BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1912, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[>BESS ASSOCIATION.} CANADIAN NAVAL QUESTION. OTTAWA, Aug. 15/ The suggested removal of the na'^al question outside Dominion p_arty politics is ridiculed in Liberal circles^ SULTAN /YUSEF. . FEZ, Aug. 13. Yusef has been proclaimed Sultan 'df Morocco.

THE CORSICAN SAFE.

OTTAWA, Aug. 15. The Allan Line announces that the Carsican is safe, and is proceeding on her voyage. The delay was due to fog

SWIMMING. PARIS, Aug. 16. Healy { Australia) won th© Inter■national Criterium hundred! m. et>r|« gwimming race at Joinvillepont in '64 seconds, just beating Boardman by incb.ee. •..-.. AN ACT OF .COURTESY. LONDON, Aug. 16. The Daily Mail states that Che King has offered Manuel, the exiled king of Portugal, a suite of apartments in Kensington Palace. GERMANY FIRST. LONDON, Aug. 16. The fiTst prize of £600 in the Home Office competition for a miner's electric' lamp was awarded! to .T*. Farber, of Dortmund (Germany). jEHght English and foreign £rms were j awarded £50 each. AN IMPROVED JLROPLANE. BERLIN, Aug. 16. The newspaper Taglische Rundschau s©ports that an ; engineer has inTented an teroplane_ capable of remaining stationary in the air, at a given point for an indefinite period. TAXING BEER. LONDON, Aug. 16. Mr "Whitebread, a brewer, in recommending a dividend x>f 1J per cent, i on ordinary shares, declared! that he! paid £387,460 in beer duty .and other taxes last year. •.'.•■>, : . CRANTED A PENSION. . LONDON, Aug. 16.. The daughter of the late Justin McCarthy has been given a Civil List pension of £70 per annum, THE GUN-RUNNING TRADE. LONDON, Aug. 16. The Sultan of Muscat (Arabia) with a view to suppressing illicit traffic, has ordered the compulsory warehousing of all arms and' ammunition, brought to Muscat. Special licenses; will'be issued. MARKING THE EVENT.

OTTAWA, Aug. 16. Nova Scotia possesses the distinction of being the first place overseas in which a Legislative Assembly was established. The Duke of Connaught dedicated a tower at Halifax yester* <lay in commemoration of the event.