BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 177, 29 July 1907, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[pbess association.] A MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH. (Received July 29 9.11 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 28. . Mr Erbacher, a young American milionaire, was killed in New Jersey yesterday while motoring. VENEZUELA TURNS CRUSTY. CARACAS, July 28. Venezuela refuses to arbitrage respecting asphalt concessions granted to Americans. • A HUGE COMET. ■;/■■":'" LONDON, July 28. M.Flammarion, the French astronomer, states that a comet with seven tails, one seven miles long, is approaching ih& earth, and is now one hundred million miles from it. The comet is visible early in the morning, under the Pleiades. ANOTHER " DREADNOUGHT." ; ■;';;... LONDON, July 28. The warship Bellerophon, a sistership to the Dreadnought, has been launched at Portsmouth. A FORTUNE WASTED. I; July 28. Sir Humphrey dVTrafford has beeen declared a bankrupt. He expended half a million sterling in eighteen years in racing and horse-breeding. CRICKET. LONDON, July 28. In the County cricket match, Nottingham, which has won every match so far this season, defeated Middlesex by 13 runs. This is Middlesex's first reverse,,- '-■ ■ ■~-.■ v .-, THE MOTOR-STEEPLECHASE. ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. , Prince/ Borghese, the leading compe- i titor in the Pekin-to-Paris motorsrace, has reached Moscow: