CHARGES OF BRIBERY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 147, 26 June 1902, Page 4

CHARGES OF BRIBERY.

A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN.

Press Association. Electric Telegraph,

Copyright.

London, June 23.

The Military Governor of Poltava and thirty-seven officers of the Russian Army have been tried by court-raarfcial for accepting bribe 3to exempt conscripts. Mr Andrew Carnegie's gifts to public libraries last week amounted to £30,000. A Decanville motor ran from Edinburgh to London (about 400 miles) without a stoppage, in 20$ hours. Read, the New South Wales swimmer, won the open half mile race on the Thames at Surbiton by. 50 yards, in lomin 2fsee. The magazine of the Chinese cruiser Kaichio exploded in the Yangtse River, and the vessel sank in half a minute. A hundred and iifty of the crew we're killed, only two b.ing saved. London, June 24. Mr Balfour, speaking in the House of Commons in reference to the Education Bill, said that instead of grants of £640,000 to the voluntary schoolsrepresenting five shillings per child — and £220,000 sterling to necessitous School Boards, Sir Michael HicksBeach, Chancellor of the Excheqner, was prepared to grant £1,760,000 making four shillings per child on the average attendance of all elementary schools, the remainder to be distributed among poor districts whose financial capacity would be shown by the amount able to be produced from a penny rate.