MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11997, 25 July 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, July 2d. Jabez Wolfe, after swimming and drifting twenty miles, failed to swim the English Channel. He declares that he wiil not attempt the feat again. Doctor Han, an American lawyer, has been sentenced to death at Karlruhe for shooting his mother-in-law at Baden in Nov tiaUr last, in order to obtain her fortune, after telephoning her to meet him. He appealed, and while be was awaiting trial his wife committed suicide at Lake Zurich. The Prince of Walea, pre_.i_ti-.£ v.l the annual meeting of the Royal College and Academy of Muaio, said it was satisfactory to hear of the successful manner in^which the offer of exhibitions had been received in Australia, and that successful exhibitioners would take up their studies in London. At Lord Elgin's request Mr Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, visits East __frica and Uganda during the Parliamentary recess to examine native questions. In the tenth game of thirty rounds in tennis Brookes and Wilding were within a stroke of winning. Gore and Barrett beat Brookes and Wild-ing—3-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 13-11.