CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 278, 29 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

fBY riBOTBJC TBLEG«>PH— OOPYWGHT] [VKK PREbS ASSOCIATION.] EDUCATION CONFERENCE. London, May 23. Mr S. L. Butcher, Member r the House of Commons lor Cambridge University, in presiding ivcr ni. Education Conerence, said *t had long been recognised that Ihe colonies were the great experimental laboratories of the Empire in social and political matters. He believed the colonies would have the same intellectual future as the Greok colonies, which were workshops of Hellenic mind, re-creating material sent from its Mother State and sending it hark renewed and revivified. Sir 'lor.v:.- Plunket opened a ' Jisjussiou on the methods of agricultural t-u •scat-ion. Akws John West and Tait (Victoria -s) delivered speeches which largely ranged around their Australian experience. Sir Philip Magnus said an Imper ialisnii-vt system of technical education v.ts prime and essential. It was nossible to do much by an interchange of students, and by the publication of such reports as New South Wales recently issued. Mr West gave a vigorous account of the influence of the technical training of farmers in building np the Australian butter industry. English farmers were suffering the lack of a similar opportunity. The^ cure of the cotton cushion scale disease in the orangeries of California, by the introduction of South Australian vedali cardinalis, showed the possibilities of inter-Imperial diffusion of technical knowledge. Mr Tate detailed an account of Victoria's co-ordinate scheme of agricultural education. References to agricultural high schools aroused general interest. CATHOLIC COLLEGES FOR WOMEN. The Vatican consents to the establishment of Roman Catholic colleges for women at_ Oxford and Cambridge under certain conditions. THE YELLOW PERIL. Mr Churchill states that the presence of many Chinese on the Rand adds to the general insecurity, and justifies Lord Selbourne acceding to tho Transvaal Government's request i for troops. STRIKERS RESUME. Router's Johannesburg correspondent states that the cavalry completely garrisoned the reef enabling numerous half-hearted strikers to resume work. INDIA'S AFFAIRS. Calcutta, May 28. Earl Minto withheld his assent to the Punjab's Colonisation Bill, which is designed to regularise the tenure of the Government. The Colonist commenting on the recent rioting, says it is "largely attributable to the natives misunderstanding the Bill.