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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 68, 22 March 1911, Page 8

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[press association.] BLOODSHED PROBABLE

NEW YORK, March 21. Tho Italian coalmincrs on strike intend to hold a demonstration in the streets. If they clash with the police -bloodshed is probable.

A TRAIN SMASH. NEW YORK, March 21. The overland train to Los Angelos ■crashed into a train standing on the -siding. Thirty-five persons were injured. A BITTER WAR PROMISED. NEW YORK, March 21. Advices from "El Paso state that if the peace proposals do not come to hand the rebel leaders will join forces and a bitter war is promised. COLORED IMMIGRANTS. OTTAWA, March 21. One hundred and sixty-five negroes, bound to Albertaland, were refused .admittance into the country. It is feared that they will drift into the ■Canadian cities. A YACHT MISSING. MELBOURNE, March 22. This yacht Mavis, *with four men ■•■aboard, is missing, and it is feared she was lost in the storm on Sunday. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. MELBOURNE, March 21. Tile cost of invalid and old-age pen- j visions has reached £1,900,000 per annum. Tho total recipients are 75,940. - OBITTJABT. FREMANTLE, March 22. Max Maxwell, actor -manager, is ■dead. THE COMMONWEALTH ROLLS. ,~r SYDNEY, March 22. The revised Commonwealth electoral rolls show' an increase of 9307.since April. - THE "HAREM" SKIRT. ' ' MELBOURNE, March 22. The Warrnambool branch of the Australian Women's Union declared in favor of the "harem" skirt. THE PERICLES. PERTH, March 22. -It is, believed that cargo valued at £200,000 is still intact in the stern hatches of the Pericles. The forepart has broken up, and the cargo has disappeared. ~.