BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 176, 27 July 1907, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

tPBJESS ASSOCIATION.] THE BRUSSELS SUGAR CONVENTION. (Received July 27, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 26. At a meeting of the Permanent.lnternational Sugar Committee, held yesterday, there were indications that the signatory Governments were desirous to find a solution which will allow Britain to remain a party to the Brussels Convention. RIFLE-SHOOTING IN SCHOOLS. LONDON, July 26. The Board of Education has stopped rifle-shooting at the Eynsford and Shoreham public elementary schools. AN UNPOPULAR AGREEMENT. NEW YORK, July 26. The Protective Tariff Association denounce the- American-German agreement as contrary to law and the policy of; protection, unfair to the American importer and demoralising to the Customs, besides being an infringement of the rights of the legislature. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 26,7 The Rev. J. Scott Lidgett has been eelcted president of the Wesleyan Conference. ATTEMPTED MURDER. LONDON, July 26. Smith has been sentenced to servitude for life, and and Churchill, alias ' 'Chicago May,'' to 15 years'imprisonment for attempting to murder a man named Guerin in June last. \