HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12932, 11 October 1907, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

United Pr«* Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. SIR E W. HAMILTON. LONDON, October 9. Sir E. W. Hamilton, Permanent Financial Secretary to tho Treasury, ie retiring on grounds of ill-health. JEAN GEIURDY. M. Jean Gerardy, tho 'cellist, was married to Miss Amelia McQuade, of Sydney. THEFTS FROM FRENCH CHURCHES. PARIS, October 9. Antoino Thomas, a merchant of Clermont Ferrand. has boon arrested. Ho confessed that ho had been engaged in tho systematic robbery of antiquarian valuables in French churches. Ho alleges that many of tho clergy connived at his opentions. THE .MINERS' FEDERATION. (Hcivvcd October 10th, 10.49 p.m.) LONDON. October 10. Tho Miners' Federation, unanimourfy recommended a Bill providing for the nationalisation of mines, and unanimously favoured tho abolition of tho House <>f Lord**. SHIPOWNERS AND UNIONISM. Delegations of tho Shipping Federative of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothemburg, and other places meet tho British Shipping Federation in Londuo on Tuesday to concert mensures of defence, agniiu-t unionism. THE VAXCOi:VKR RIOTS. VANCOUVER, October 10. One a nti-Ja panose rioter was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Tho trial of others is proceedPROGRESS IN CHINA. PEKIN, Octobe.r 10. An Imperial Edict has been issued ordering tho adoption of uniform weights and measures throughout China witSiin six months. SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION. CAPIvTOWN, October 10. Mr Walton, tho Treasurer, declared that t.ho South African oniloniea wero unable to afford federation, but that tho eflcrifices required for unificationwero infinitesimal compared -with, tho advent age.