BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10302, 9 March 1905, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

iPress Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright.) LONDON, March 8. . J. H. Dawson, sentenced in Deqember to twelve years' imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud, and who was released on bail pending an appeal on. u point of law, surrendered for imprisonment.

Dr. Montgomery, late Bishop of Tasmania, (not Archdeacon Montgomery) was appointed prelate of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Daily Chronicle reports Unit Messrs Sifton and Fielding and Sir W. Mulock, Canadian Ministers, have resigned, objecting to the establishment of separate Catholic schools in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. They contended that the North American Act reserves education for provincial jurisdiction, and the Ontario and Quebec compromise does not apply to other provinces. Sir Wilfrid Laurier threatens a dissolution if there are further resignations. (Received March 9, 9.44 a.m) LONDON, March 8. Lord Tennyson has been appointed vicepresident of the United Empire Trade League. >& Gollan's racehorse Seahorse lia* been sold.

Mr Malcohnson, in a letter to th*. Times, declares that the Weslralian laws not only permit the enslavement of aborigines, but compel hhn to make other very strong allegations. " CAPETOWN. March 8. Visser, the lnist "Cape rebel remaining in prison, has been released. NEW YORK.. March 8. Five thousand employees struck on the subway and elevated 'railways of New York. Inexperienced hands were- then engaged, the public riding at their own risk. By a collision on the subway four were killed and thirty injured. (Received March 9; 7.45 a.m.) BERLIN, March 8. The Russian Budget Committee, by 16 to 10, rejected the War Minister's request for 20 additional squadrons of cavalry. The Kaiser has withdrawn four 'warships from foreign stations, and increases the home fleet to twelve battleships, 3ik« Britain.