BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 227, 25 September 1907, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.]

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN TREATY.

(Received Sept. 25, 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 24

Ratifications of the Anglo-Russian Convention nave been exchanged with St. Petersburg.

NOT THE THING

BERLIN, Sept. 24

A Japanese engineer, supposed to be employed at the Tokio gasworks, has been arrested at Jena on a charge of offering bribes to obtain plans of the machinery of the Schott gasworks.

A BIG PROVINCE

OTTAWA, Sept. 24

The Ungava district, embracing 350,000 square miles, between the Labrador coast and Hudson's Bay, has been added to the province of Quebec, making it the largest province in the Dominion.

SOCIALISTS OUTVOTED. OTTAWA, Sept. 24

The Labour Congress at Winnipeg, by a majority of twelve, rejected the Socialists' proposal favouring the collective ownership of all the means of livelihood.

THE SWISS MILITARY SYSTEM

LONDON, Sept. 24

The Tribune states that Lord Roberts is about to visit Lausanne, where he intends to make a thorough study of the Swiss military system.

GERMANY AND TAHITI

BERLIN, Sept. 24

The North German Gazette complains of the currency given to the false reports of Germany's designs on Tahiti. It admits that a German cruiser is constantly at Tahiti, where the German Chief Justice of Samoa is conducting ethnographical studies.

THE NIGERIAN OILFIELDS. LAGOS, Sept. 24

The development of the immense oilfields of Nigeria is proceeding rapidly.

FOR USE BY THE NAVY

LONDON, Sept. 24

The Admiralty is constructing a. four million-gallon oil fuel reservoir at Plymouth, and also an oil depot at Medway.

NEW STEAMERS

LONDON, Sept. 24

The Lund steamship line is building two 7000-ton steamers at Belfast and Aberdeen.

The White Star line is building a--12,000-ton vessel at Belfast for the Australian trade.

SEVENTY FISHING-BOATS WRECKED. ST. JOHNS, Sept. 24

Seventy fishing-vessels.were lost off the coast of Newfoundland in the' storm of which news was cabled on? the 20th.

A MARCONI SCHEME

QUEBEC, Sept. 24

Mr Marconi states that he will' shortly inaugurate a system of commercial wireless telegrams from Nova Scotia to Europe at fivepence per" word, and that the system will beable to transmit twenty words per" minute.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

ATHENS, Sepf. 24

Three youths have been arrested a£ Patras for firing upon and slightly" wounding an officer of the British naval squadron. They stated that they saw a man with his head covered by a handkerchief approaching their flock, and, thinking him a robber, fired with the object of frightening him.

HYGIENE CONGRESS

BERLIN, Sept. 24

Thirty-six countries are represented! in an Hygiene Conference which hag opened here.

THE PATROCLUS

LONDON, Sept. 24. The Patroclus has been berthed in Portland harbour.