VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.--»l?ress AsßOciatioti.^Copyrighfc, (Received January 25, 9.36 a*m.} A MAN" WITH GRIT. ■ SYDNEY, This Day. At Orange, George White, an elderly man, was standing on a ladder, when he had an arm torn off at the elbow by machinery in a foundry. He came down from the ladder, and walked out across the road to a doctor. RUSSIAN STEAMER'S END. ADEN", 24th January. The Russian steamer Estonia, which was abandoned at sea last week, was towed to port where, she exploded and foundered. CLERGYMAN FAREWELLED. LONDON, 24th January. The Very Rev. Dr. Mitchell, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, presided at a banquet in Edinburgh to farewell the Rev. William Borland, of the Scots Church, Melbourne. (Received January 25, 10.25 a.m.) DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT. LONDON, 24th January. The King's 'Bench Division of the High Court of Justice has awarded the Marconi Wireless Company £6000 against Goukashoff for breach of contract in connection with a Russian Company. H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, 24th January. The King will inspect the New Zealand on sth February, and the vessel will sail for New Zealand on 6th February. A FALSE ALARM. ' BRISBANE, 24th January. The wreckage reported as been seen on the Central Queensland coast, consists merely of a punt load of furniture, belonging to a fisherman, which has capsized. \ AN AUSTRALIAN REFORMER. LONDON, 24th January. The Times, in an appreciative obituary notice of the late Mr. Arthur Lloyd Windsor, who was for many years editor ol the Melbourne Age, says his name will be always associated with Australian schemes of social reform and humanitarian legislation. RAILWAY CARS ON FIRE. • BRISBANE, 24th January. A fire at Wallangarra destroyed four railway passenger carriages, including an old vice-regal and parlour car. The damage is estimated at £12,000. BLAYNEY BY-ELECTION. SYDNEY, 24th January. Mr. Beeby's majority In the Blayney by-election was 136.