BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 18 April 1906, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS. (Received April 18, 9.30 a.m.) ATHENS, April 17. King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Athens congratulated Mr Bosanr quet, head of the British School of Archaeology, on the discovery of the temple of Artemis on the banks of the river Eurotas.

UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE. LONDON, April 17. The "Times" publishes a two-and-a-half-column letter which Mr Hen-niker-Hcaton addressed to Mr Bux- ] ton, Postmaster-General, arguing in I favor of universal penny postage. REMEDYING ABUSES. NEW YORK, April 17. The New York State Legislature passed drastic Bills permitting policyholders in life-insurance companies to act as directors even if not stockholders, and prohibiting corporations from making political contributions. TEACHERS' CONFERENCE. LONDON, April 17. Two thousand delegates, representing 57,000 of the National Union of Teachers, are holding a conference at Scarborough. Mr Sykes, the president, expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the abolition of religious tests for teachers. He believed that parents were satisfied with the Government's retention of the Cowper-Temple clause with regard to teaching. EARLY CLOSING. LONDON, April 17. A conference of shop assistants' unions, meeting at London, adopted a draft Bill making early closing compulsory. THE EQUITABLE LIFE SOCIETY. NEW YORK, April 17. Mr Paul Morton, President, states that although 17,385 policies in the Equitable Life Company lapsed owing to the recent disclosures, holders are now applying for reinstatement at the rate of two hundred daily. THE PARIS POSTMEN'S STRIKE. PARIS, April 17. The postmen's strike at Paris has fizzled out. GERMANY IN THE EAST. SINGAPORE, April 17. It is stated at Singapore that a German firm has acquired a commercial coaling -station at Pulalant Island, south-east of Dutch Borneo. A SUBSIDISED SPY. BERLIN, April 17. It has traiispired that Zanaida Smoljaninoff, recently sentenced for espionage at Leipzig, received £2000 sterling annually for five years from the Russian Government. THE GAMBLING CRAZE. NEW YORK, April 17. The churches in New York are threatening to prosecute the Jockey Club owing to the epidemic of gambling. The Club, on the first day of' the season, cut the wires connecting Belmqnt Park with a hundred pool rooms. All local bets were declared off. GERMAN SPYING METHODS. ALGIERS, April 17. Three German explorers, with fifty Moorish horsemen escorting them, made an extensive tour along the coast on the western side of the Algerian frontier.