BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 138, 13 June 1913, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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CANADA'S GOVBRNOiMJENERAL

OTTAWA, Juaae 12. •It' is -announced ttoat the Duke of CJonnaught is certain to oreturn and finish his term.

VICTORIAN LOAN AT A DISCOUNT.

LONDON, June 12. Victorian loan is at Hi per cem't. ■

KING GEORGE! AND SUNDAY TRAVELLING.

LONDON, June 12. The Dean of Canterbury states that 'King George has made it a rul© never fcO: travel on Sundays.

■BOILER EXPLOSION.

NEW YORK, June 12. An explosion of the boilers of a uteam barge at Racine, Wisconsin, killed seven and injured five people. The explosion tore the -.vessel to pieces, and a fire which followed burned! her to the water's edge. Twenty-five stevedores left a few mo:ments before the explosion. FILCHING JFRENCH ISLANDS.

LONDON, June 12.

The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent says that the French - Colonial Office has discovered that islands in the Pacific are being filched. A native named Taaroa, of Tahiti, local surveyor for France, sold three to an English company. The Government is now suing the company to restore them.

DECREASE IN EMIGRATION.

LONDON, June 12. The Times says that owing to the Jailing off in Australian emigration the States "have approached the shipping companies to amend the three years' contract, because the additional -accommodation is not now wanted. The decrease of emigration is attributed to the higjh wages among skilled labors in Britain. x ARGENTINE MEAT TRADE. '■!■ LONDON, June 12. Mr J. Robertsonj Member for Tyne-j side, in reply to a question whether j the action taken in regard to th© American Beef Trust by South America was in order to safeguard the British meat supply, said that the i Government was aware of the 'appire- \ tension caused to British firms engaged in the Argentine trade. He understood that the Argentine Government was considering the situation, and Britain would view with satisfaction any steps that Argentina might take to maintain unresirictecl trade.