BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 25 November 1912, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESa ASSOCIATION.] "SPRINGBOKS" AT HOME

LONDON, Nov. 23. The *'Springboks" defeated Scot- * landi by 16 points to nil. FATAL METAL EXPLOSION.' LONDON, Nov. 23. Four men were killed at a Leeds foundry by the capsize of a cauldron containing four tons of molten metal. A DENIAL. LONDON, Nov. 24. The Peninsular and Cunard authorities, deny the rumored amalgamation. GERMAN NAVAL STRENGTH. | BERLIN, Nov. 23. i In 1915 the German fleet will con-j sist of 39 battleships, 20 armored cruisers, and 37 protected cruisers. CYCLONIC STORM. i BOMBAY, Nov. 23. A cyclonic storm caused great damage amongst the harbor craft. Many natives were drowned. AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALLERS. VANCOUVER, Nov. 24. The British Columbian "All Star 5' team defeated the Australians by 15 TM>rnts to nil. The visitors were handicapped by the wet ground. A RAILWAY FRAUD. LONDON, Nov. 24. Sixteen liftmen and booking clerks on the Baker Street-Waterloo Stube railway have been arrested for fraud in. retaining clipped tickets and later re-issuing them to the public.', "GIFT OF THE GAB." LONDON, Nov. 24. During the arbitration proceedings "between the Post Office and Telephone Company, Sir J. A. Simon, X.C.. made a speech, occupying 9| days. " HUMAN LEOPARD SOCIETY. LONDON, Nov. 23. The authorities at Sierra Leone have arrested, several hundred chiefs in the effort to stamp out a recrudescence of the murders and horrible cannibal rites of the Human Leopard 001 * COUNCIL OF WAR. BERLIN, Nov: 23. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who is visiting the Kaiser, will attend the Court hunt at Hanover. The guests will include Herr yon Bethmann Hollweg, Admiral yon Tirpitz, Herr Kiderlen Waehter, and the chief senerals of staff. YACHTING CHALLENGE. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Sir Thomas Lipton has issued a challenge .to 23 metre yachts of universal measurement to race at the Panama Canal opening celebrations at San Francisco in 1915. It is hoped that Australia, Canada, the Kaiser, and King Alfonso will compete. MEXICAN REBELS. EL PASO, Nov. 23. A train arrived here crowded with American refugees. They reported that the rebels destroyed the bridges on the Mexican Central railway and fired fusillades on the train. The women and children were panicstricken. LORD ROBERTS'S APPEAL. LONDON, Nov. 24. Lord Roberts is publishing a book, strongly appealing to the nation and embracing the views set out in his Manchester speech. In a letter Lord Roberts draws attention to the events in the Balkans as a warning of what may happen to the Empire if it fails to improve its perilous position. MATERIALISM AND PLEASURE. LONDON, Nov. 24. The Rev. Watts-Ditchfield, interviewed',, said that Australian and New Zealand youths were not more seriously inclined . than British. Materialism and pleasure were dominant dangers. Australia and New Zealand were moving too rapidly, and inclined to rush legislation., "REGGIE'S" SISTER. LONDON, Nov. 24. Reginald Wright, a defaulting clerk in Lloyd's Bank at Bournemouth, was ariested on Marley Common by the Haslemere police, who imitated his sister's voice, calling "Reggie,' and Wright stepped from the bushes. Notes worth £1155 and 640 sovereigns, comprising the greater ©art of the. amount stolen, were found in a portmanteau. FIGHTING LABORITES. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. A pugilistic encounter marked the <*lose of the Convention., of . the American Federation of Labor at Rochester. Mr Haywood, leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, struck Mr Barnes, manager" of tne Presidential Socialistic campaign. •Thei Sergeant-at-Arms removed Mr HaVwood, who broke free and barricaded'himself in the laundry. The police quelled the disorder. NAVAL CHANGES. 1 LONDON, Nov. 23. The following navai changes are announced: — Rear-Admiral Jerram has been appointed to command the China Squadron, Rear-Admiral KingHall has been appointed^to the Cape station, Vice-Admiral Sir G. May succeeds Admiral Sir William May as C!ommander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and Vice-Admiral Sir H. Jackson succeeds Read-Admiral Troubridge as private secretary to the First Lord ot the Admiralty. Some surprise has been occasioned at the appointment of a Rear-Admiral to the China station which is interpreted to indicate that the Eastern fleet will be placed under the supreme command of the admiral of the Australian sauadron.

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