BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 94, 27 April 1910, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] THE KING BETTER. (Received April 27, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. King Edward will arrive in London to-morrow. He looks younger, and fresher than when he left for Biarritz. TOM BROWNE'S FORTUNE. LONDON, April 26. The estate of the late Tom Browne, the famous cartoonist and artist, is valued at £18,528. AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS. LONDON, April 26. Leading Australian artists in London are well represented at the Academy exhibition. ANOTHER SCALP FOR WILDING. CAPETOWN, April 26: A. F. Wilding, of New Zealand, won the South African tennis championship, beating Kitson 6-0, 6-3, 6-0. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, April 26. The French ©lections discredited the anti-Republican revolutionary element, and strengthened the position ©f proportional representation. A BIG CONTRACT. LONDON, April 26. Morrison and Mason, of Glasgow, have secured the contract for a graving dock at Portsmouth, to cost one and a-half millions sterling. TERRIBLE FROSTS. NEW YORK, April 26. The losses of fruit and vegetables in the United States are estimated afc £6,000 000. Wheat and oats in ti.e1 •west also suffered. GENEROUS AMERICANS. NEW YORK, April 26. The Protestant churches, in the United States, in a week's special ap- j peal for funds for home and foreign missions, aggregated $6,000,000. VALUABLE DOCUMENTS. LONDON, April 26. William Blathwayt's correspondence { •was sold "by auction at Sotheby s for £8650. The correspondence included Perm's draft of the Pennsylvania grant. PROGRESS OF ''WIRELESS."

LONDON.ApriI 26. Thirty-four thousand four hundred and ninty-six Transatlantic wireless telegrams have been exchanged in nine months. One hundred and sixteen British vessels are licensed to receive messages.

■ THE "THIRD DEGREE." WASHINGTON, April.26. Th© Senate Committee on Judiciary at Washington has resolved in favor of a thorough investigation of "third, degree" methods of extorting confes-j slons from prisoners and the employment of persons to watch the movements of jurors. '• - j A POSITION OF POWER. NEW YORK, April 26. Mr Hughes, Governor of New York State* will succeed Mr Justice' Brewer in, the Supreme Court after qualifying.: for "his new position at the Octo- • tier term. Mr Hughes is expected to hold the "balance of power in the Courts decision ixl. actions against •the trusts. i IMITATION CHINA. : LONDON, April 26. The jury found Christie, Matson and Woods, the . well-known firm of auctioneers, guilty of negligence in preparation of a sale catalogue, whereby Charles Dickens was sold some alleged antique china which was spurious. The plaintiffs failed to prove any monetary loss. Judgment ■was deferred.