BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 222, 16 September 1909, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] IN BAD HEALTH. LONDON, Sept. 5. "* Lord Tweedmouth is in a critical state of health. LAWN TENNIS. ' LONDON, Sept. 15. America won all the five events or the Davis Cup. LORD ROSEBERY. LONDON, Sept. 15. Lord Rosebery has resigned the presidency of the Scottish Liberal Club, A HUGE SALE. LONDON, Sept. 5. The Daily Mail sold a million and a quarter copies of a verbatim report of Lord Rosebery's speech, ANOTHER SUICIDE. LONDON, Sept 15. Sir Ralph Moor, late High Commissioner for Southern Nigeria, has committed suicide by taking poison. A TIDAL WAVE. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. A tidal wave overwhelmed Mulege, in Mexico. A large number of persons were drowned. THE SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION. LONDON Sept. 15. Mr Marconi states that Captain Scott can transmit ethergrams 200 miles with a half-hundredweight apparatus and kites.. A CUTE MOVE. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Mr Thompson, the United States Ambassador for Mexico, has purchased 9,600,000 dollars worth of stock, and thus secured the control'of the PanAmerican railway. - TAXI-CABS IDLE. LONDON, Sept. 15. One thousand taxi-cabs are idle in London owing to the lack of competent drivers. The motor cab companies complain that the new police requirements are too rigorous. MONEY NOT WANTED. LONDON, Sept".. 15. At a meeting of Scottish Liberal Commoners it. was resolved that no money under the Development Bill should be applied exclusively to motor roads. TO HONOR KITCHENER. CALCUTTA, Sept. 15. At an influential meeting held at Calcutta, including the maharajahs and rajahs and European and native gentry, it'was decided to erect an equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener. -. t AUSTRIAN^FINANCE. BUDA PESTH, Sept. 15. The Austrian-Hungarian Minister for > Finance resists the naval and military credits demands, including the provision projected for four "Dreadnoughts. THE KAISER'S' SPEECH. BERLIN, Sept. 15. The Berlin Vorwaerts interprets the Kaiser's speech to the Army Corps at Karlsruhe as a rebuff to Mr Asquith regarding his overtures for a reduction of armaments. GRECIAN AFFAIRS. LONDON, Sept. 15. Cablegrams from Athens indicate that the crisis is obscure, but is apparently grave, owing largely to the King]s weakness in grappling with the' situation. The King's abdication is being discussed. AN. ENERGETIC PRESIDENT. NEAV YORK, Sept. 15. President Taft has started on a motor-car journey of 1300 miles. He makes a series of speeches explaining the tariff, and unfolding proposed legislation, particularly as regards the conservation of natural resources, and the amendment of the anti-trust laws. . NAVIGATING THE AIR. LONDON, Sept. 15. Santos Dumont, the aeronaut, made an ascent at Saint "Cyr, and travelled five miles in five minutes across country upon an aeroplane, covering an area of nine square metres, as compared with 53 of Wright's biplane. ' The aeroplane and motor cost £2000 sterling. M. Dumont's patents are public property. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. BOMBAY, Sept. 15. A crowded meeting at Bombay resolved to appeal to the Imperial Gov 7 eminent;to prevent the continued in-, justice and cruelty to Indians in South Africa. The resolution also requested the Government of Indiaj pending a settlement of the question, to stop the recruiting of Indian labor for South Africa. ' A committee was appointed to collect funds for the relief, of Indians deported from' South Africa. INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT. ST. PETERSBURG; Sept. 15. Theotokis has resigned the leadership of the Novoe Vremya. He states that the German Consul at Harbin destroyed the seals affixed to the premises of a German merchant refusing to pay taxes in a Russian settlement. The incident is now being amicably settled between St. Petersburg and Berlin.