BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 248, 19 October 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] THE AMERICANS \N JAPAN. TOKIO, Oct. 18. Admiral Sperry's Fleet has reached Yokohama. • „,-,■ DEATH OF GENERAL NODZUTOKIO, Oct. 18. The death is announced of Genera* Nodzu, of Russo-Japanese War tame, aged 64. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. LONDON, Oct. 17. Mr George Gilbert Murray has been appointed Regius Professor of GreeKat Oxford. WINDOW INSURANCE. LONDON, Oct. 18. Big West End firms are insuring: against the risk of damage through, unemployed riots. COST OF THE COTTON STRIKE. LONDON, Oct. 17. The Daily Mail states that the cotton strike threw idle tour hundre<T thousand operatives, and' caused a loss of 3& millions sterling. MR ROOSEVELT'S HUNT. NEW YORE, Oct. 17. Mr Roosevelt, after his African' trip, will visit England early in 1910. His wile will join him at Khartoum, on the journey northwards. THE CLANRICARDE ESTATES. LONDON, Oct. 18. The Irish Estates Commissioners, are compulsorily acquiring one. thousand eight hundred acres of Lord Clanricarde's estate in Galway. FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD.: VICTORIA, Oct. 18. The town of Fernit, British. Colum-' bia, which was recently destroyed by bush fires, is rising rapidly from the ashes. All the permanent buildingswill have been re-erected before Christmas. THE NEW BRITISH ARMY. LONDON, Oct. 17. Mr Haldane, Secretary of State fof: War, speaking at Caternam, said that the Territorials now numbered two hundred thousand, and recruiting- was steadily proceeding. The Army had! never been more effective than at the present- time.

PAPER FROM MAIZE STRAW.

LONDON, Oct. 18

The Times's Washington correspondent reports that experiments made by the Agricultural Department show, that the use of maize straw for the purpose of making paper pulp is satisfactory. It is improbable that maize straw pulp will oust wood, but it may check a further rise in the price of paper. |