BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] INDEPENDENT BULGARIA. April 26, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 24. Britain and France have recogi nised Bulgaria's independence.

AN ANNUAL SERVICE

LONDON, April 2<L The Prince and Princess of Wales< attended the annual service in the*- / chapel of St. Michael and St. Georget in St. Paul's Cathedral. _ The Right/ Rev. Dr Montgomery dedicated a new] reredos.

GERMAN LOANS

LONDON, April 25. Twenty-four millions sterling worth] of Prussian Consols and a £16.000,000 German Imperial loan are being issued, one-half each at 4 per cent., and the other half at 3£ per cent.

THE SHAW, SAVILL CO

LONDON, April 25,

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.'s, report for the past year shows that the profits amounted to £28,028. A! dividend of 5 per cent, was declared, and £8491 carried forward.

BANK FORGERIES

LONDON, April 25. Frederick Reginald King, formerly! a clerk in the employment of the' London and South-western Bank, hasl been remanded at Bow Street on a charge of forgery and complicity withi Windell's frauds.

RAILWAY BILL WITHDRAWN.

LONDON, April 25. 'itxe Great Northern, Great.Eastern! and tfreat Central Railways "Amalgamation Bill has beenl withdrawn, owing to Parliament's granting a locus stahdi before Committee to so many] interests.

FATAL MARINE COLLISION

LONDON, April 25,

A collision occurred at Christiania) between the British steamer Oxford and the Norwegian steamer Edith., The latter sank. ' The captain, his wife, and 16 of the crew and passengers were drowned.

NO SUPPORT.

LONDON, April 25

The Times' New York porrespon-v dent reports that Mr Roosevelt's remarkable tribute to British rule'inf India proved the deai;h-blow to In.-* dian nationalist propaganda in the! United * States, where the head-i quarters have now been closed*