A METHODIST SCHEME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7826, 19 June 1909, Page 1

A METHODIST SCHEME.

■ LONDON, June 18. Sir R. W. Perks has initiated a scemo for an inteichange of Wesleyan Methodist preachers between Britain and Canada, and the proper distribution of Methodist immigrants. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE. Egner and, JBLblmstroen's telephone was tested 'between ,Stockholm and Paris, a distance of t 1800 mites, via Copenhagen ant} 1 Berlin, The messages were perfectly 'autHMSi A SYSTEM OF INTERCHANGE. ■ Sir It. y?V, jerk's has' initiated a scheme of interchange pf Methodist preacher's between Britain and Canada J and the proper distribution of.: Methodist immigrants) ' ' i LABOUR FOR THE RAND MINES. Lord Crowe will permit the recruiting of 3000 British Central African natives for the Rand. ANGLO-SIAMESE CONVENTION. St. Petersburg, June is. The Novoe Vremya publishes a* sympathetic article on the Anglo-Siamese Convention, : which it describes !as a severe blow .to German aspirations. HANSEATIC LEAGUE. BERLIN, June, 18. A powerful political association has been founded in Germany, entitled the Hanseatic League, '-to aggressively safeguard conim'erce and industry against the agrarian element. RUSSIA,AND GERMANY. ST. PETERSBURG, June'lß,;,. A . Reuter Correspondent says that Russian newspapers shpw little thusiasm over the meeting pf the Czar and the Kaiser) ■ The Nqvoyorem'ya publishes a sympathetic article on the Anglo-Siamese Convention, whiclms described as a severe blow to German .aspirations. The' Bourse Gazette declares that the time is past when the Russian Policy depends on Berlin. Other papers advocate < the maintenance of the present, relations with France and Britain. '. , r TELEPHONE SYSTEM. MELBOURNE, June; 18. The Federal Cabinet has decided to discard the, telephone system adopted by the late Government, and revert to the old system,,; which .allows 2000 free calls. ■*""■'■■'<{ •'-' ' "