BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 216, 19 September 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] A SOCIETY SUSPENDED

LONDON, Sept. 18. The Sunderland Co-operative So•ciety, comprising 14,000 members, has suspended operations, owing to the withdrawal of £24,000. The directors state that the society is solvent. ENTOMBED. LONDON, Sept. 17. An explosion in the Cromamnian "Colliery entombed 100 men. Two were killed and four are in a precarious condition. The rest of the miners were rescued. HONORED BY THE KING. LONDON, Sept. 17. . The King bade farewell to Sir Gibson Carmionael at Balmoral and invested him with the Grand Cross of the Indian Empire. He also knighted MrG/R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade.

ANOTHER FATALITY, LONDON, Sept. 17. Cammel, flying at Hendon, fell 90 feei and was killed.

Cammel, trying the War Office's 3tew Valkyrie monoplane, made his -first circuit safely ? but while volplaning the machine tilted and crashed to earth._ Cammel was terribly injured asad died immediately.

THE NAIRNSHIRE'S MISHAP. MONTE VIDEO, Sepi. 18. Th© Nairnshire has arrived under Jow, pressure with her crank-shaft broken.

THE "GIOCONDA" THEFT. PARIS, Sept. 18. The magistrate investigating tne theft of "La Gioconda" 'bejfievea that an international gang has been at work. ■ ' * '" \ SCULLING. 1 AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18. Vongaza, of Berlin, beat Fairbairo, 4»f Cambridge, by a length for the Amateur Sculling Championship of 4ho Netherlands, after a great struggle. ■.-■'■ NATIONAL INSURANCE. LONDON, Sept. 18. The Manchester Unity Societyl of Oddfellows, in a strong manifesto ißgainst the Insurance Bill, states that Mr Lloyd George's amendments must he resisted at all costs, or'it will mean a. long stride towards the destruction <jf friendly societies. ' , ' COMBATING CONTINENTAL COMPETITION.

LONDON, Sept. 18. ,^ The Scotch steel makers have initiated! a scheme to combat Continen--^tal competition: in British markets, and offer a rebate of 5s per tori, payable half-yearly, provided the custom«r confines his dealings with the associated makers. The English makers -are considering similar action.