BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14156, 16 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

f Pr«J3 Awociatioii-By Telagraph-Copy right i LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. LONDON, March 14. Viscount Midleioji, on behalf of the Moderates, proposed to hold, a conferi once with the Progressives with tits ; object of ridding the London County i Council of party government. The Progressives have declined to hold a conference, and the Moderates decided i to select all ten aldermen. | CHINA AND TIBET. i Chipa's interference in Tibet is due | to the Daiai Lama sending envoys to ; St. Petersburg. The Chinese Government proposes to separate the ecclesiastical and political functions at Lhassa, and deprive the Pontificate of the latter. PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. Mr Stewart, the Public Trustee, re- | ports that the Department is self-sup- ; porting. The business dealt with since the establishment of the office amounts to £-38,500,000. FLYING MACHINES. An exhibition of aerial machines at Olymnia is attracting much attention, i All makers are showing specimens of j their work. | LONDON'S WATER. SUPPLY. I The London Water Board proposes a scheme, which will cost £62,000,000, to j supply London till 1941 (when 420,000,- ; 000 gallons per day may be required), ; and which will provide 35 gallons per day for twelve million people. The new works will necessitate an iptake upon the Thames above Staines.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPEDITION. Captain Scott has bought at Christiania sixty sledges for use in his polar expedition and fifty paii'3 of snowshoes (ski). LADY DUDLEY. Lady Dudley passed a good pight, and is progressing satisfactorily. . "WHIST DRIVES STOPPED. The London police have stopned the weekly whist "drives" which it was the custom to hold in city restaurants on Saturday nights. Hundreds of players were disappointed last Satur day. THE DUEZ EMBEZZLEMENTS. PARIS, March 14. Tlie examining magistrate who has charge of tlie Duez case discovered that 150 persons belonging to the political world and press were bribed under a false name by Duez. The latter refuses to disclose the names. Martin, formerly his assistant, has been arrested on a charge of complicity in the liquidation scandals. A Router's telegram states that it is one Martin Gautier, not Martin tlie assistant of Duez, who has been arrested. He had a luxurious suite in a deserted Parisian convent, where orgies were held nightly till the neighbours complained. Gautier kept five separata establishments in the city under assumed names. OLD AGE PENSIONS. The Senate has decided that only wage-earners receiving less than £l2O per annum shall bo eligible for pensions. The Government- had proposed to make tho limit .-SICO. QUARREL AND DUEL. BERLIN, March 13. Mr Payne, an English student at Freiberg, in Saxcny. has been sentenced to four mo--ihs' imprisonment., and fined 850 marks for fighting a duel and resisting arrest. Thtf affair originated over a quarrel in a. cafe with a lieutenant in the army, who drew his sword. Payne struck him and a duel followed. The lieutenant was cashiered. ALSACE-LORRAINE. Received 10 p.m., March loth. BERLIN, March 15. In the Reichstag, the Chancellor announced a Bill for developing AlsaceLorraine, and extending its political independence.