BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13389, 12 September 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyrighi ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL. LONDON, September 10. In- addressing the Catholic Conference at Preston, Archbishop Bourne declared that- it was impossible to maintain Catholic Schools without State aid. If extinguished by Socialism, anarchy, and political officers, there would be a natural retribution. Hef appealed to Nonconformists not to deserve the hateful name of persecutors. I?IRST AID TO INJURED. The Board of Trade has decided that certificates of knowledge of first aid to the injured shall be prerequisites in the examination for • masters' and mates' certificates from 1908. " OLD AGE PENSIONS. Mr Hodge, Labour M.P. for Gorton, suggests a graduated tax on all incomes over £IOOO. or, as an alternative taxation of land values, to provide old age pensions. Received 10.30 p.m., September lltli. SUCCESSFUL ARIEL NAVIGATION. LONDON, September 11. Colonel Templer's airship made a successful preliminary Farnborough Commerce. It circled in air under perfect control, but prematurely descended owing to an accident to the driving belt. Colonel Capper, superintendent of the baloon section of the Royal Engineers, expressed the greatest satisfaction with the manner in which tho baloon answered the rudder with and against the- wind. A second and thoroughly successful ascent was made later with three occupants. THE NEW DOMINION. New Zealand is gazetted a Dominion, dating from September 26th. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, September 10. The Pan-German Congress at- Wiesbaden urged the Government to hasten the competition of th? naval programme by laying down at least four battleships and one cruiser yearly ; also, by creating a fleet of submarines. INDIA'S POSTAL RATES. BOMBAY. September 10. India's inland letter rates from. October will be a halfpenny for letters rip to two fifths of an ounce, and a penny for over and up to four ounces. GOLD STANDARD IN CHINA. NEW YORK, September 11. A Wall street telegram from Washington announce., China's adoption of the gold iitandard. RUSSO-JAPANESE CONVENTION. ST. PETERSBURG, September 11. Ratifications of the Russo-Japanese convention have bjen exchanged.