THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15822, 22 July 1913, Page 5

THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

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. , LONDON, July 20. , During a cricket match at Hammerton a batsman lost his grip of the bat, which slipped, from hJ6 hands and struck a child, killing it instantly.'

The proposed site of the new London University at Bloomsbury, behind tEe British Museum, is offered for £375,000. The Duke of Bedford, who owns the land, has promised to contribute £25,000. The Duke of Beaufort has placed Chepstow Castle at the disposal of a kinema firm for the purpose of producing Scott's " Ivanhoe." The ruined battlements and ivy -covered walls will in all '-probability ensure, its success. An/important Medical Congress has been opened at Brighton to consider the effect on' health of sea water and sea air, what ailments bathing is likely to benefit, and to what extent bathers may suffer from oveT-indulgenee during a warm summer.

A large amount of South African assurance in connection with riots continues to be placed on the London market, not only of mining, but of property of every description. . I

The Times says that the revolt in China should decide whether China will be subjected to a strong centralised control, whether the provinces will be a law unto themselves, or whether Peking or Canton shall direct the destinies of the new Republic,

Some interesting additions have been, made to the collection at the Historical Medical Museum. These objects include the shirt, garters, and drawers worn by Charles I. on the scaffold. They are marked with his cypher and stained with his blood. There is also a winding-sheet, a watch, and a lock of hair that was cut off when the body was exhumed at Windsor in 1813. (Received July 21, at 7.20 p.m.) The officials of the Bank of England declare that woman clerks are inefficient owing to having insufficient food. A typical luncheon for an antemic woman is tea and a half-buttered scone. The officials urge that meat is necessary in place of cakes and jam. The Chamber of Commerce report states that 75 per cent, of schoolboys fail in handwriting. In a test case brought as the result of a woman running up bills to the amount of £800, with the object of spiting her husband, the Judge at Westminster decided that the r-usband was not liable for such extravagance. A ballot by the General Labourers' Union is largely against devoting the funds to political purposes. BERLIN, July 20. TKe arrangements made for the Prince of Wales to inspect an airship model have been cancelled on the ground that such inspection would endanger German interests.

The fact that the Kaiser is spending a holiday in Norway is interpreted as a sign that he expects complications' in the Balkans. PARIS, July 20. M. Bleriot has invented an appliance to enable aeroplanes to start in mid-air without touching the ground. ST. PETERSBURG, July 20. The authorities have suppressed three Labour daily papers on the grounds that their violent party character obviously has a harmful influence on the masses. ■ WASHINGTON, July 10. It is reported that President Wilson, alarmed at the Mexican and Japanese crises, has practically decided to abandon the Munroe doctrine and to request Britain to arrange a settlement of the Californian-Japanese land dispute. It is further alleged that Britain, Germany, and France will be allowed to enter Mexico to protect their countrymen- and collect debte, but that they will not be allowed to acquire territory..