BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14457, 1 June 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

TilE CORONATION. TUADKS UNIONS. RKCOGNJSKI). Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, .May ;iO. King George has commanded tho Earl Marshal to invite two representatives of Trade Unionists to attend tho Coronation. RTFLE SHOOTING. Tho Second Fusiliers won tho Scliumnchor Challenge Cup with a score of 3604, the next highest being the Second Hampshires with 3428. Tho Second Australian Infantry finished eighteenth. Ono hundred and fiftyfivo teams competed. Received 30.40 p.m., May 31st. PUBLIC MORALS. A MANIFESTO. LONDON, May 31. The Dukes of Fife nnd Argyll, Lord Strathcona, several Bishops, Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, General Booth and others, have issued a « l{ public morals " manifesto, dealing with question of the birth-rate and pernicious literature, and urging the necessity of education in tho duties of parenthood. Tho manifesto declares that the tendencies of the ago make it imperative that the young should be taught high conceptions of marriage. UNION OF SCOTTISH CHURCHES. The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church sympathetically discussed a report of a joint committee upon union, ordered it to be printed, and commended it to the serious considera* tion of the people. The committee on union was reappointed. MOTOR BALLOONS—DO NOT PAY. BERLIN, May 30. A German aerial company which has been running two Deutchsland airships lost £14,000 on twelve months. working. 50,000 TON STEAMER, The Yilkan Yard, Stettin, is building the Hamburg-American liner Iraperator. She will be of 50,000 tons, and a sister ship to the Europa. THE SEAWARD BOUNDARY. OTTAWA, May 30. The American. fishing vessel Edric, captured within the three-mile limit of Vancouver, has been confiscated. An armed party from the cruiser Rainbow arrested the captain and crew in March last. CANADIAN NAVY. reports' of a threatened mutiny on the cruiser Rainbow, in consequence of bad food, are denied. The Toronto newspapers have published allegations to £lie ieffect that the whole of the Canadian naval service is dissatisfied with the conditions. MOROCCO. TANGIER, May 30. '& wireless station, is being. established a# Fes,