CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1944, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

MR. KING’S LEGACY

OTTAWA, December 24. Sir William Mulock, former Chancellor of the University of Toronto, who died on October 1 at the age ot 100, bequeathed 50,000 dollars from his estate of 2,500,000 dollars to the Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Mackenzie King). Sir William Mulock was responsible for introducing Mr. Mackenzie King into public life when Minister of Labour *in 1900, and he selected Mr. Mackenzie King as Deputy-Min-ister of Labour. HIGH-PRICED BULL. BUENOS AIRES. December 24. The Aberdeen Angus champion bull, Better of Berculich, was sold tor 37.500 dollars at auction in Buenos Aires. The highest price for a bull in Argentina was 38,000 dollars, paid in 1925 for a Shorthorn. jured _ in~Th?~first V-bomb attack against Northern England when a bomb fell on houses in a residential district. It wrecked and badly damaged a number of houses. Anomer V bomb fell on the border of a town, causing superficial damage to_ houses. A German High Command communique says that long-range hre was directed at Manchester. “More than 1000 V2 rockets have so far been launched,” says the Berlin radio. “Many launching sites have been prepared, which will assure uninterrupted attacks on England. It remains to be seen how England can hold out against the rocket when it is unable to interfere either with its production or the precision of its aim.”