BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 25 June 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CRICKET. (Received June 25, 8.33 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. In the County cricket championship, Middlesex beat Notts. Tarrant scored 103 for Middlesex. SLEEPING SICKNESS. LONDON, June 24. The British Government is about to send fresh commissioners to Lake Victoria Nyanza and Uganda to study sleeping sickness. A COLONIAL GATHERING. LONDON, June 24. Two thousand guests attended a conversazione held by the Colonial Institute, including many Colonial I Bishops, Governors and Agents-Gen-eral ' OXFORD UNIVERSITY. LONDON, June 24. Nearly £100,000 has been subscribed in response to Lord Curzon*s appeal, made in May last, to raise a quarter of a million sterling to endow new professorships at Oxford. CANADIAN CATTLE. LONDON, June 24. In the House of Commons, replying to a question, Sir Edward iStrachey stated that the Board of Agriculture, which he represents in the Lower House, did not intend to remove the embargo placed on the importation of Canadian cattle. OPENING UP CANADA. LONDON, June 24. Reuters Ottawa correspondent states that a Bill has been introduced into the Dominion House offering settlers 28,800,000 acres between Goosejaw and Calgary at three dollars per acre, the proceeds to be devoted to the creation of a fund for the construction of the railway to Hudson Bay. ,