BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1906, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[by EIECTEIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT ] [;a PES3S association.] SECULAR EDUCATION. LONDON, May 20.—The Yorkshire Liberal Federation, by a large majority, voted in favor of secular education in schools. GERMAN BURGOMASTERS. LONDON, May 20.—The German Burgomasters, at present visiting London, are delighted at King Edward’s manifest cordiality. MUSICAL HONORS. "LONDON, May 20—Frances Hutchens, a New Zealander, has been awarded the Verndale Sennet scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. CHINESE TRADE. LONDON, May 20.—A1l the Towers are supporting Great Britain’s demand for adequate explanations and assurance in connection with the recent Chinese Customs edict. THE SULTAN’S INDIGNATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 20. The Porte reprimanded and punished the commander of the troops responsible for the removing of the boundary pillars at Elfrah, and also another officer for insulting an officer belonging to the cruiser Minerva. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. NEW YORK, May 20—Eight towns a Northern Winconsin have been deasfated by forest fires. Thirty perious were killed. The damage is estreated at a million dollars. A great iron of settled country is threatened. JAPANESE TARIFF. NEW YORK, May 20.—The anlouucomeut that Japan intends to .dept a protective tuvi i has caused larm in commercial circles and the lewspapers in the United States. TRAINING FOR TEACHERS. LONDON, May 20.—Mr Birrell has minced Air Asquith to generously übsidise local authorities who erect raining colleges for teachers. ANGLO-RUSSIAN COURTESY. LONDON, May 20.—The Daily Teegraph states that Admiral Sir A. v. Wilson’s home fleet visits Kronsadt at the end of July. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. VIENNA* "May 20.—Lightning killd fifteen of a funeral party at the uiniahn Church in Austrian Silesia, ml burned, crippled or stunned S 3 others. PRICE OF TIN. LONDON, May 20.—The fall in the price of tin is regarded as the natural reaction from the too rapid advance. and it is hoped that it will tend to check wild gambling. Present quotations are; On spot, 1935; three months, 188 s.

THE AMERICANS GO ONE BETTER. NEW YORK, May 20.-Thc House of Representatives at Washington have voted £2.000.000 'for a battleship to surpass the British battleship Dreadnought. TORPEDO BOAT DISASTER. LONDON. May 20.—The British torpedo boat No. 56, while in tow by the cruiser Arrogant, capsized at Damietla. Seven of her crew were drowned. FAMILY OF SIX BURNED. LONDON, May 20.—A tenement at Stratford, Essex, was burned and a family of six, including three generations* was killed. Another family displayed great heroism. REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS. PARIS, May 18.—Thomson (French Minister of Marino) in an address to the electors of Algeria, declared that it would be most imprudent for France (" reduce her armaments. She must maintain her position as the second naval power.