BRITISH CABLES.
FATALITY IN A WARSHIP. Per United Press Association. By Electric Tclcgrapb.—Copyright. LONDON, April 18. Received 18th, 11.59 p.m. During speed trials at Malta the bursting of a high pressure cylinder killed three and injured four men aboard the battleship Prince of Wales. OBITUARY. Sir George O'Brien, late Governor of Fiji. By the capsizing of a boat in the Shannon live men were drowned. THE POSTAL CONFERENCE. ROME, April 18. Received ISlh, at 11.20 p.m. Sir J. G. Ward to-morrow proposes, and the representative of Egypt seconds, a resolution in favour of universal penny postage. Britain strongly opposes the motion. WORKERS’ VIEWS. Passed a motiion by largo majority in favour of women’s suffrage and condemned the Education Bill on tjie ground that it does not provide for secular education. The conference decided by 118 to 58 to maintain the party’s organisation and policy. THE GOSPEL OF CRAM. Presiding at the annual conference of the National Association of Manual Training Teachers at Sheffield, Sir .Joint Cockburn insisted j that manual training must occupy a I much more important place in the j curriculum of the schools if Britain hoped to maintain her great industries.
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Southland Times, Issue 19799, 19 April 1906, Page 3
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