BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LEMOINE'S SECRET. (Received May 9.13 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The City of London and Smiths Bank has handed Lemoine's formula to the Bow Street magistrate, who will transmit it to the Paris magistTate" A NEW STEAMER. LONDON, May %. Howard, Smith and Co.'s 3000-ton steamer Burmah, for the SydneyRockhampton trade, has been launched at Sunderland. THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY. LONDON, May 1. . Replying to the congratulations of the Agents-General on his appointment to the Colonial Office,.the Earl of Crewe promised to do his utmost to promote the interests of the Col°nieS'TOO STIFF FOR SOME. BERLIN, May 1. ' Owino: to many objections to increasing the North German Lloyds subsidy bjr £25,000, the Reichstag has referred the Bill to the Budget Committee. NEW DOCKS FOR LIVERPOOL. LONDON, May 1. There will shortly be commenced at Liverpool new Gladstone Docks, situated to the north of the Hornby Dock. They will cost three millions. THE BURST BOILER TUBE. LONDON, May 1. A third death has resulted from the Britannia accident. A MOORISH AMBUSH. MOROCCO, May 1. A largei body of Moors ambushed and massacred two» French sergeants and several tirailleurs near Ajachtseg, on the Senegal River. FROM SNOW TO FLOODS. LONDON, May, 1. Floods have almost isolated Maidenhead-, Eton anii other "places, x A heat wave succeeded the wintry weather. ■ •, ', i; • A GAME "UP." LONDON, May If; In connection with the ; extensive forgery of French rente coupons, Hill, : a counterfeiter and distributing agent in London, has been arrested, and Miller, the agent in Germany, has been arrested at Wiesbaden.