HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9297, 25 June 1906, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

J [By Electric Telegrai'h.—CoprinonT.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 24, at 4.22 p.m. r London, June 23. c Mr BirrelTs amendment to'the fourth r clause of the Kducation Bill provides tor a ballot in order that parents shall have an > opportunity of expressing their wishes. No resit shall be paid if extended facilities are granted, but it these are refused the owners may appeal, to the Board of Education, and " the'latter may order extended facilities, or. 1 if tilw?y think it expedient tinder the special' circumstances, may continue State aid. without the levying of a. rate. The school is thus freed from, popular control and voluntary subscriptions shall replace rates. Tl.;is form of contracting out is limited to live years. New York,' June 2a. > In the American House of Representatives Mr J. Pv. Mann, in supporting the Pure Food Bill, exhibited the horrors <jf x adulterated popper, olive oil, and other articles. He alleged that bottled cherries, picked green, had the color removed until acid, and were then dyed bright- red with an aniline dye. At sample of the dye taken from a bottle of cherries dyed a \ piecei of cloth scarlet. In a bottle la.beT'.ed pure honey the contents were found to 1 be entirely glucose. The bottle contained a dead bee to deceive the public. Patent medicines were shown containing opium and cocaine, and were declared to be large- ? ly responsible for the alarming increase in t the opium and cocaine habits. Received June 24. at 4.31 p.m. New York, June 23. t Armour (Limited), the Swift Company, I and the other meat packers whose wimes were cabled on -the 13th as being found guilty of accepting concessions from the j Burlington Railroad Company on cxj>orfc ( shipments, and also the Burlington Railroad Company itself, were floed 15.000 , dollars each. George Thomas, a freight ] broker, was fined 5000 dollars and si\uI fenced to four months' in a penitentiary. L. Taggart,' another broker, was lined 4000 dollars and three months' pemtoni .tiary. j * Tly» United States Senate adopted a resolution expressing the nation's horror at the massacre of Russian Jews ard hearty sympathy with the bereaved. The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor is organ-Urng on behalf of lalwr candidates. St. Petersburg, Juno 23. The Duma, by a large majority, adopted a resolution demanding the resignation of the Ministry and the formation of a responsible to the Duma, r ' London. June 23. 1 The French barque Gael Ins arrived f from Melbourne. She met tenilic weather . on the 25th day out. The captain and a ) boy were washed overboard and drowned. ; Received June 24, at. 4.47 p.m. London, June 23. • ' The Radical newspapers dislike Mr Birrell's cumbrous amendments in clause 4. which they describe as the safely valve to sectarian differences. The Daily Chronicle says that any large amount of contracting out- is not likely. It is intended .as <a> safeguard against the abuse i of power on the part of the local authority The Daily Telegraph says the proposal to denrive a school of a rate in. aid is a distinct invitation to local authorities to release the arrangements, and save the rates. Mr Balfour, speaking at Church House, in the presence of the Arehhisb-op of Canterbury, declared that Mr Birrell's hn- 1 politic attempt on the different, churches' right- to teach their own children had roused .and united every section. The | amendments in clause 4 bad intensified the confusion, a.nd had not diminished the tin- ' fairness of the Bill. '