BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 23

BRITISH AND FORE IGN.

LONDON, August 6. The second lot of Plaistow land-grabbers fled when the police arrested a few of them. August 7. Sir H. Cairipbell-Bannennan will acoepti the freedom of the city of Glasgow. After being two hours in the water Annette Kellennan abandoned her attempt to swim the English Channel owing to seasickness. The newspapers publish descriptions olf the new types of German cruisers an<J battleships. The latter are » thousand tons bigger than the Dreadnought, and will carry more big guns. The Kaiser, in the course of conversation with a French yachtsman in th« North Sea, is reported to have said that? anti-militarism was an international plague. August 8. Commenting on the loss of the battle- | ship Montagu, the newspapers emphasise the need of a proper naval salvage corps*. The Capetown correspondent of the Tribune states that George Woolends, an Australian, has been arrested on charges of mutiny and theft. The Duke of Connaught, while motoring' ' in Radnorshire, collided with another motorist. Both cars were smashed, ami the occupants were shaken, but nofe seriously. ■ Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, Labour M.P. rt on being interviewed, said that in the event of his visiting the colonies he woul<s go in his personal capacity and without strictly official credentials. He hopes totalk, with the leading men on all sides in the colonies so as to gain a- better .under* standing of theiv circumstances and difficulties and to discover analogies between their conditions and the conditions in) England, also to impart information contributing fuller knowledge- regarding thp problems engaging attention in Britain* I The Labourites in the Motherland and tho colonies had many common ties and interests. It would be useful to inquire as to whether the plans associated with the arbitration, laws, which were appar* 1 ently working well in New Zealand, were ! adapted under the different circumstances j to Britain, and to inquire into the various scheme of land settlement, and also the question of a minimum wage. At the inquest on the motor omnibus accident at Handcross Hill on July 12, when six parsons were killed and '21) ! injured, the jury found that nobody was J criminally responsible for the disaster, but that the driver, who was going too fast, I committed an error of judgment, and that the omnibus was unsuitable for country] roads. August 9. j ProfassoT David, of Sydney University, ! read a paper dn rich Australian coalfields before the British Association for thei Advancement of Science. Sounding balloons at the Paira Obser* vatory reached the unprecedented height of 42,000 ft. The temperature, was 15deg below zero. The Court of Appeal, in overruling « decision of the High Court, has decided 1 that the West Riding Council is not liable under the Education Act of 1902 to pay for denominational religious instruction itt I non-provided schools. The council had i separated the expenses of religious froitt the expenses t>f secular education in th« church schools, and refused to pay th» former. Mr Justice Moulton, in dissent* ing from the Master of the Rolls and Mr Justice Farwell, declared that the legislators, in his view, intended that the cosfl of religious instruction should be borne, by the rates in all cases. Thirty-seven thousand people in Great! Britain have signed an address expressing appreciation of Lord Milner's services in South Africa. An address from Cape Colony contained 20,0Uu signatures, ami one from Natal 3000. Lord Milner, mi acknowledging the address, expressed his gratitude for and gratification at th«r spontaneous assurances of th© people's con-i fidence and sympathy, and added that no personal annoyances he might have suffered affected him to anything like the same extent as the trials and dangers to which South Africa was once mor© being exposed 1 .; The British signatures to the address expressing appreciation of Lord Milner'a 1 services numbered 307,000. The great heat in Lancashire hafl incapacitated thousands of mill handgj chiefly women. Great interest is being taken in th# cricket championship. Surrey, Kent, York* shire, and Notts have each lost twtf matches. The Wallaroo is at Devonport under* ' going preparation as an instructional ship** Dr Arthur, of th« New South Waleal Immigration League, in a letter to th* Jewish Chronicle, suggests the establish* ment of a Jewish colony in Australia', pr«« ferentially in the Northern T?rritoGf fc