BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] THE STAR OF JAPAN. (Received April 18, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 16. Th salvage captain reports that the Star of Japan, may possibly be saved. A SERIOUS CHARGE. LONDON, April 16. Inspector Yorke believes that Martin, the driver of the Shrewsbury express on October 15, when a disaster involving the loss or several lives occurred, fell asleep at his post. , THE SHUTTERS DOWN AGAIN. LONDON, April 16." The Jenkins Trust Company and the Brooklyn Borough Bank, which were suspended during the crisis in America, have been re-opened. A CASTLE DESTROYED. LONDON, April 16. Monzie Castle, Perthshire, which was tenanted by Mr James Richmond, an Australian, has been burnt. The damage amounts to £23,000. Many art treasures were destroyed. A DISAPPOINTMENT. LONDON, April 16. Professor Dewar explains that the reported solidification of helium by Professor Olives, of Leyden, was due to the fact that the helium treated got mixed with a small percentage of hydrogen; consequently the liquefaction and solidification of helium were not achieved.

THE COLOUR LINE. / OTTAWA, April 16. Sir Wilfrid Laurier refused the Asiatic Exclusion League's demand that Canada should exclude Asiatics by legislation of the Australian pattern. "

SALVATION ARMY COLONISTS. LONDON, April 16. General Booth has announced that, owing to the inadequate response on the part of the British South Africa Company's shareholders to the recent appeal for fresh capital, the company is unable to advance the funds required for the Salvation Army's Rhodesian colonisation project, and the undertaking has been abandoned for the present. ! ~

AMERICA'S* RECOVERY. ■ " NEWiYORK, April 17. _The National City Bank of New York has resumed gold exports by consigning a million dollars to Paris. The reserve in the New York banks is far above the percentage required by law. TUMBLING ON THEIR FEET.

■ LONDON, April 17. The Central News Agency in New York reports that Charles Meredith, a, clown in Cole Brothers' circus, performing in America, and his brother, a clown performing in Australia, have been proved to be the: heirs to the Glasgow estate of Richard Blame, an uncle, which is valued at half a million sterling. V • THE UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, April 18. i The percentage of unemployed in 268 trade unions making returns, with a net membership of 639,716, for March was 6 9-10, compared with 3 3-5 in March, 1907. THE AMERICAN CURRENCY. NEW YORK, April 17. Mr Fowler has introduced into the American House a Bill providing for the 'appointment of a Commission to prepare. a- scientific financial currency system. The Commission is to consist of eleven Senators, eleven members of the House, and twenty-one citizens appointed by President Roosevelt. It is to report in January. MUTINOUS CONVICTS.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 17. Thirteen, prisoners at Tobolsk have been sentenced to death for mutinmg and killing a warder. v NO WONDER ! PARIS, AprU 17. Levy, a meat contractor, has been sentenced at Bar-le-Due to a year r 's imprisonment arid a heavy fine for supplying French troops with diseased and putrid meat. AND WE HAVE ONLY ONE. ' LONDON, April. 17. Jupiter's eighth nioon has been discovered by Greenwich Observatory. A SHEEP-FARMERS' TRUST. NEW YORK, April 17. Four thousand five hundred woolgrowers in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona are forming a trust, with a capital of twenty millions sterling, hoping to be able to dictate terms to the eastern. mills.