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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10010, 28 November 1908, Page 1

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[By Electbic Telegraph.—Coptkioht.J (Peii Press Association.) Received November 27, at 10.10 p.m. London, November 27. The House of Lords will take a division on the Licensing Bill to-day. Mr Haldane, speaking at the City Liberal Club, said the House of Lords' attitude on the Licensing Bill marked the great, cleavage .between themselves and a large majority of the members of the House of Commons. The serious situation on the question had come to stay until it was somehow settled. Calcutta, November 27. A bomb was thrown, in a train crowded with Europeans entering Barrackpur, but caused no injury to aaiyone. 1 Tokio, November 27. The Mikado -gave an audience to Dt Svcn licdin, who was made the recipient of the University's and' Geographical Society's gold medials. London, Xovember 27. The Sardinia was laden with machinery, Manchester fine goods, and a general cargo. The outbreak is a mystery. The Duke of Connaught defrayed the cost of the pilgrims' burial. A sheikh (a survivor), in thanking him, warmly expressed the Moslems' gratitude. Received Xovember 27, at 10.55 p.m. Durban, Xovember 27. Bambaata's son testified that Dinizulu was watching the Title practice at Usutu, and was supplying arms and ammunition for the purpose. London-, Xovember 27. Mr Leif Jones, speaking at Appleby, urged the Government to deal with the financial portions of the Licensing Budget and to return the temperance portions ior the House of Lords' reconsideration. By 322 to 157 Mr Runeiman's Education" Bill was read a- second time. Both sides were tacitly emancipated from party discipline, voting according to their personal inclination. Mr Asquith contended that the Nonconformists has gained the substance of what they had received a pledge to obtain, "and the Church had the right of entry to council schools. The Church, moreover, might elect their own school committees. Single school areas would not tie an expense on the rates, but would ho carried on with the Exchequer's liberal assistance. Mr Asquith mentioned that the Catholics of Scotland recognised contracting out, and the average grantfor each Catholic child there was 40s, compared with 50s in the present Bill The subsequent speeches were a continuous stream of criticism or half-hearted commendation. Mr Balfour, earlier, emphasised that nobody regarded this compromise as a final settlement, and nobody was prepared to defend it on its merits, and he foresaw strife. Mt Asquith promised to accept amendments in Committee. The Times, in mentioning the growing mistrust in the exposition of the.- detdals of the Bill, declares that- if peace ls,.desired, the Government- has no time to lose in announcing its amendments. Received November 27, at 11.10 p.m._ London, November 27. The majority on the Education Bill included Mr Austen Chamberlain, Sir A. Lyttelton, Sir J. 11. Kennaway, Sir P. Magnus, Sir W. R. Anson, and a score of other Unionists. The minority included 67 Nationalists, the bulk of the Labor party, Messrs Balfour, Wyndham, Long, Akers-Douglas, Earl Percy, Lord RobertCecil. Mr Joynson-.Hicks, "and some other Unionists, and Messrs Lough, Pickersgill, and Yoxall. There were many ahsentions irom voting. Paris, Xovember 27. A tremendous sensation litis been created in Paris by the arrest of Madame Steinheil for complicity in the murders perpetrated on the 30th May. She confessed to numerous unfounded versions which she supported for the purpose of sheilding some personage whose arrest she said would Jtstound them. [The house occupied by M. Adolphe Steinhei!, the well-known painter, was entered, and the artist and his mother-in-law, Mine. Japy, were murdered. An attempt was also made to kill Mine. Stein hei-l, the wife of the painter, who was gagged and bound. The assassins placed a cord round her neck, and drew it tight, leaving her for dead.] Constantinople, November 27. There are indications of grave unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Austrian repression is causing an exodus of small parties of Moslems, and there is alarm and resentment at Constantinople. Vienna, November 27. Rumors of Servian hands entering Bosnia created a semi-panic on the Vienna and Buda-Peth lionises, until Baron von Aerentlia! contradicted them. Received November 28, at 0.35 a.m. London, Xovember 27. Mr Whitelaw Reid at the Thanksgiving Day banquet in London, in emphasising America's peace-loving relations, denounced the mischief-makers and their tireless industry and ingenuity. He remarked that with Japan in particular it would soon be seen how firm was the concert of action and how ridiculous and childish the pretence about discord. He added that the changes in China involved no peril to America's long-established friendship. The Times' Belgrade correspondent advises that St. Petersburg sees less prospect of a conference in the near future. The Bosnian question will be left open, and Servia. and Montenegro must aw-Ait a more favorable juncture for a settlement of their claims. Received Xovember 28, at 1.5 a.m. Berlin, Xovember 27. The Vossische Zeitung, in a violent article, accuses Briteinj of prompting the boycott on Austrian goods, and warns the Young Turks to ben-aro of her, or their cause is ruined. London, November 27. The Bishop of Auckland, m a letter to the Times, urges the Motherland to teach her daughter nations that religion in schools is necessary for the moral health of the State.