BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 12 May 1909, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] BACK AT WORK. (Received May 12, 8.30 a.m.) BUENOS AYRES, May 11, The strikes at Buenos Ayres haveh terminated.

A MUNIFICENT GIFT. LONDON, May 11. The Duke of Norfolk has presentedl Norfolk Park, worth £60,000, toSheffield. CANADA AND ITALY. OTTAWA, May 11. Canada has consented to open fresh' negotiations with Italy for a commercial treaty. THE DAY'S WORK. LONDON, May 11. A joint conference of stillmakers. - and their employees at Swansea decided upon a general eight hours' day, in the trade. PERSIA'S NEW PREMIER. LONDON, May 11. Massirel Mulk, the newly-appointed - Premier of Persia, was a contemporary of Lord Curzon' and Sir Edward! Grey at Oxford University. SUFFRAGETTES BARRED. LONDON, May 11., The strangers' and ladies' galleries'in the House of Commons have beetf re-opened. Ladies allowed into the.latter will be restricted to relatives ot Members. WARFARE MORE DEADLY. LONDON, May 11. The Times and the Daily Telegraph 1 state that tests of Admiral Sir Percy; Scott's invention for the direction of gun-fire showed fifty per cent, of hitsv in excess of ordinary battle practice. MOTOR MOBILISATION. BERLIN, May 11. Germany is following Britain's ex« ample, and experimenting with themobilisation of troops by motor-car at' Frankfort, Stra'sburg and other/ places. ETHERGRAPHY. LONDON, May 11. Hevland, a Norwegian, and Chaloxft and Chantelot, Frenchmen, announced simultaneous inventions forr respectively recording ethergrams mii print and transmitting handwriting.