MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15137, 19 March 1913, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Mr Broadhead. of Christchurch, won an open senior scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. Sir W. Hall-Jones will sail for New Zealand on the 20th inst. The Colonial Institute has decided to elect associates United Kingdom. The London Fire Brigade have tested a device for utilising paraffin at 7d per gallon. The motors averaged at speed of 20 miles per gallon. The Bankruptcy Bill, expediting the proedure, has been rend a second time in Parliament. Tt punishes certain commercial offences, and allows the creditors of a second bankruptcy to rank equally with those under the first. The Pope has decreed a universal jubilee from Low Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter) till December 8, in commemoration of the Emperor Constantine granting peace to the Church. The Pelorus landed bluejackets at Bunder Abbas to assist to drive off the Baharloos. It is feared, from the discovery of wreckage, that the steamer Peruhia, ore laden, and bound from Narvik to Emden, has been lost, with a crew of 28. A survey shows that the bottom of the warship Psyche is in a bad way. It is believed that almost the whole of the plates must be renewed. The Southampton (England) police state there is nothing to support the theory of foul play in connection with tho death of Frances Leslie on the s.s. Oceanic. The entombed Townshead miners have been rescued.

M. Bergmann, a Frenchman, has been arrested at Metz on a charge of espionage.