VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (deceived February 24, 8.40 a.m.) PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN' KNOWLEDGE. LONDON, 23rd February. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has received an anonymous donation of £10,000. SIX DAYS' CYTOLING CONTEST. MELBOURNE, This Day. A six days' cycling contest started at midnight. Thirteen teams are competing. BODY IDENTIFIED. MELBOURNE, This Day. A headless body found at Maloney'e Creek a few days ago has been identified as that of James Taylor, who disappeared from the Beechworth Benevolent Asylum in December last. (Received February 24, 9.25 a.m.) MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED. SYDNEY, This Day. A boat capsized in "the harbour and Mrs. Dummetfc and her little daughter were drowned. A FIRE-HEAVY DAMAGE. SYDNEY, This Day. A fire gutted five shops at Summer Hill. The damage is heavy. (Received February 24, 8.20 a.m.) VOLCANO ACTIVE. ST. PETERSBURG, 23rd Feb. The Berezooski volcano Kamchatka is erupting cinders for a radius of ten kilometres (6 1-5 miles). tOn the Peninsula of Kamchatka, of North-east Asia, there are no less than twelve aotive volcanoes and twenty-six extinct ones, from 7000 to 16,000 feet high.] THE STEAMER INNAMINCKA. SYDNEY, Thin Day. The steamer Innamincka, which went ashore on the Northern Queensland coast during a recent storm, but which' was subsequently moved off, has been docked. Tho damage through etranding is slight. / (Received February 24, 9.30 a.m.) GERMAN MILITARY BALLOON EXPLODES. BERLIN, 23rd February. A military balloon, when landing near Metz, exploded. The three officers aboard were not hurt. UNIVERSITIES AND TERRITORIALS. LONDON, 22nd February. Sixty-three members of tho Senate of Cambridge University oppose co-operat-ing with Oxford to make the conferment of degrees dependent upon the attaining of efficiencif in the Territorials or Officers' Training Corps. * .PERMITS FOR PURCHASE OF AMMUNITION. CAPETOWN, 22nd February. The House of Assembly, by 58 votes to 38, has decided against the Government inserting in the Arms Bill the Cape and Natal principle of permits for the purchase of ammunition. ADMIRAL HENDERSON. LONDON, 22nd February. j Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, who j some time ago reported on the Aus- j tralian defences, has joined the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into questions of fuel and cngineq for the Navy. [Tho terms of reference of the Commission, of which Admiral of the Fleet,. Lord Fisher, of Kilverstone, is chairman, are : To report on the means of supply and storage of liquid fuel in peace and war and its applications to warship engines, whether indirectly or by internal combustion. In referring to the Commission when it was first proposed to set it up, Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, said: — "There is nothing sensational about this. The enquiry will be a very long business, but it will not obstruct Admiralty action in the meanwhile, and it portends no sudden or extensive changes in the methods of construction. But the subject is one of very high importance, and requires comprehensive and exhaustive study. Lord Fisher has at my request consented to take charge of this enquiry."] MARCONI CONTRACT. LONDON, 22nd February. The Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company has reaffirmed the termination of its contract with the British Post Office on Ist March, but is willing to reconsider the matter when the Government has arrived at a definite decision. MAD DOG BITES TWENTY PERSONS. BERLIN, 22nd February. , A mad dog bit twenty people in the streets before a policeman Babred it. Nino of those bitten arc receiving Pasteur treatment. CITY OF AUCKLAND LOAN. LONDON, 22nd February. The City of Auckland loan for £100,000 in 4£ per cent, debentures, repayable in 1936, has been over-subscribed,..