CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 283, 5 June 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

- — »• ftY W.BCTBJO XKUKB/PH — OOPTKJOHT] [PER PAtfcfl ASSOCIATION.] EDUCATION CONFERENCE. London, June 4. - The Education Conference has closed. Representatives of the Education Department's meeting in private, resolved that a central bureau is essential to encourage effective continuous exchange of information between the several Education Departments, and further agreed that a complete recognition of teachers'certificates is impossible in view of the variety of local conditions. It was resolved that it is desirable " that financial administrative arrangements be made to enable teachers and inspectors to acquire experience in various parts of the Empire. BOWLING. Hove beat the New Zealand bowlers by 56 to 28. Brownswood beat the New Zealand bowlers by 46 to 26. SEDITION IN INDIA. Calcutta, June 4. Lord Minto, in a resolution adopted in Council, empowered the Indun local Governments to prosecute in »11 cases of the publication of beditious and subversive writings. GERMANY AND AMERICA. New York, June 4. The amended United States Customs regulations agreed upon with Germany will become effective £ri Ut July. The changes in the present irritating system of Customs administrations apply not only to impor* tations from Germany, but to all countries equally. BRITISH POLITICS. (Received June sth, 7.5 2a.m.) London, June 4 In the House of Commons, Sir Henry Cainpbell-Bannerman, m reply to members, complaining ci the backwardness of the Governments Bills, said it was largely due io ibe drafters attending last autumn «.< ssion. He announced that there would be no autumn sessi >n till 1908. The Irish Council and Passive Resistors' Bills would be dropSBd. A comprehensive Education ill would be introduced in 1908. Licensing reform would be tlu> first measure in 1908. The Irish University Bill would be postponed, and the fate of the Miners' Eight Hours and Housing measures was Jonbtrnl. He proposed to pass, in 1907. Finance and Army Reform, Eugitsn and Scottish Small Holdings, Criminal Appeal and Patents Bills. Also Scottish Valuation, Evicted Tenants, and Women on Local Authorities 1 Bill. He added that a resolution dealing with the House of Lords Would be introduced during the present month. The Irish and Nonconformists are disappointed- at Sir Henry CampbellBannerman's announcement. Mr Ramsay Macdonald bitterly complained at there being no autumn session. Tho Daily News thinks it good strategy to have prepared strong measures for 1908, with a view or fighting the House of Lords' veto. The Daily Chronicle dwells on the prospect of a dissolution after next session. The Times says the congestion in 1908 will be worse than now. Interviews with leading Nonconformists show great dissatisfaction at the dropping of Mr McKenna's Education Bill. Further dropping of Bills is expected in another fortnight. The discussion of the resolution relating to the measures will occupy several sittings. CANADA-tCAPE MAIL. Ottawa, June. 4. Canada has renewed the CanadianCape mail contract for a period of 5 years at a cost of £20,000 per annum. 'FRISCO CARGO SERVICE. London, June 4. The Daily Mail's New York correspondent says the Americans expect a considerable increase of exports from the monthly service to be established in August between San Francisco and Auckland and Syduey, carrying American and British mails. The new line will mainly be established by British -enterprise, backed by Andrew Weir Company. STRIKE SETTLED. Paris, June 4. The Frerch Minister of Marine and the Naval Committee, having promised to consider further concessions as mere matters of detail and not of principle, the naval reservists have terminated the strike. THE BALLOON ACCIDENT. London, June 4. It is feared that as the balloon was seen to be splashing in the sea and then to suddenly rise, that the occupants jumped or were washed out. Hopes of their safety have been abandoned at Aldershot. OBITUARY. Obituary — Sir C. M. Palmer, Liberal member of the House of Com? mons for Jarrow since 1885. [Sir C. M. Palmer was 85 years of age, and was married three times. He was created a baronet in 1886: sat continuously in the House of Commons for 32 years. He was a large coplminer, and ironmaster, and. founded Jarrow.] DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND. London, June 4. Extra police have been employed in twelve Irish districts, including seven counties, owing to disturbances. Tho Nationalist majority on the Bench at Carriek-on-Shannon acquitted the ringleaders in the cases of unlawful assembly and intimidation in connection with the anti-grading movement. Several Magistrates are being boycotted. • «• Lord Loreburn, Lord Chancellor, in a letter, censures the Nationalist Magistrates of Rqscommon for quitting their respective districts to decide other cases in three towns. WEALTH AND THE STAGE. Mr Oscar Lewisohn, the copper king's son, married Miss Edna May at the registry office at Windsor. KILLED BY A BUFFALO. London, June 4. Advices from Uganda state that a wounded buffalo killed Dr. Densham, a member of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. JOHANNESBURG STRIKERS. The Daily Mail's Johannesburg correspondent says the public consider the strikers are beaten. Only Boers and Africanders are being recruited. THE MATRIMONIAL SWINDLES. Dr. Heibert was acquitted of complicity in the matrimonial swindle cabled on November 22nd. . The Gebron's case is proceeding. [Marie Pesnel and Gebrons, who had been associated in extensive matrimonial swindles in Paris, were arrested on November 22. Dr. Hei- . bert, a Canadian doctor domiciled in London, had been murderously, attacked by Gebrons, necessitating bis going to a hospital, and Pesnel tried 1 3 compromise him by accusations of participation in the swindles.] , rHE WERTHEIMER BURGLARY. Edward John Marris, picture dealer at Clapham, has been remanded an a charge of receiving Wertheimer's piotures and instigating ' the burglary, according to Rodoni's statements. . £4,000,000 FOR STEAMERS. London, Juno 4. The Atlantic Shipping Combine iave ordered from Harland and Wolff, Belfast, nine steamers, costing four million pounds, including a Dominion liner, two boats for the Eeyland line. THE MAIL SYNDICATE. Mr Allan Hughes, of the firm of Dirt. Potter and Hughes, in a letter ;o the Times, denies that he assisted to organise the new Mail Syndicate. He says he has no interest in he syndicate, and never had. Woods' Great Peppermint Care for" 3oaghs and Colds never fails. It W md 2a 6d. UNEQUALLED* PIG FOOD. Now is the time to fatten off your tigs. There is no food for this purpose equal to " SUCROSINE," either n .quality or price. Obtainablo om all leading Storekeepers.