BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 8 March 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

I[PEESB -ASSOCIATION-! J THE FI&HIN© SfDREKBL j (Received March JB, 10.30 a;m.) , GAPE BRKPON^ Mareli 7. Polie© hay© fceen drafted in t©.guartl "the non-tstriifcers. ON THE JJCE JFJjOE. ST.. PETERSBURG, March 77. Sfeaiiy a3l those vwho were adrift on the icefloe in the Gulf *>f Finland have been saved. A DRAGGING mBVOLT. MEXICO IOLTY, Mardh .7. The Revolt- drags every day. Small parties of guerilla bands meet the Federals, and numbers are killed in indecaswe engagements.

ACQUITTED. ' OTTAWA, March %■ The manager of I the Springhill mitves, who had :been arrested on; charges iprfiforjied ihy-the labor: agitators, has been .acquitteQ. OBITUARY. mNTRQar, March 15. ILady JBraeme,, widow of a former Governor of "West Australia, is deafl. Antonio F>ogazzaro,i the Italian litterateur, is'dead THE UNIVERSITY EIGHT. LONDON, March 7. C. Xattlejohn, of Melbourne, is rowing in the lOxford crew, and G. -E.! Faiirlbairn in the Cambri<sge. S. *M - Jit-mob is tftoaehing the'latter. LAND FRAUDS. NEW YORK, March 7. . Federal indictments '"have been issued against sewn .residents of Chicago, .on a charge .of conspiracy iv xx>nnejeiian with the Alaskan land' frauds, ircvdLving £10,000,000. THE ARDEN CRAIG. LONDON, Jfttoh 7. Capi. Dumming, of the ship Arden .Craig, which went ashore at the Scilly Islands on Januaivy Bth, has had his suspended for three -months for aeg'leciing to take;preeaiiiions. THE QUEEN OF .MADAGASCAR, LONDON, March .7. la the Madagascar concession case the jury found that the judicial .between Mr and Mrs _£lome was ,a ruse t© evade liability .and gave .a verdict i'or plaintiff for -the amount claimed. Judgment .was on a legal point. ' TURKISH POLITICS. ! CONSTANTINOPLE, March 7. Owing to his insinuations tiiat Ministers profited by cojicessions, the wand Vizier struck Ismail Kemal, -ih© leader of ike Moderate Liheralfl . Dervich Bey, unionist deputy, struck .Ismail violently on the Uoe. They Were subsequently reco'nciied. * ALLEGED IrfßKfe. to tt fONDQN, March .7. _ Lord Howard De Walden is suing John Lewis, a silk mercer, for alleged libel m placing in his shop a placard accusing Lord De Walden, who is his late landlord, of exercising .a wicked and unscrupulous oppression. ■ The action is a climax to ten years' iitiea--tion. ' *^ AFTER HIS OWN ENDS. . OTTAWA, Marei 7. \ Mr Lanctot, Liberal. Memfeer fox Ottawa, war, charged by Mr Blondin1 m the House with working for his^wn purposes in connexion with the Government employees at the Sore! sMpyard. The Committee of Privileges: ■were ordered to investigate the charge,. ■ TURMOIL IN ZION CITY :■■■_. CHICAGO, March 7. Wo^ have come in of a turmoil . atZionCity. The Dowieite followers , nave split over a pending election of ; an. overseer, and lively scenes followe-i , v tiie arrest oe church elders on assault , charges. One eldet, and a lawyewere imprisoned on a charge of con:,,.±emp£ of court. PALM OIL FACTORY^ Th r. V March 7. .Tha Daily Express's Brussels cor- , respondent reports that the Belgian for the Colonies has agfeed - so Lever Brothers forming, a company ,-wrth a capital of £1,000,000 to pffit .palm oil. trees and establish a factory .^deal with the oil products of tli<> ..NO AUSTRALIAN BEEF Th R ..,.•, /March 7. Bnilt h , standard Produce 7' -T^ ic}l has regularly supplied the rr.ihtai-y authorities oflta v v.with Australia^ beef for the past I t.threo .months, finds that it is now ; ncceq£ar.y to substitute South Am eriroan;,beef .-for April and May* owing io ' -the impossibility of obtaining freight' if|-om Australia to Naples. RAN AMOK. _ .. ; ; BERLIN, March 7. '#%> anarchist Phillipsohn, who was -.Wz^ved after being 'sentenced S <aeath for murder at Buchsal, ran :amok ir. thy prison at Baden. He ,a pair of tailor's scissors, and suddenly.Btta#ed the warder. He pierced-him in- the heart, and madly Misled arrest. He fatally wounded ...warder (before being overpowered and placed in chains. -N'Z. tLOAN AND MERCANTILE COMPANY. % c ivin^ ncial Tlmes states that as a of negotiations between the •brustees^of -the third debenture-hold-w>s and -Uh*.directors of the New Zeal'Om\i a?^ M«FWntile Agency .Cte^pany, the trustees are more favor--huZJi 3 wor§t ni?ati, on Gf the capital, ba«ed ».Pon reduc%n of the lia^ M l4y?£ £8/500;0p0 by a .contribution f!.«« Zu Pr°Prie*«rs, sapplementad