CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 125, 3 June 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] THE BANK RATE. (Received June 3, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The bank rate has been reduced - from 4 per cent, to 3J. I/OSS OF THE SWANHILDA. LONDON, June 2. Fourteen persons were drowned in the wreck of the barque Swanhilda off Tierra del Feugo. INSURANCE AMALGAMATION. LONDON, June 2. The Commercial Union Company has absorbed the Ocean Accident Guarantee Company. THE TABLES TURNED. BRUSSELS, June 2. Wilding won the international ten* nis singles at Brussels, beating: *d&" Cugis (who defeated him at Wiesbaden) by 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. GIRL'S GREAT RIDE. ST. PETERSBURG, June 2. Kudasheff, a Cossack girl, rode from Kharbin (Manchuria) to St« Petersburg astride a Mongolian pony, her only companion being a St. Bernard dog. THE PLUYIOSE VICTIMS. •> PARIS, June 2. The high seas having abated, one of ; the Pluviose's hatches has been found "■' to be half open, from which it is inferred that the sailors tried to escape. . A MAGNIFICENT GIFT. CAPETOWN, June 2. The Union Government has accepted Mr Solly Joel's gift of Barnattf Park, 11J acres in extent, with, a building to be hereafter used as sigirls' school. THE DOMINIONS. LONDON, June 2. The first annual report of the Do* minion Department of the Colonial Office has been issued. It gives a isurvey v of the year's doings m the Dominions. DRILLED TO DEATH, BERLIN, June 2. The Seventh Baden Infantry aft Mulheim were so severely exercised! on the drill-ground that 'fifty mart became exhausted. Two died, and1 eight bad to be'sent to the hospital. ALL ON THE" SAME LEVEL. BERLIN, June 2. The Kaiser has ordered volunteers serving for a year at their own expense to forego the comforts of hotels and boarding-houses, and live in barracks the same as ordinary soldiers. TAKEN TO ARBITRATION. LONDON, June 2. The arbitration case over the Newfoundland fisheries opens at TheHague on Monday. The Court will be comprised of Professor Lammascb (president), Drs. Drago (Argentine), Lohmann (Netherlands), Judge Gray (United States), and Mr Fitzpatrick: (Canada). OBITUARY. LONDON, June 2. The death, is announced of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, founder and- 1 president of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers; Sir William Bramp-r----ton Gurdori, ex-M.P.; and Dr EUza-^ beth Blackwell, who held the distinction of being the first qualified ladjr doctor. FRANCE AND SOUTH AFRICA^ LONDON, June 2. A Reuters message from Paris*says: "The hope firmly entertained here that the result of the conference between the British Chamber of Commerce, Mr Dean (Minister for Agriculture in Natal) and Mr Harrison? (commercial agent) will be that a* commercial arrangement between*France and South Africa will be* entered into in the near future." DERBY GAMBLING. CALCUTTA, June 2. Captain Raban, bf the Indian Army., who was on leave, drew the winner off ' the Derby, Lemberg, in the Calcutta Turf Club's sweepstake, and immediately sold a half-share to a London syndicate for £7500. The first prize is worth £50,000. / LONDON, June 2. The Derby win of Mr A. Cox, as ex-Australian, who races under tb» name of "Mr Fairie," is the general1 topic of conversation. THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER. LONDON, June 2. The newspapers comment on New Zealand's generosity in subscribing t& the Whitehaven colliery disaster: fund. ' [Cabinet at a meeting on Wedne*^ day decided to vote £1000 towards the relief of the sufferers through the recent Whitehaven colliery disaster,, when 133 lives were lost through am. explosion in the mine followed by <al fire. A Press Association telegram* from Westport states that the mci*. working, in the nine-mile section e£ the Westport-Reefton railway havecontributed one shilling per man to-" wards the relief fund.. The miners of Denniston are sending, a contribnwtion.jj .