BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Grey River Argus, 9 October 1905, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

MOSCOW UNIVERSITY CLOSED. (per press association.) " St Petersburg, Oct 5. The Moscow University has been closed owing to the mass meeting of reformers having been held therein of persons not connected with the institution. REDISTIBUTION|IN ENGLAND. London, Oct 5. In the course of a'speech at Leeds Mr Gerald Balfour expressed the hope that the report of the committee on redistribution would be available by the end of the month. It would then be submitted to a' large commission and the bill would be ready for the opening of Parliament. A SWIMMER SUSPENDED. LONDON, October 5. The Amateur Swimming Association suspended Billington for a fortnight pending the production of correspon* dence respecting his swimming on the Seine with professionals on September 10th. FRENCH CRUISER BREAKS UP HONGKONG, Octobers. The French cruiser Fullk, which foundered at Tonkin, has broken in two, the stern sinking in deep water. AMERICAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES' METHODS, LONDON, October 6. Reuter reports that the New York Insurance Investigation Committee elicited the fact that during eleven years 1,600,000 dollars were paid as commission to Robert McCurdy, a son of the president of the New York xMutnal Life Society. RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE'S MARRIAGE. ST PETERSBURG, October 6. The G-rand Duke Cyril, of Russia, was secretly married to the ex Grand Duchess Hesse at Munich.