BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

£PKESS ASSOCIATION. J the bank: rate. (Received March 10, 10-30 .a.m,) LONDON, March .9. The hank rate has been .reduced -to 3 per cent. RETALIATORY, BERLIN, March 9. A Bill retaliating against the British jmtent Jaw has been introduced in the Reichstag. THE KIND KAISER. BERLIN, March 9. The Kaiser and Empress attended "ihe bedside of a sailor's son, named Adelbert, who is suffering from an attack ol appendicitis at Kiel. EXIT THE BOOKMAKER. AMSTERDAM, March .9. In view of the recent legislation, , lEnglish TjookmaLkers operating nere are preparing to move H*> Switzerland. ■ INVESTS© IN MEXICO. LONDON, March ,9. A fairly accurate computation shows that £%fMBi®QB EaglisTi and £86,000j000 American monty is invested in Mexico. A FATAL AVALANCHE. ST. PETERSBURG., March .9. •An avalanche at Artbvin, in Asiatic Russia, overwhelmed a building and killed 19 workmen and injured 70 ■others. THE SICK UORDS. LONDON, March 59. Lord Crewe is .progressing .satisfactorily, and Lord Lansdowne is slightly* better. THE'SABBATH REST. LONDON, Maxdh 9. King George, 5n a message to the ITree Church Congress at Portsmouth, heartl-ly sympathised with any movement ensuring the workers Their Sunday rest. \ HANDSOME BEQUESTLONDON, March :9. I The late Sij V. Galton has bequeathed £65,000 to the University <of London to establish a Proifessor.*hip of Eugenics, with a laboratory «nd library. j A BISHOP DISMISSED. : LISBON, Maxch 9. The Bishop of Oporto has been -dis■missed on a pension for ordering the priests of the diocese to read a 'pastoral letter.which the Government inhibited. AMERICA AND JAPAN. NEW YORK, March .9. Mr Lincoln Cummins, President &f *h & Navy League, speaking at San Francisco, urged the need ot the United States having a strong navy hi consequence of the aspirations oi Japan to control the commerce of the . Pacific, and also the need to maintain the ratio of sWouildmg with Japan. _