BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10718, 31 July 1895, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[jsr ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT,] I Special to Press Association.] THE ELECTIONS. LONDON, July 29. The sitting member for North-east Derby has been re-elected. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. July 80. At the Geographical Congress, Herr Neumeyr proposed an international expedition to the Antarctic, as terrestrial magnetism was a most important matter requiring solution there. Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr Murray, formerly of H.M.B. Challenger, warmly supported the proposal. The latter thought that the South Pole possibly contained one of the secrets of oceanic circulation. Sir G. S. Baden-Powell said that he was convinced that the Imperial Parliament would support an Antarctic expedition. A committee was appointed to frame resolutions on tho matter. RIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. MADRID, JULY 29. News has been received that the natives of Cabagan, a town in the northern extremity of the Island of Luzon, one of the Philippines, enticed a party of Spaniards into an ambush and killed several. Spanish troops, who were sent to punish the natives, killed 116 of them and burned Cabagan. EDUCATION IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, July 29. A hundred thousand delegates, representing the whole of Belgium, assembled in the capital to consider the education question. The meeting was conducted in an orderly and impressive manner. Resolutions were passed protesting against yielding the control of education to the priests, and demanding that it be made national and compulsory.