VARIOUS CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 14368, 15 March 1910, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES.

MORGAN'S CURIOS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Mar. 13. Pierpont Morgan has given £75*000 for Karl Marsel's famous collection of watches and clocks. EMPIRE UNIVERSITY CONGRESS. LONDON, Mar. 13. The London University authorities are convening a congress of universities of the Empire in London in 1911. LONDON'S WATER SUPPLY. LONDON 7 , Mar. 13. The Water Board proposes a scheme which will cost £6,200,000 sterling to supply London till 1941, when four hundred and twenty million gallons per day may be required, which will provide thirty-five gallons per day for twelve million people. The'new works will necessitate an intake upon the Thames above Staines. PUNISHED FOR DUELLING. BERLIN, Mar. 13. Payne, an English student at Freiberg, in Saxony, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment and fined 850 marks for fighting a duel and resisting arrest. The affair originated over a quarrel in a cafe with a lieutenant in the army. The lieutenant drew his sword ; Payne struck him, and the duel followed. The lieutenant was cashiered.

ACQUITTED. ADELAIDE, Mar. 14. McLean, the marine engineer, who was charged with having murdered a Chinese fireman (who, it was alleged, was severely beaten and died of his injuries) has been acquitted. MISSING MEN SAFE. SYDNEY, Mar. 14. The punt belonging to the dredge Ulysses*, which was yesterday reported missing with two men aboard, has drifted ashore. The men are safe. DUEZ'S DEFALCATIONS. PARIS, Mar. 13. The examining magistrate who has charge of the Dues case, has discovered that 150 persons belonging to the political world and the press were bribed under a false name by Duess, who refuses to disclose the names. Martin, formerly Duez's assistant, has been arrested on a charge of complicity in the liquidation scandals. ECCLESIASTICAL PROCESSION'S. LONDON, Mar. 13. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, replying to Mr McArthur, said that questions connected with ecclesiastical processions in the streets adjacent to Westminster Cathedral on the consecration next June would receive timely and careful consideration.