BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 170, 20 July 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] | THE MAKURA. (Received July 20, 8.38 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. The Union Company's new steamer Makura has been launched on th« Clyde. THE A.M.P. LONDON, July 18, The following have been appointed the London directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society:—Si* Henry Seymour King, chairman; the Earl of Jersey, Mr Herbert Gibbs and Sir John Cockburn. , THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. LONDON, July 19. The late Duke of Devonshire's net personalty, valued > for probate, amounts to £1,075,132. A TURKISH MURDER. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 19. General Ohman Heyda was assassinated in the barracks at Monastic by an officer concerned in the Young Turkey movement. v A GERMAN LOCK-OUT. BERLIN, July 19. The Vulcan Engine-Building Company at Stettin locked out eight thousand men for refusing to comply, with a request to put in one and ahalf hours' overtime. DEPLORABLE LOSS OP LIFE CONSTANTINOPLE, July 19. Two thousand people perished in a flood at Tokat, Asia Minor, including three hundred in the prisons and five hundred Army recruits who were assembled in the courtyard at Government .House. /' INTER-CHURCH AMITY. LONDON, July 19. A large deputation, including the Bishops of Beverley and Hull and the Dean of York, expressed at the Wesloyan Conference tho Anglican Church's sympathy with the aims and purposes' of the "Wesleyans. The Archbishop of York sent ' cordial wishes.