GENERAL CABLE ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 67, 20 March 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE ITEMS.

[rHBBS ABBOCIATIOX.] THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

LONDON, March 17. The Colonial Institute, with a view -to identifying itself actively in the furtherance of Empire trade, has formed a ccmmittee to arrange an industrial conference to regulate and co-ordinate Empire trade conditions, and make known the opportunities existing overseas for British trade and capital. ''-■■'!•' THE PLAGUE AT ODESSA, ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. Two deaths have occurred from plague at Ojdteasa. ; ■~-•■ THE TROUBLE AT FEZ. ; "'FEZ,'Mafcb 18. ' Tribesmen attacked Fez. Several sortie 3 resulted in the attacks being repelled. , _~ _> OPIUM'^MO&ING. - , SEEING; March 18. The1 prohibition of opium smoking has been enforced at Kirin. All' the opium stored in Government warehouses was publicly burned'^ A POLICEMAN'S DEATH. COLOMBO,'March 18. A police probationer named Philip Mainwaring was shot dead by a constable. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. LONDON, March 17. A statue of .Flbcence Nightingale is beiriv^erecteti }n London. Another momorfal'cbnsists of an .annuity, ftmd for tfie relief of distressed trained nurses. LUNACY. LONDON, March 17. Solomon BeronJ brother of the" victim of the Clapham Common murder, has been arrested for lunacy. ' CLASS PREJUDICE. ~ LGND<SN;"March 17. The University''College School ,at Hampstead decided to ,' forego ~ the £3000 yearlj; grajnt f/roni thp w Cbun|j; CjHincif, which.* carried the cpnditiop, that free scholarships be '^.yen "ytpf Board School scholars. The action, is mainly due to class prejudice by the fee-paying scholars, and' objections by the parents. THE CHINESE AWAKENING.

CALCUTTA, 'March IT. , The newspaper Englishman states ihat China proposed to prohibit 1 V&H<J importation of Indian* tea Aatf&/ reduod the duty on the exported article.

A FATAL COLLISION. ' ' ' PARIS, March 17. .' , The sckconer Marivonic sank at St. Poldeleon after a collision with a trawler. Twenty-six were drowned.

OBITUARY

LONDON, March 18. Bishop Stuart is dead. [Right Rev. Bishop Edward Craig Stuart, D.D. (Dublin); missionary in Persia since 1894; born 1827; son of Alexander Stuart, Edinburgh; .married the daughter of Rev. Michael de Courcy, D.IX, Westmeath, 1851. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (Vice-Chancellor's Prize, Divinity, Ist class). Ordained! 1850; in India, 1851-72: Bfehop of Waiapu, New Zealand, 1377-93.]

THE OHRISTCHURtSH LOAN

LONIXDN, March 18. The Christchurch loan has been fully subscribed

tennis!

ADELAIDE, March 18. In the State championship, Taylor, of Adelaide, beat' Fisher, of -'New; Zealand, TrS, 6-4, 6%0. The final lies between Parker, New South Wales', and Taylor.

In the State championships Parker beat Taylor, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. In the doubles Plarker and Fisher beat Addison and Barnard (Victoria), 2-6, 6-2, 4-6. 8-6, 6-2. Mixed Doubles: Fisher and Miss Stewart beat Rice and Miss Watson, £-2, 0-6, 11-9.

WANTED TO BE A MAN,

MELBOURNE, March 18; .A girl at Bendigo was charged misbehaving in an offensive manner in a public , piece. She appeared in court' : dressed in male clothing. For thre3 months she had posed as a-boy, mid -worked at various employments—for a :time as a policeman's assistant. The rcourt decided to give her a chance,- ---• conditionally on her assuming proper •clothing. LAXITY OF DUTY

f _ FREMANTLE, March 18. Two Customs officers; have been ireoommended for dismissal for laxity •ar .duty' in allowing Chinese to land.