BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 9, 11 January 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GIVEN TO THE CHURCH. (Received Jan. 11, 9.37 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. Mr Ernest Jardine, the purchaser of Glastonbury Abbey, has presented it to the Church of England. THE MOTOR 'BUSMEN'S STRIKE. LONDON, Jan. 10. Eight hundred motor 'busmen have been dismissed on refusing to resume duty. UTILISING HELIGOLAND. ■; BERLIN, Jan. 10. The Reichstag Budget Committeevoted li millions sterling for harbour constructions at Heligoland, after hearing a confidential statement as to the reason for the constructions. ADA CROSSLEY. LONDON, Jan. 10. Mr J. C. Williamson has engaged Madame Ada Crossley to tour with a concert party Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand in September. A BIG SWINDLE. PARIS, Jan. 10. M. Lemoine, an engineer, has been' arrested at Paria on a charge of swindling a South African mining magnate of £64,000, pretending that he was able to manufacture diamonds. GETTING OUT OF PUBLIC LIFE. LONDON, Jan. 10. Mr W. A. McArthur has resigned his directorship of the Bank of Australia. AN EX-CHAMPION. , LONDON, Jan. 10. H. L. Doherty has decided to compete in this year's lawn tennis. CHARGED WITH MURDER. ' ; CAPETOWN, Jan. 10. Sheridan, a strike leader, has been arrested at Johannesburg on a charge of murder arising out of the dynamite outrages which occurred during last summer's strike.