MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—lPrcss Association-—OopyTlslit. LONDON, March 13. Mr 0. J. Stewart, tho Public Trustee, reports that his department (inaugurated on January Ist, 190 S) is self-supporting. The business dealt wdtih. since its establishment has. totalled £38,500,000. The Home Secretary, Mr Winston Churchill.' replying to questions' by Mr MoArtlrar (Conservative member for Kirkdale, Liverpool) concerning a probable ecelesdastdcal procession in the streets, adjacent to Westminster: Oathedral, on the occasion of tho consecration of the struoture next June, said the subject would receive timely and. careful consideration. Mr Green-wood (Li-beral) will, intro- ' duce in the House of Commons a Bill to amend the law .relating to the offence of murder, to enable verdicts of guilty in the first degree 007 guilty in the second degree "to be returned. The international Rugby football match Wales v. Ireland Tvas played at Duhlin. Wales scored, one dropped goal and five tries (19 points) and Jajid a try (three points). . A mass meeting was held at the Kiel dockyards. The workmen demanded the introduction of a short-time system instead of a reduction of hands. fit was stated yesterday that 600 men would bo discharged from tho dockyards next month, owing to the small vote sanctioned by the Eeichstag."| ; M. Geiger, the Argentine Consul at Munich, BavariaJ was killed through an automobile crashing into a tree. His -wife was severely injured, as were also the Paraguayan Consul and the ■chauffeur.

Vinsijak Savarkar, an Indian law student, who landed at Nowhaven recently', has been arrested in London on an extradition warrant issued in India, charging him with sedition. Ho appears at How street Police Court today.

6a.ntain Scott, R.N., is making preparations for his coming South Polar expedition. Ho recently bought at Ghristiania, Norway, sixty Polar isledges and fifty pairs of ski. CALCUTTA, March 14. The Dalai Lama arrived in Calcutta on Saturday, and was driven to Hastings House in the vice-regal earring?, the Viceroy's aides attending the visitor. SYDNEY, March 14. The missing punt from the dredge Ulyssis, which went ashore near Evams rivor on 'Saturday, has turned up with the two men on her, all safe .ADELAIDE. March 14.'' Hector McLean, second engineer of the steamer Strathness, was acquitted' on a charge of murdering a Chinese fireman on th,e vessel about February 18th, by allegedly ill-treating'him. , The London University is convening a Congress of Universities of the Empire, to bo held in London in 1912. Mr Pierponb Morgan has given £75,000 for Karl Ma reel's famous collection of watches and clocks, numbering eighty. A Government inquiry at "Washington shows that the Tobacco Trust since 1897 "lias absorbed or crushed out of existence 163 out of 253 independent factories. Renter's Allahabad correspondent states that Count Demnndre has purchased twelve first-class Australian polo ponies. Ho intends taking them to England. At Freiburg, Saxony, Payne, an English student, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and fined .850 marks for duelling aud resisting arrest. The duel was the sequel to a quarrel in a cafe with a lieutenant. ' The officer drew his sword and Payne struck him. the duel following- The lieutenant has been cashiered-