BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 63, 15 March 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[fress association.] IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION.

(Received March 15, 10.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 14. The Immigration Restriction Bill •>.. was read a second time. A CHRISTCHURCH LOAN. LONDON, March 14. The Christchurch Tramway Board . is issuing £61,400 of 4£' debentures at 103. BOXING. LONDON, March 14. R. J. Larking, of Melbourne, now . a student at Oxford, won the middle- . weight inter-University boxing comj.. petition. CANADA'S IMMIGRATION. OTTAWA, March 14. The immigration returns for the nine months of the ciirrent fiscal year show that of 253,000 immigrants, 96,000 were British, 97,*Q00 were Americans, and the remainder ,; Europeans of other nationalities. A STREET FIGHT. NEW YORK, March 14. _ Forty prisoners killed the guards ..and escaped from gaol at Vera Cxuz. They were pursued by . the police, :and a running fight ensued in the i streets. Several were killed, foat 'the majority of the convicts escaped •■ to the woods.