AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13465, 11 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Association-Bv -Telegraph-Copyright A GENT ENARiAN. SYDNEY. December 10. Mr John Brown, an inmate of Liverpool Asylum, has died' at the age of 119. I:fe arrived in the . State 87 years ago, anr? had ■ serml'-in the iiavv. . A SHIPPING CLAIM. The owners of the Ingeborg have commenced an action against the owners of the Arawatta,claiming' compensation for the loss of the Ingeborg by collision on August 14th. . 'HOTELS CLOSED.'J lie special.-Cnii>;t closed'nine ihoteb? at Broken Hill under the local option vote.

, ENDOWMENT .-SCHEME. •' MELB OIIRNE, December 10. Mr Thomas Stanford', a. brother of JJelancl . Stanford, .founder of the Leland Stanford University, of California, who has.-lje'en a,, resident, for 47 years, has 'foi niulated a scheme of tndowments to enable v Australian ftaukn's to attend Sta.nfordl University. He will eet aside in his will £50,000, which will yield Gufficient to permit, six or eight students to attend "the University annually. —Detail's of the. scheme will be left in tliei hands of the Universitv trustees.

MR KEIR HARDTE.. ADELAIDE, December 10.

JMi Ken Havdie, although favourably impressed- by what lie has seen of Australia', lwis not, vet been able to pick up any points foijvhis own party. The L,»boiu Pamu m'England, lie constidUs, are more highly organised and more comprehensive than the Australian Labour Parry.