BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 56, 11 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] ARTIST EMBEZZLES.

LONDON, March 9. Carew Martin, acting-secretary of i;he Royal Society of British Artiste, "has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment in the second division for embezzlement. BRUTAL BURGLARS. LONDON, March 9. Three Norwood burglars concealed themselves in a residence and awaited the return of the occupier, William Taunton, aged 76. They tilled the housedog and brutally assaulted Taunton. The house was subsequently ransacked. The- burglars have been f> THE KING. LONDON, March 10. King Edward has arrived at :BiarritZ> OBITUARY. VIENNA, March 10. # The death is aimpunced of 3>r ILueger, fhe anti-Semitic Burgomaster or Vienna. THE DOINGS OF DUEZ. PARIS, March 10. It is stated that Duez's defalcations in connection with French religious institutions probably total £IOOjGOO. ■ CANADA T0 ENGLAND. OTTAWA, March 10. , •Che Canadian Northern Railway is : ioaueura^fing a line of -21-knot steamSslfom BritoltoCanada, 'beginning in May. „,„ THE GREEK TYRANTS. ATHENS, March: 10. The Military league demands the «spropriation of landlords in Ssaly, notwithstanding treaties guaranteeing Moslems' rights. THE KING'S :COLON'IALS. LONDON. March 10. The Prince of Wales has given the King's Colonials £1000 as a fund for draining contingents which, owmg to iiheir distanced rom London, cost more -than the Government grant. 3BIG STRIKE LOOMING.

.NEW YORK, March 10. Eighty-eight .per cent, of the -engineers and .firemen -employedon Jrtty a-ailroadsin the west, north-west and south-west vof.ifhe United States voted 3n favour of .a strike for higher 'wages. MISHAP IN THE SUEZ CANAL: LONDON, March 10. The steamer ' Cevic,, bound from Brisbane to London, struck ground in ifoe Suez Canal. She returned. to OPort Said, .whene as the cargo of Nos. 1 and .2 holds, which axe Skating. THEFTS FROM AN i&tSENAL. NEW YORK, March 10. The New York Herald's Yokohama •correspondent states that the jpohce arrested seventeen olei'ks 'and workmen at the Yokosaka naval arsenal ifor .purloining severa1! thousand pounds' worth of platinum and <other unetals since 19Q2

BATTLES TO BE RE-ENACTED. LONDON, March 10. A feature of the Army Pageant at I'dlham in June will be represents -tions of the battles of Mmdin, Dettuicen, Corunna, Barossa, and Badajoz Sy members of regiments which parti«ipat«i 'in the actions.

■'■*" LONDON, March 10. Mr Slakespeare, secretary of the Baptist Union, speaking :at the Free Church .Conference at Hull, advocated a .United Free Church of England, consisting of the various Nonconformist churches autonomous sections. OChe was ■j?e'§eraie«l ■*© & committee. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. LONDON, March 10. A Toronto correspondent reports tfhat the American commissioners Siave returned to Washington. He adds that there is no reason to believe -that Canada has 'been promised tariff concessions, though it is likely that -there will "be negotiaticms later with a. view to a reciprocal treaty. Meaniame it is (expected that President Taft will proclaim that Canada is entitled to the minimum tariff, though -that necessitates afcrainimg the Act tii Congress.