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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 7

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[press association.] PANAMA CANAL QUESTION. ' . . NEW YORK, Feb. o. Mr Mitchell Innes, in ■& statement in connection with the Panama Canal,, says that he is certain the British Government believed America never intended to violate the Canal Treaty. He was sure that an, honorable settlement would bo achieved. JAPANESE VOTE OF CENSURE. TOKIO, Febi 5. The Diet passed a vote of censure on the Government after the Budget had! been introduced, and then &d- ---. journed for &ye days. * THE MALAYSIAN DREADNOUGHT. LONDON, Feb. 5. Armstrongs have secured the contract for the Malaysian Dreadnought. BUILDING COLLAPSES. LONDON, Feb. 5. A number of persons climbed on to the roof of a building to watch the Sunderland-Manchester cup tie at Sunderland. The building collapsed, and 15 persons were removed to the hospital, many sustaining broker limbs and several suffering from concussion. STAFF COLLEGE NOMINATION. LONDON, Feb. 5. Captain Duigan, a New Zealander Jias qualified and has been nominated to the Staff College at Quetta. AUSTRALIAN DIAMOND SYNDICATE. THE HAGUE, Feb. 5. Belgian and Dutch capitalists hav< founded an Australian diamond syndi cate at Amsterdam to finance prospecting in New South Wales, whew options have been acquired. BLACKBALLED. LONDON, Feb. 5. , The Reform Club blackballed Baron -de Forest, who was applying tor membership. Prominent Radicals/demand that the "ballot be rescinded, otherwise they will form a new club. Mr Lloyd--George and Mr Churchill have already resigned, andi Sir \ Edward Grey and Mr Haroourfc threaten to do likewise. '. , AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS. VIENNA, Feb. 5. Austria-Hungary lias ordered from Blohm Voss, of Hamburg, a floating dock of 40,000 ton capacity, and la'lso five submarines from the Germania yard at Kiel. CHINA'S FINANCIAL TROUBLES. PEKIN, Feb. 5. The French -and Russian Ministers have ruptured the loan negotiations, obejeting to the Roman aoict German sections. LOOTERS EXECUTED. PEKIN, Feb. 5. Forty unpaid soldiers, for looting, were executed.

A SPLENDID PROPOSAL.

LONDON, #eb. 5. The Government is negotiating with the principal Atlantic lines jointly to . bear the cost of equipping & vessel with a powerful wireless installation, to be stationed in the North Atlantic, to report upon the presence of icebergs and other dangers. FIRE ON THE MAGDEBURG. LONDON, Feb. 5.' ] xhe fire on tie Magdeburg at Corunna has been extinguished, the fourth hold being flooded.

NEW HIGH COURT JUDGE

MELBOURNE. Feb. 6 Mr Frank Duffy succeeds the late Judge O Coiuior as judge of t3ae Hieh Court.

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

. PERTH, Feb. 6. a x, ttr,' secretary, of the New bouth Wales Rugby Union, who lias returned from England and America considers that them is little to choos^ t>etween South African, Australian, and New Zealand football. He at> tributes the victory of the Africans in Wales to their splendid goal-kickine rather than any marked superiority of ground play. The amateur game in England, was.never at iso high, a standard, and there were never bigger attendances as a result of the visits of colonials. ■ rvvBOXING. • t>-' * v SYDNEY, Feb. 6. round °eßy •** *^c Geofma

BURNING FATAIimr.

\m a .MELBOURNE, »*. 6. Archer and her daughter, Mrs rT' iand the otter's daughte? aged, twelve months, . were fatally burned at Lake Oolac. Tie euSns wero blown on to a candle £ Petersen's other children escaped'