BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 119, 18 May 1909, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MR JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. (Received May? 18, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 17. Mr Joseph. Chamberlain has started homewards. He is in better health. GEORGE MEREDITH ILL. LONDON, May 17. George Meredith, the well-known! [novelist, is seriously ill. SWINBURNE'S ESTATE. LONDON, May 17. The late Algernon Charles Swin-i burne's estate* is valued at £20,000. A TERRORIST OUTBREAK. ST.PETERSBURG, May 17. Two Polish, terrorists killed the! ; chief of police at Lublin, and shotf i three policemen. Both were arrested. A HANDSOME LEGACY. LONDON,, May-17. Mr James Duncan, of Alyth, Perth* \ shire, ! bequeathed £60,000- to establish a School of Industrial Art in Dun- ' dee. THE PRESSMEN'S TOUR. OTTAWA, May 17. The Canadian authorities, press and! public are everywhere ovating and! feting the Australasian press dele- ■' gates, who are now in Toronto. THE AMIR FORGIVES. < LONDON, May 17. ■ The Times's correspondent at Luck- - now states that it is reported ati Peshawar that the Amir has acquitted! all Indians accused of conspiracy), against him. ROBBERIES ON TRAINS. , PARIS, May 17. Fifteen railway guards have been! ■ arrested at Marseilles charged with!' committing a series of train robberies in the Riviera. They opened passen-< gers' trunks with skeleton keys. ' ' A J CHANGE OF MEMBER. ' LONDON, May 17. Mr Clyde, K.C., (Unionist) has been! elected unopposed for West Edinburgh, in place of Sir L. Mclverj (Unionist) who retired owing to ill" health. /. THE' PASSIVE RESISTERS. LONDON, May 17. In order to reorganise the passive! resistance movement against the education rates, a new Passive Resistance' League 'has been established by militant Free^ Churchmen, with Dr Clifford as" president. ' . THE NEW'HEBRIDES. ' \ PARIS, May 17. President Fallieres', decrees havd been gazetted, enforcing the provisions of the1 Anglo-French Convention of 1906, relating to the New Hebrides, and instituting two French! civil and criminal courts. The documents include rules for the jointf Court established under the Convention of 1907. ■ -.