CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

[BY KLECIBIO TBUEGBAPH.—OOPTBIfIHT.J-i

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ABBOCZATION.I ;->■; DEATH OF A .._., *: (Received Jan. or 8.55 a.m.) '': "TOKIO; Jan. 5. ; The death is announced of thie* Right Rev. William Awdry, Bishop of South Tokio, aged 68. A TIDY FORTUNE. NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Mr Ogden Mills, the San Franciscci financier, left a fortune of £12,000,000. • . PRUSSIA'S SAVINGS. <""■ BRESLAU, Jan. 5. Tardy statistics for the year 1908? show that the savings bank deposits in Prussia totalled £478,650,000. The excess of deposits over" withdrawals was £6,000,000, chiefly in the Rhine! province and Westphalia. "AUSTRALIAN BUTTER." LONDON, Jan. 5. Mr Coghlan. has discovered that! empty Australian branded butterboxes are collected in London and shipped abroad, especially to Malta, where they are £llea with margarine, which is sold as Australian butter. GERMANY "SQUEAKS." BERLIN, Jan. 5. The German Commercial Treaties Association states that the revised French tariff will deal a serious blow, to German exports. It will practically destroy the market in chemicals, machinery, pianos, and metal manufactures, and annihilates thetrada in Nuremberg toys. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. LONDON, Jan. 5. [ Th 6 task of officially observing the* j forthcoming eclipse of the sun will be > left to Australian scientists. The Imperial Government will not send anf expedition, but the joint conimittee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society will lend instruments. A FREIGHT AGREEMENT. LONDON, Jan. 5. lne limes reports that, with a view to securing to each port on the Atlantic seaboard of North America the^ beneht of its geographical position,, the North Atlantic steamship lines* propose to co-ordinate freight rates--to the extent of agreeing to a minimum tariff aud abolishing unremunerative. rates in connection witk competitive traffic to interior points. THE OPEN PURSE. NEW YORK, Jan. 5. A total of £28,250,000 was given in public benefactions in the United' htates daring the past year, estab£7 00nmn 3?°° or • i 2 5OO ; O00 lO r missionary societies. Mr J t^Tl^ gave £5,000,000. Mr Oi^^r^^^W «*