CABLEGRAM?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13209, 16 February 1905, Page 7

CABLEGRAM?

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Press Associatiqn-By Telegraph-Copyright. rk \ " ' ie HANDSOME REQUESTS. 1(1 LONDON, February 14. It (Received Feb. 15, at 9,14 a.m.) ><1 Tho late Mr James 11. Luckings, 7 formerly of South Australia, bequeathed £IG'J,OOO to Nonconformist clwritics and '•j over 30 London hospitals. A DISAPPOINTING FIND. The supposed'will which, after the lapse of a, hundred years, fell from a picture 1 flame, and was said' to bequeath !}' £1)000,000 to a poor family named lushey, turns out to be a lease. 5t FRENCH SUiwIAMNES. ,s I'ARIS, February 15. s. (Received Feb. 15, at 9.32 p.m.) >£ Three French submarines succiededi in ll giving when steaming over eight knots, j ' THE SAXONY SCANDAL. . d BERLIN, February 15. (Received Feb. 15, at 9.32 p.m.) n The Countess of Montignoso offers to is surrender her daughter -Monica to her n father, the Crown Prince of Saxony, if 0 allowed to see all her children at 'fixed 0 times. t, . ■ 1 INTERCOLONIAL. e _ Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. r HEAVY RAINFALL. r SYDNEY, February 15. (Received Feb. 15, at 10.15 a.m.) 6 Two inches of rain' fell in Sydney iind 9 three inches in the suburbs in two hoars » last night. i CRUISERS FOR SALE. 0 (Received Feb. 16, at 1.10 a.m.) 1 The Admiralty has decided to place the , Rin<;arooiua, Ivarrakatta, and Boomerang i on the sale list. I THE RABBIT 'NUISANCE, j Communications received by :;he Goviivn--1 ment from the Pasteur Institute, Paris, state that two kinds of virus that, will meet all requirements for the destruction : of rabbits are nearly ready. j FATAL PLAGUE CASE. , A fatal case of plague has occurred at • Ballina. ' THE WR-M4V OF THE MAYIFIELD. LAUNOKSTON, February 15. (Received Feb. 15, at 11.8 p.m.) The officers of the barque May field, which went ashore on Swan Island, wero exonerated. There was no evidence to. show on what rock the- vessel struck, PLAGUE IN BRISBANE. • BRISBANE, February ]5. (Received Feb. 15, at 9.30 a.m.) Two fresh eases of plague were reported this weelf.