CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1936, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BADEN POWELL BEQUESTS. fPBEBB ABBN. —COPYRIGHT./ « LONDON, April 30. Colonel John Spilling left an estate of £371,431. His will includes bequests of £20,000 to Lord Baden Powell, and £5,000 to. Lady Baden Powell, thereby celebrating their sixty years of friendship, begun when Lord Baden Powell entered the Thirteenth Hussars in the year 1876, under Colonel Spilling. AUSTIN GIFT. LONDON, April 30. “What does it feel like to give away a quarter of a million sterling?” a reporter asked Sir Herbert , Austin (the motor magnate). lie answered: “I don’t feel a bit excited.” The question followed the announcement of Sir H. Austin’s gift of the amount stated to the Cavendish Laboratory, which is regarded as the outstanding scientific research institution in Britain. TRICKSTER SENTENCED. LONDON, May 1. The Paris correspondent •of the “Daily Mail” says: The man Warren, who .was arrested aboard the Orontes on April 5, has been sentenced at Peronne to five years’ imprisonment for the theft of £650 from a French farmer in October, 1935. Evidence was given that Warren,induced the farmer to show him his money in a Peronne cafe, for which money Warren substituted. ordinary paper. The farmer did not discover his loss until he went to the bank to deposit the mon-ey. I