CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Br Elsgtbio Tilmbaph— Copybioht] [PEE PKEBB ASSOCIATION.] ENGLISH LAND BILL. (Received May 29th, 7.30 a.m.) London, May 28. Mr Lewis Harcourt has introduced a Bill to extend and cheapen accelerated machinery, and for providing small holdings and allotments in England and Wales. The County Councils are empowered to acquire land compulsorily by purchase or lease, subletting such land as allotments or small holdings, thus creating a class of municipal occupying. A Commissioner under the Board of Agriculture is empowered to act where the local authorities fail. The Bill was read the first time. When necessary, the purchasing or selling price will be fixed by arbitration. Local loans, repayable in 80 years will be made. The Treasury contributes £100,000 the first year. Small holdings are not to exceed 50 acres, and allotments may be increased from 1 to 5. Mr Harnonrt said the Bill would not set up dual ownership, or confer on the tenantly the sale of tenant right. It was not believed that compulsion would be widely resorted to. Mi- Long opposed compulsory hiring. Mr Collings thought it a mistake to keep the small -holders in the position of tenants. IMPERIAL EDUCATION BUREAU. Professor Sadler, in the Morning Post, suggests an Imperial Bureau of Education, at an annual cost of £10,000, including a comprehensive technical library and a carefully edited year book. He proposes that the Bureau should include a representative of each of the colonies, whose salary should be paid by the colony, and forming the Department of Secretariat resolved upon at the Imperial Conference, directly this ciganisation became independent of tlio Colonial Office. TROUBLE IN CHINA. (Received May 29th, 9.6 a.m.) Pekin, May 28. Tho rising at Wong Kong is attributed to the excessive taxation. There ate 30,000 rebels in the vicinity of Swatow. . Tokio, May 28". Newspapers at Tokio are uneasy lest China's policy for the recovery of national rights should create an anti-foreign mood, defying Government control. Pekin, May 28. Bandits destroyed the German Mission at Lieuchau. Local authorities saved the missionaries. German and British gunboats v are proceeding to Pakhoi. There is a serious rising in Wong Kong, 45 miles south-cast of Canton, and many Chinese officials have been killed, but the Europeans are unharmed. Chinese troops have been sent there. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. Paris, May. 28. Owing to the withdrawal of the subsidy, the Messageries Maritimes S.S. Co. has ceased regular services to Bordeaux, Senegal, Brazil, and Laplata. France will now pay the Elder Dempster Pacific Royal Mail Line £60,000 annually for carrying mails. VANDALS SPOIL SPLENDID BELL. Berlin, May 28. The great ball "Savoyarde," subscribed by the people of Saxony for the Church of the Sacred Heart, at Montmartre, has been irretrievably cracked by vandals. It cost several thousands sterling. [Montmartre is a north suburb of Paris.] REV. MARCUS DOBS. London, May 28. The Rev. Marcus Dods has been elected Principal of New College, at Edinburgh, in succession to the late Dr. Raney. WHITE MEN DEMORALISE BLACK. The Revs. D. D. Smith and Crowe, of Perth, are attending the Assembly of tho Church of Scotland. The Rev. Crowe described the condition of things in the north-west of Western Australia as shameful, because tho white men were dragging the blacks down. Sometimes the conduct of the whites rendered missions to heathen almost impossible. AMERICAN POLITICS. The Times states that tariff revision will not be touched during the coming session of Congress, but Taft, the strongest Republican candidate, failing Roosevelt, for the Presidency, will make revision a plank of his platform. The Democrats are alarmed at the prospect of the Republicans appropriating another of their strongest doctrines. MONEY TALKS. Baron Rothschild interviewed, said Mr Roosevelt's attack on the railways, the income tax, and other problems in France, and the Socialistic movement in England, was killing the goose, which laid the golden eggs. "AN ABSOLUTE LIE." London, May 28. Mr E. Robertson, M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, declared that the Standard's statement in reference to alleged reductions on the gunnery and torpedo staffs was an absolute lie. ENGLISH JOURNALISTS IN GERMANY. Berlin, May 28. Forty English newspaper editors and writers, including several of eminence, are visiting Berlin, Munich, Frantfort, Dresden, and Cologne as guests of the committee representing all sets of politicians and society.