BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1906, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] LOOPING THE LOOP. (xteceived March 15, 8.47 a.m.) LONDON, March 14

A jury awarded a girl injured in looping the loop at Sunderland £250 damages. Mr Justico Darling held that an agreement relieving the proprietress of. the theatre in the event of injury was worthless, because it was against public policy. He commented on.the inconsistency of a country forbidding bull-fights and tolerating feats likely to involve mutilation or death.

GENERAL BOOTH'S IMMIGRANTS

OTTAWA, March 14

Canadian Government officials are highly pleased with General Booth's Kensington immigrants, whom they consider first-class.

THE EXODUS FROM THE COUNTRY.

NEW YORK, March 14

Twenty thousand tenantless farms are for sale in New York State owing to the expansion of business in the towns denuding the rural districts of their population.

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS AND SENTIMENT.

LONDON, March 14

Sir John Forrest, Federal Treasurer, speaking at a.private function, quoted trade statistics to show Australia's sustained progress for a period of years. He was cheered on declaring that he had never heard a speaker in Australia say a disloyal word about the Motherland Avithout being hooted and howled down.