BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10640, 18 April 1906, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

♦ (Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright. ) LONDON, April 17. The Times publishes ar two nnd_a half column letter, in which Mr Henniker Heaton addressed Sir M. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, arguing in favor of universal penny postage. sent on a visit to Engianfl,iil'ii. l-viei J_ i the Times,suggests the New South Wales Public Instruction Act as well worthy of England's consideration as a solution that would be definite of the religious instruction difficulty. The annual Independent Labor Conference at Stockton, Snowden, declared that the party would give unqualified opposition to the Education Bill since the Government had surrendered to sectarian clamor. Mr Ramsay Maedonald was elected president. Dr Ingram, Bishop of London, in a letter to the Rural Dean, declares it intolerable that purely ethical treatment of the Bible should be permitted in schools on which the church has spent forty millions in order to educate children according to the tenets of the Church of England. The Education Bill violates the first principles of religious equality, and extends facilities that are practically useless. He proposes that u series of mass meetings should be held to protest against the measure. 1 (Received April 18. 8.48 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. Two thousand delegates, representing fifty-seven thousand National Union teach, ers, are holding a conference at Scarborough. Mr Sykes, tho President, expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the abolition of religious tests for teachers. He believed parents would bo_ satisfied with the Government retention of the Cowper-Temple clause in regard to teaching. A conference of the Shop Assistants' Union, meeting in London*, adopted a draft Bill, making early closing compul sory. The relations between Egypt and the Ports are becomiug increasingly strained, ATHENS, April 17. King Edward and Queen Alexandra are at Athens. They congratulated Mr Bosanquet, head of the British School of Archaelogy on the discovery of the Temple of Artemis on the banks of the River Eurotas. LISBON, April 17. The mutiny on the Spanish warship Vnseo tii Giiniu was rosultless. It was quelled without difficulty. It was chiefly prompted by sympathy for the mutineers on the Don Carlos. PIETERMARITZBURG, April 17. The Government' have thanked Regent and Bambaata's brother for loyalty,and promised to recompense them for the destruction of huts ancl cattle. The Government invited Regent to appoint loyal indunus to replace those who assisted Bam baa ta. BERLIN, April 17. The German Government has expressed deep sympathy with the Italian nation in the Vesuvius misfortune. NEW YORK, April 17. The Now York State Legislature has passed drastic Bills permitting policyholders in life insurance companies to act as directors, even if not stock-hold-ers, and prohibiting corporations making political contributions. Paul Morton, the president of the Equitable Life Assurance Company,states that, although 17,385 policies in the Equitable lapsed owing to the recent disclosures, the holders mo now applying for re-instatenicnt at the rate of ' 200 daily. . (Received April 18, 9.20 a.m.) Dowie m retiring from the leadership of the Zionists, accepted a low rate -of interest on his investments in Zion City Vohvia, an Australian, is- how supreme". The Churches in New York are threat enuig to prosecute the Jockey Club owl mg ,to an epidemic of gambling. Tlie Club, on the first day of the season, cut the wires connecting Belmont Park with one hundred pool rooms, and all local bets were declared off. „„ PEKIN, April 17. lhe Formosan earthquake wa s felt chiefly in the hills, where most of tlie buildings were destroyed -in- the March (•hocks. Tlie fact of the people being on the alert diminished the death roll. PARIS, April 17. Ihe postmen's- strike ia Paris has fizzled out. . SINGAPORE. April 17. It is stated at Singapore that u German firm has acquired a commercial coaling station at Pulalant Island, South-East Dutch Borneo. ALGIERS, April 17. Three German explorer.., with fifty Moorish horsemen escorting them, have made an extensive tour of the coast ou the western side of the Algerian frontier.