CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8106, 8 October 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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EDUCATION.

(Received October 7, 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, c*tober *. At Mr Lloyd George's instance the National Convention of Welsh Educational authorities at Cardiff recommended that in the event of the Defaulting Authorities Act being enforced over any area the educational authority should declare its inability to fulfil the duties imposed by the Act of 1902, and take legal action to relieve itself of the responsibility of maintenance of a central public elementary school. RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRESS. fPRISS ABBOCIATION.] ST. PETERSBURG, October 7. Out of 160,000 artisans in Moscow, Vladimir, and the chief centres of textile trades, 50,000 are workless. A SENSATIONAL TRIAL. UOME, October 7. The trial of the beautiful Countess ' Linda Bonterturi and her lover, Professor Seochi, for murdering her husband, is intensely interesting in Rome. There are astonishing revelations. j UNITED STATES NAVY. ' NEW~YORK, October 7. Admiral Sterling recommends important additions to the United States navy on the Asiatic station. UNEMPLOILU IN ENGLAND. I (Received October 8, 1.9 a.m.) LONDON, October 7. I'lvd Government has summoned a conference of various Boards of Guardians to formulate a scheme to cope with the distress. i PAN -BRITANNIC CONFERENCE. (Received October 7, 10.60 p.m.) ■' CAPETOWN, October 7. South Africa generally welcomes the idea of a pan-Britannic Conference. BOERS WHO "OWN NO COUNTRY."

CAPETOWN, October 7.

The eight recalcitrant Boers return to the Transvaal on making the decliration of allegiance.