BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBEfiB ASSOCIATION.] MARCONI INQUIRY.

LONDON, Jan. 30. Helore the Marconi Committee the Uon. Harry Lawson, whose articles started the controversy, admitted that many of his allegations were founded on rumors which he was since unable to verify. UNPATRIOTIC YOUNG MEN. o- tT. LONDON, Jan. 30. bir John French, in a speech, re* gretted that the Territorials were much under strength. He deprecated the apathy of young men, who were unpatriotic and preferred watching tootball to aiding to defend their country. A SHIPPING ARRANGEMENT. . LONDON, Jan. 30. Arrangements have been concluded by which the Peninsular Company will represent the Cunard Company's interests in India, the Far East, and Australia, and the Cunard Company will represent the Peninsular Company a interests in the United States and Canada. These arrangement* are supposed to have originated the unfounded amalgamation rumors. KING'S EVIDENCE. t, ~ . , DELHI, Jan. 30. i m ,v- has been Pardoned, so as td accused m the Agra murder case. IMPORTANT COPPER DEAL n * LONDON, Jan. 30. une ot the most important deals ever arranged in connection with Au* tralian copper mining has been completed. The Mount (Ixide Company of Queensland has been acquired % tha Consolidated Goldfields and Edmund Davis groups, and the properties selection and trust by influential £4??°nnn U™' i,with f ca Pital °* £475,000. This has so far proved tha richest copper lode-in the world POSTED AS OVERDUE. . \ •■ LONDON, Jan. 30. It is believed that the grain; steamer Whittingham, bound Iron* Baltimore to Rotterdam, was lost ia tne Atlantic during the recent storms, and it has been posted aa overdue. •.*."■ A SHIP'S BUFFETING. LQNDON, Jan. 30. . lhe St. Amer Margaretha has arrived at Plymouth. She encountered tremendous seas, and everything moveable was swept overboard. There was ten feet of water in the engine* Bwm. The captain pumped a' thousand tons of oil from the cargo overboard during the height of thfl storm, and this proved successful.