BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright). y '" y • | ; LbNDON/<July '26?y y. An influential '--deputation-, of Catholics, headed by Archbishop Bourne, protested " .'y that the newjregaliitiohs ■must destroy the denominational icl^racter of the training ".y; colleges. ■■'-:. The^^ mainta_ied equity of, the regulations. He declared „.'''-.- ; that it "was riot desired to impair the present character of I; the colleges. If the regulations did destroy 'it the colleges'/ /-. '. situation .would be reconsidered, but the : Government claimed a fair trial. . . Smith was sentlkriced to servitude for, life, arid Churchill^ alias Chicago '■May,;. to . . 15 ; years, for atteriipting to murder Madi ame Guerin m Juirie last:- : ; • .! i 'The Board of' .Education has: stopped rifle, shooting at JSynsford and Shoreham ; public elementary schools. : y i ;' (Received July 27, 8.48 a.ni.). s It Is piratically certain the Rugby ■'. ' -.Union will send a strong team .'to New i Zealand m 1908. y? - . ' The Natal Government complain that, while the Transvaal's war contribution' ; ; —amounting to thirty million pounds-".:.. • : was waived^. Natal; s £700,000 was not re- ; ducejl, and £520,(^ due for rents arid • harbor has not been paid. l At a meeting bi the Permanent I_t- ■ ternational Sugar Committee there were indications that the signatory Goyern- >. ments .were desirous to find avßolutibh which would allow Britain to remain a' 1 party to the Brussels -Convention. : ' Reuter's Tangier correspondent states . that a messenger who has returned from '■■ Raisiili's camp states that the flakmoss <.' tribe is willing tb surrender Kaid Mc-. , Lean provided the| Sultan personally proceeds to the country to pardon them, .ex-" . 1 cuse them from Service m the Imperial; , Army, and relieve them of taxes. vThe ' tribe refuse to Oliver Raisuli. but Avill i guarantee his good behaviour it pardoned . L- and his property returned. - : The Rev- J. Scbtt Lidgett was elected • President of the Wesleyan Conference; Sir H. C. Bannerman dropped several i more Bills, 'hoping, that Parliament would - rise on August 24th. ; -PRETORIA, July 26.f : ' -. Tlie Government have withdrawn tho Native Beer Bill; t : = \=y y.y. ". CAPETOWN July 26.; j ' Two thousand ! Chinese employed : *at I the' Simmer, and Jack mine have- petition- - ed the Government to allow them to ref new their contracts. '-■■":■ » - TiMOROCCO, July 26/:- --, Raisuli declares' that if the tribesmen . ; i at tlie- Sultan's, command attack him he ': will kill", Mac LeanJ 1 ' .-"'■ -V: " v ! : , NEW YORK, Julffy 26. r (The Governor of North Carolinarefasl ed to obey the ruling of tlie Federal CiiS - cuit Court declaring that the .State law i on railway rates was unconstitutional, and I rejects all compromise until the 'railway .""-.' . company comply with the law. A seribus [ conflict between the State arid Federal [ authorities is feared ; involving even* the ■ use of Federal troops to enforce the [ Court's order. The press condemn the * : . Governor's action. y -"^ • The yProtectivelTariff * Association de- \ nounces tlie American-German agreement fcl asyoontraty to laV arid policy; Prbtect tion was unfair to American importers -'":• 3 and demoralising to the Customs,,, besides : i being an infringement on . the right of the -: legislature. r j - 'ST. PETERSBURG. July 26. s :. Tlie bureau of /the Social Revolution- ■-. ".' ary party has resolved, owing to the Government's continuous terrorism and map. > sacres, that terror|st acts against high of« . ficials ought to' continue. -They advise , tlie active boycotting of the Duma eleor tions the blowing up of electoral as- \ semblies, and the destruction bf lists of » eleotors. j A fresh plot against the life of the Czar -. ) has been discovered- m St. . Several. arrests were riiadeV"V" . / BOMBAY^tfuly 26; I Tlie editor of Yugahtar, 'a native nfews- [ paper with.a large, circulation m. Eastern r Bengal, has been ; sentenced' to a, year's j imprisonment .for preaching armed revolt, i Seven National Volunteers at Barisal, m . the Bengal district,' were sentenced/to 5 terms of imprisonment for breaking 1 up » markets to prevent the sale of Bntishr made goods. ;! ; ' . "