CABLEL NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 351, 23 August 1907, Page 2

CABLEL NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

ma LBT mIMTOOC TILMEAFH— OOPT-UO-TT.j (PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUSTRALIAN TARIFF. London, August 22. The Chairman of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce declares that in some cases the new Australian tariff is prohibitive. He intends to confer i on the matter with other Chambers. I When Mr Churchill announced in . the House of Commons that Sir W. ! Lyne was unable to defer the collecI tion of new duties, Mr Harold Cox ■ shouted, " Will Birmingham commer- . cial men take this lying downP" The Daily Chronicle declares that the action of Mr Carruthers is a remarkable symptom of particularist ' feeling surviving in some States. I A WORKER'S BANK. ! New York, August 22. I The State of New York has granted a charter to the Wa_ge Earners' Capital Alliance, with a view to the establishment of a bank to look after the interests of labour. The capital of the bank will be £2,000,000 and the labouring classes will be the chief stockholders. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. Halifax, August 22. There is excitement in Newfoundland owing to the announcement that j it is intended to submit the fishery j dispute to the Hague Arbitration I Court. | Ministers refuse to say whether they concur. THE EDDY CASE. New York, August 22. Mrs Eddy's son's suit against the ; Christian {science trustees has been j withdrawn, owing to an agreement out of court. ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES. London, August 22. Reuter asserts that the Roman Congregation of the Council has issued a decree radically changing the conditions of Roman Catholic mar- . riages, which in future will be inj valid everywhere unless celebrated in I the presence of a priest and two witI nesses, except in districts without a i priest for a whole month, when Roman Cathalics are validly married if they express their consent in the presence or two witnesses. The new law will operate next Easter. RETRENCHMENT IN TRANSVAAL Pretoria, August 22. Twelve hundred Transvaal civil seri vants, railway employees and constables will be discharged in September, on the grounds of retrenchment. SMALL HOLDINGS. London.' August 22. Government has abandoned the Scottish Small Holders' Bill, though Lord Lansdowne said that the Lordwould pass the second reading if it 1 was understood that it would be amended in committee, with a view tc rejecting the proposal to establish a Scottish Land Court on the Irish model, but introducing provisions closely resembling the English Small i Holdings Bill. , Lord Ripon declared it was waste of time to proceed with the Bill. Lord Tweedmouth said the amendments suggested would eviscefate the Bill. • Lord Rosebery declared that the responsibility 'of postponing legislation to ameliorate the condition of th« crofters rested on Government, sine* the Lords were prepared to preserve the clauses dealing with crofters. BRITISH STRIKE BREAKERS. (Received August 23rd, 8.35 a.m.) 1 Antwerp, August 22. Fifteen hundred more British strike i breakers have landed here. 1 TRANSVAAL LOAN BILL. London, August 22. , The Transvaal Loan Guarantee Bill was read a third time. LABOR PROBLEMS. (Received August 23rd. 8.42 a.m.) London, August 22. Mr Anstey, addressing the EastHam Labor League, declared that although the Australian Labor movement was not perfect, it is immensely ahead of the British, the latter lacking unity, without which nothing could be accomplished.