUTS. LONDON, 21st January. There are 158,715 Boy Scouta in Great Britain and 40,473 overseas. Lord Rosebery is president of 1 the London Boy Scouts. FROM MINER TO LEADER. LONDON, 22nd January. The newspapers give prominence to Mr. Joseph Cook's election as Leader of the Federal Opposition, generally under the heading, "From Miner to Party Leader." .(Received January 82, 11.30 a.m.), AN EDITOR FINED. LONDON, 21st January. Dewend Fenton, an editor, has been fined £90 for utilising the Post Office to circulate sporting items containing indecent articles.