VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 18 March 1910, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN.

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A MONETARY AVINDFALL

SYDNEY, March 17.— Marshall, a woi king man of Lithgow, lias come in for a windfall. His uncle, the late Senator, a member of Marshall Stewart and Company, shipbuilders,, Glasgow, has made him chief beaficiary of property valued at £40,000.

RIG PRIZE MONEY. SYDNEY, March 17—The Rifle Association offers £5300 prize money for the next meeting, whereof £IOOO, besides trophies, is set aside for the King’s Prize.

THE COMMONWEALTH’S NAVY. MELBOURNE, March 17.—Mr Doakin announces that a contract for an armoured cruiser, which will be the flagship; of the Commonwealth fleet, has been let to John Brown and Company, of Glasgow, to be completed in two years.

LONDON, March 16.—John Brown and Coy and the Clyde-bank—Fairfield Company (Govan) have each contracted for the Australasian battleships.

AUSTRALIAN NATIVES ASSOCIATION.

MELBOURNE, March 17.—The Aus tralian Natives Association has adopted a resolution in favour of the Government’s defence policy, but one against borrowing money to carry out the proposals; also recommending the establishment of an Australian Navy League.

PECULIAR DEATHS. PERTH, 51 arch 17.—Two well known graziers in Wyndham district died under peculiar circumstances. John McKenzie shot himself when drawing a revolver from a .saddlebag and Sam Muggletou was found unconscious on a bush track and succumbed.

CARDINAL MORAN’S SILVER JUBILEE.

SYDNEY, March 17.—The Roman Catholic laity presented Cardinal Moran with £2500 in recognition of his services, and to mark his silver jubilee in Australia.

THE LATE MR ARMYTAGE. MELBOURNE, March 17—At the inquest on Armytage, the coroner perused a letter left by deceased and addressed to the secretary of the Mel-

bourne Club, which referred to the disappointment of the deceased at not receiving an appointment in the War Office, w Inch he was anxious to secure. The rest of the letter referred to the disposal of deceased’s effects and showed that he had contemplated suicide. The coroner remarked that Mr Armytage was in the prime of life, and had everything that he could desire—youth, wealth and health, but just one thing was wanted that deceased could not get and that drove him to commit suicide. A verdict was returned that there was nothing to _show the state of deceased’s mind at the time.