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A NEW GERMAN PET. GIFT TO UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE.

POPULARISING THE CAT CULT

IN BERLIN..

The spectacle of a cat, two

GRANTS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Further gifts, totalling £118,178, Three prisoners--two or them squirrels, three rats, and a sprink deserters from the Army-escapeding of chickens living in harmony have been made by the Rockefeller. from the police court at Gravesend together in a cage at the first cat Foundation to University College, last month by smashing through show ever held in Berlin, has London. The gifts comprise.

caused a writer in one of the more a thick glass roof.

aeridly pessimistic Nationalist £26,000 for the endowment of Gunner Sullivan, of Woolwich, papers to hope that, after all, the Department of Pharmacology. of £98,178 to form a further en- was outrun in the street and re-something may yet come captured by a court constable, Locarno. The show, apart from a dowment fund for the Depart- but Gunner Thomas Davis, also of certain catholicity of exhibits, is ments of Anatomy and Physiology. Woolwich, and Arthur Leslie West itself something unique for n

The large amount is a supple- are still being hunted by police in country that has hitherto looked motor-cars and on cycles.

upon the cat as a creature made mentary gift to that of 1921. Both The men are believed to be rid-to earn its living by catching mice gifts are towards the £500,000 In the cellars of concierges and und being raised in connexion ing stolen bicycles, as two ma-night-porters. This is an effort with the centenary of the college, chines were reported missing soon to popularise an animal whose to meet urgent needs for further hablts do not suit a nation of flat-endowment, and for buildings and During the sitting of the Court dwellers in circles which have equipment. a sound of crashing glass was hitherto refused to notice It-the of the "middle-and; heard from the cells, and it was great mass found that the men had disappear- lower classes." ed from the corridor where they had been waiting after they had been dealt with.

after the escape.

Gas Pipe Climb.

It was found that the hanging hinged flap of one of the cell peep- holes had been wrenched off. Ap- parently one of the men clambered on to a window-sill, pulling the other two up after him.

From here they climbed up some gas pipes and succeeded in clam bering on lo a water eistern im mediately under the thick flat glass

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Only a few members of the fashionable and artistic sets of Germany's great citles have as yet. Lacquired beautiful specimens; the majority of the exhibits have come from other countries..

On June 18 the total was £117,- 440, which included about £43,000 contributed by past and present students.

The Senate and the University College Committee have adopted. resolutions expressing thir appre ciation of the action of the Foundation.

It will be recalled that a muni-

But the really interesting ex- hibits for cat-lovers of other coun- fries are the typce proudly shown ficent grant from the Rockefeller These Foundation in May this year was by Germane themselves. would certainly have had no responsible for London University chance of an entry in any cat securing the Bloomsbury site for fancying country. Here is the its new home. mother, quite undistinguished in

A limited grant was made by the appearance, of one "Peter," who could talk in so human a fashion Government but the Rockefeller Then, using the iron hasp of the that he appeared at circusses and grant, while not officially disclosed, beephole as a handle, they smash said "Hallo," instead of "Miaou," was stated to be between £300,000 ed the glass and, scrambling quité distinctly. Peter died and £100,000.

In 1923 the Foundation gaye through, found themselves on the short while ago, but his throat and

£1,200,000 for new. buildings, roof at the rear of the cells, from vocal chords are here, preserved whence they slid down to a side in alcohol. But the animal who equipment and endowments at alley

will do most to popularise his apo- cies is not alive at all. It is the Unversity College Hospital. During the afternoon the police stuffed black and white one who received a telephone message that refused all food when his master The two escaped men were believed died, and died of grief and inant-

to have been seen on the Watlington in little more than a week GOLF BY LAMPLIGHT, street-road. They were said to be

certifiente.

iding bicycles and hanging en be-afterwards, a fact attested to by hind a motur-lorry travelling to- wards London.

Another report stated that the roen had also been seen on the top of Strood Hill making towards London,

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FOR AUSTRALIA."

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YOUNG BRISBAND ARCHI- TECT WINS ROME PRIZE.

For the first time in its history, the Blue Riband of architecture has been won by Australia.

£3,000 DAMAGES FOR JOCKEY'S FAMILY.

KILLED "WHEN EARNING

£10,000 A YEAR.; :

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PLAYER BEATS ENDURANCE

RECORD.

Playing throughout the night by the aid of acetylene lamps, Mr. W. Bruce Sutherland of Edinburgh, has beaten the golf endurance' re- cord set up by Mr. H. B. Lumsden in June 1910,

of

Mr. Lumsden started at 2.20 in the morning and completed 12 The death of Michael Tighe, the rounds Balgowrie, course.. steeplechase jockey, in a motor ac- Aberdeen, finishing at 9 a.m. after cident on the Brighton road on playing 216 holes. December 16 last. was recalled in the King's Bench Division in mail week, when his widow obtained 23.000 and costs in settlement of her action for damages.

Mrs. Mabel Tighe, the widow, Worthing. of Southcourt-road,

children.

The Reme scholarship for 1027 brought the action on her own be has been awarded to Mr. Roberthalf and behalf of her five Percy Cummings, 26, a native of Brisbane, who came to this coun- try with "Wattle League" archi-1 tectural scholarship He also won the Archibald Dawnay scholarship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

There were five defendunts:

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Mr. Sutherland. at Craiglock-.. hart, started at 8.15 in the evening this time he completed 14 full and played for 23 hours. rounds-252 holes-beating Luma- den's record by two rounds.

480-MILE RACE ON FOOT.

"MAD BULL" WINS BY TEN MILES.

Robert Leach, of Florence-road, Brixton; William Golf, of St. Law- Worthing; Revi nald Parsons, of the Central Hotel The Henry Jarvis studentship Garage; Worthing: John de Vere goes to Mr. Harald Thornley Dyer, Naunton, of Bulkington-avenue,

"Mad Bull." a Karock Indian 22, a native of St. Austell, Corn-Worthing: and Arthur Soar, of

runner, finished the Redwood wall, and a student of London Uni-Westdown-road, Catford. versity.

Mr. Thorn Drury, K.C. for the Highway Marathon of 480 miles Winner of the Rome scholarshin plaintiffs, said at the time of his ten miles ahead of "Flying Cloud." in engraving, Mr. Frederick (death. Tighe was earning over his nearest rival, and 30 miles Austin, 25. follows in the footsteps £10,000 a year. The action had ahead of "Melika," a Zuni Indian, of his brother, Mr. Robert S. Abeen settled on an agreement that who finished third.

tin, who gained the award in 1922

A native of Leicester, he studied

at the Leicester College, and at the Royal College of Art.

"Mad Bull" thus wins the prize Mrs. Tighe would receive £1,500 and the remainder would be in- of £200.

The runners left San Francisco vested for the children.

Ench of the defendants had on June 14. Of the 11-original agreed to pay a certain amount, startera four fell out on the way. Mad Bull was in the field for and his lordship made an order.

The scholarships are worth $25 a year for two years, and are ten-accordingly, the money for the 182 hours, but some of this time

was spent resting. able at the British School ut.Rome. infants to be paid into court

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