BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1469, 18 April 1911, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY ELECTBIO TELEGBAPH —COPYBIGHT. (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received April 18, 9.20 a.m.) THE CHAMPAGNERS' RIOTS. Pars, April 17. There have been -vyholesale resignations in municipalities in the Aube district. Administration is at a standstill and urgent official correspondence remains unopened. Deaths and births are unregistered and marriages are not being celebrated.

A FATHER'S REVENGE. Rome, April 17. A youth was arrested for eloping with a farmer's daughter near Naples. He was released on bail, and the far-' ruer, with his sons, seized the youth and beat hini into insensibility. He was then thrown into a courtyard, where dogs horribly mutilated and partially devoured him. He subsequently died. His assailants fled. HYDROPHOBIA EPIDEMIC. Madrid, April 17. An epidemic oi hydrophobia is raging in the provinces of Pontevedra and Corunna. There have been several deaths. THE EDUCATION OF NATIVES. London, April 17. Mr Muir, Cape representative at the education conference, in an interview, said that the bilingual difficulty was nothing compared with the problem of providing a common policy for native education in the four union provinces where the status of natives differed gieatly. A FATAL FALL. Miss Peggy Fulton, • actress, the daughter oi Sir Forest Fulton recorder ol London, who fell from a balcony at Johannesburg on Friday has died from injuries.

A TREACHEROUS TRIBE,

Tangier, April 17

A tribe hitherto devoted to the bultan, has joined the rebels, who are attacking Jb'ez. There is an "incipient revolution amongst the defenders, aud provisions are short. Colonel -Yiangin's artillery are bombarding tne enemy's camps.

PHTHISIS BILL,

Capetown, April 17.

The Government proposes to amend the Phthisis Bill authorising employers to deduct contribution from miners' wages towards compensation. the Miners Association demands the maintenance of the original form of the Bill. A BYE-ELECTION DUE. The sudden death of Mr Earl H. Carlisle causes a bye election " for douth Rjjriningham. A £10,000,000-LOAN.

British, German, and American bankers are participating in a £10,----000,000 5 per cent, loan for the purpose of establishing currency reform and the development of Manchuria;. THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC. Lisbon, April 17. The Government has issued a strong manifesto to the nation, describing the monarchy as a regime of treachery and robbery. The Government beseeches citizens to bury their private rivalries and unite in choosing for parliament men who are distinguished for then- honesty and competency in order to normalise the conditions and thus definitely concentrate the republic.