LATE CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 74, 4 April 1910, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[press association.] MARIE CORELLI ILL

LONDON, April 1. Miss Marie Corelli is seriously ill of pneumonia at Stratford. THE RUBBER BOOM. LONDON, April 1. Rubber brought 11s 6d at auction. Excited scenes are taking place in the rubber share-market. SHORT-SIGHTED POLICY. LONDON, April 1. The dentists of Preston offered to attend all children's teeth at the rate .of 4d per head per annum; but the Town Council refused the offer. THE WOOL THIEF. SYDNEY, April 2. Steps are being taken to prevent ■wool stealing at Sydney. One fira state that their loss is over £5000 yearly. LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING. ST. PETERSBURG, April 1. Nine hundred and thirty-two males and 500 females committed suicide in this city during 1909, including 58 boys and 27 girls between the ages of eleven and seventeen. PEACE SCOUTS. LONDON, April l! Sir Francis Vane is inaugurating a body of National Peace Scouts, affiliated to the British Boy Scouts. The object is to discourage militarism. OBITUARY. LONDON, April 1. The Right Rev. A. Barry, Canon of Windsor, and farmerly Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, died at his residence, the Cloisters, Windsor Castle. LESS ALCOHOL. LONDON, April 1. . The United Kingdom Alliance estimates that in 1909 £155,162,485 was expended on alcohol. Increased taxation added £5,000,000 to the cost; therefore the decrease in consumption for the year was equivalent to £11,000,000. ~,.„,.,. A THE HOPE DIAMOND. LONDON, April 1. A diver recovered many of Habib's diamonds from the wreck of the steamer La Seyne. It is now discovered that Habib sold the famous Hope diamond, supposed to be lost in the wreck; for £16,000 to a Parisian merchant before he was drowned. A POPULAR VICEROY. CALCUTTA,. April 1. An c all-India movement has been inaugurated to commemorate the introduction of reforms by creating a great Minto Park at Allahabad and the erection Of a pillar recording a proclamation. There are many evidences of Lord Minto's popularity as the period of his retirement approaches. •