BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13891, 27 October 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric • Telegraph—Copyright. ADVERTISING THE COMMONWEALTH. LONDON, October 25. The Agents-General are preparing a joint report on emigration and the methods of advertising the Commonwealth. HARBOUR WORKS AT GENOA. LONDON, October 26. The Toulon squadron and portion of Lord Charles-Beresford's is participating in a fete at Genoa, where the King and Queen of Italy are inaugurating harbour works. AN INDIAN DEMAND. Router's correspondent at Lahore asserts that the ruling chiefs, nobility and gentry of India are making increased demands that a Prince of the British Royal House should* rule the country, with advice from the Ministry, the Go-vernor-General being Prime Minister, and the leading chiefs Councillors. PAID LABOUR MEMBERS. Sir 'Edward Clarke and Sir Robert Redd have given their opinion that the Trade Union rule with regard to the payment of members of the House of Commons is legal. A test action is being prepared. unless-Mr Stuart Sinim, the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, who ruled otherwise, reverses his recent decision* ' . (The Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies refuses to allow Trades Unions to pay members of Parliament, thus reversing his predecessor's ruling.) THE COLOUR LINE. WASHINGTON, October 25. President Roosevelt's sympathetic references to the Southern difficulties are winning golden opinions. He warns the whites to avoid misunderstandings with the blacks! The two races must work out their destinies as law-abiding Americans. "\