BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 102, 1 May 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] THE BRITISH BUDGET. (deceived May 1, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 30 Mr Asquith will declare the Budget on Thursday next. ETNA IN ERUPTION. ROME, April 30. Mount Etna is in active eruption, j and presents a splendid spectacle. THE BRITANNIA EXPLOSION. LONDON, April 30. , Two deaths' resulted from tile explosion aboard H.M.S. Britannia. THE EXHIBITION. LONDON, April 30. It has been definitely decided that the Prmce of Wales shall open the Franco-British Exhibition on the 14th. * PORTUGAL'S BOY KING. LISBON, April 30. King Manuelv in a pathetic speech at the opening of the Cortes, referred to his'father's terrible martyrdonv. l RIOTING IN ANNAM. CALCUTTA, April 30. Serious native riots are taking place in Annam, headed by antiFrench representatives of the educated class. , CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. > LONDON, April 30., Luxemburg, a British subject who Was seized at Odessa and imprisoned, claims £10,000 from Russia for false imprisonment. SIR 4NTON V MACDONNELL. ...i LONDON, April 30. It is announced that Sir Antony MacDonnell, Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, will shortly 4 retire with a peerage. GERMAN TRADE DEPRESSION. , « BERLIN, April 30. Owing to severe depression^ in trade in Germany, unemployment is general in almost all industries. A LESSON FOR BRITAIN. . BERLIN, April 30. The German Navy League has reached a membership of upwards of a million. The organ cjrcufates 375,----000 copies. V . ... FLOODS IN MOSCOW. i MOSCOW, April 30. \ One-fifth,of Moscow has been inundated for several days. There are fifty thousand sufferers, and the damage is estimated at three millions sterling. \ • ELECTRIC STRAWBERRIES. ::,: , P^RIS, April 30:; v Strawberries grown by m^ans, of electricity are the latest, dainty in Paris: The fruit is forced; "by electric currents. The berries are excellent in flavour and of large size. ■'. AN ANGXb-AMERICAN;<ALLI-;' • ! .' ANCE. : ' •-,""■■. ..,-■ . LONDON, April 30V The Earl of Dudley's brother, the Hon. John Ward, is engaged to Jean, daughter of Mr Whitelaw Reid, the jLmerican Ambassador in London. EXTEND ENG THE EMP (fi E. -■ LONDON, April 30. Britain Is negotiating for the acquisition of Kelantar, Trengganu, Kedab and portions of Rahman and Pifcaui. on tha Malay Peninsula. Kedah contains "<i "strip1 of "valuable tin land. , ... : : X STOCKBROKER'S SUICIDE. NEW YORK, April 30. Charles Coster, a wealthy New York stockbroker; committed suicide ofter losing two hundred thousand sterling of his iirin's money in desperate efforts to retrieve losses sustained in October panic. • NEW SERVICE TO QUEENSLAND; X % LONDON, April 30. 1 Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, is : inviting tenders by' t July 15 for a combined passenger and | cargo service to Brisbane, calling at | Thursday Island, Townsville and Rdck-( haffiptoaa, via Torres Straits. ; THE SHIPBUILDING CRISI^ ;v;' J\ ■■;'. ,;. London, April 3d. i Sir lEdward Grey, Secretary of [State for Foreign Affairs, speaking ! ,9,i a, reception to the cricketer HardStaff by his fellow townsmen at Kirby-in-Ashfield, said that the Board of Trade vas again' endeavouring to &o-ert a, shipbuilding lock-out. PROTECTING TRIPOLI. , ROME, April 30. Signor Pellegrim', who was Secretary to Signor, Zanardalli during the latter's Premiership in Italy, has published statements alleging that Signor Zanardalli .secured the sanction of Britain, France, Germany and Austria to the ultimate establishment of a protectorate in Tripoli. GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC, : BERLIN, April 30. The Federal Council has sanctioned the Bill for increasing the North German Lloyd's subsidy. The preamble to the Bill states that a general ten per rant, ad valorem duty will shortly be jpftrcduced into New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Carelines. .