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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1915, Page 4

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» , [Peess Association.] LONDON, April 21. Treasury Bills at a fixed rate to tbefoxtent of £9,500,000 were- purchased? for the week. City and Suburban . Handicap:! Jester 1, Duadumesnos 2, Dan Riissef 3. W. Huxtry rode Black Jester and! Front rode Duadumesnos. Mr Harcourt, in the House of Commons, stated that 35 British!!• .subjects were killed in tho Singapore riots. NEW YORK, April 21. Eight additional towns and villages in Illinois have adopted prohibition. MELBOURNE, April 21. Inquiry into the loss of the trawler, Endeavor has opened. An ex-captainj and engineer gave evidence that witht a beam or following sea the trawler' took a lot of water. Her centre oi* gravity wns too high. The first steamer chartered by the Government has arrived with 680Qtons of Argentine wheat. : MELBOURNE, April 22. In the Assembly, Mr Elmslio moved! a want of confidence motion, base<l n mainly on charges of maladministration in respect to tho Government's purchases of wheat and the. regulation of the prices of food. The debate*' was adjourned. ' The London and Lancashire Fireinsurance Company has purchased tho shares of the Australian Mutual Insurance Society. The business - will be carried on in the name of that company, the directors continuing to--hold sets. The London and Lan<?ashir© Company will lun out its liabilities on current policies. SYDNEY, April 22. The following were included in the awards of diplomas at Hawkesbur^ College: Martin (Wanganui),'Ngata (Gisbome), and Johnston (Hawke'sBay), first year, received certificates; and Abraham (Taihape), seconci year, was placed third in ploughing. - Mr Fisher, writing to Mr Holman, in reforenco to Mr Nielsen's suggested! faster American mail service, say» that the Post Office is already paying a. much higher subsidy for overseasmails than the circumstances of the Postal Department justify. More- - over, with cheaper week-end deferred cables, it is' considered that there is-. no warrant for increasing the cost iw order to secure a shortening; of-the time in transit. He al&> doubts i£^ vessels ensuring. quickeij 'transit will"; be suitable tor trade purposes. PERTH. April 22, Two warders guarding 28 aboriginal prisoners working in the. grounds of Wyndham Gaol were " rushed and knocked down. The prisoners' scat* tored and the warders chased them* One was shot dead and two were-. wounded. Twenty-three.escaped.