BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5568, 18 May 1896, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ■ SLKCrmO TSLUQIIA I' H- COPYRIGHT.] [Per Press Association.] THE SCHOOLS BILL. LONDON, May 17. The Rev Price Hughes condemns the defection of Irish members on the Voluntary Schools Bill, which he styles a decisive object lesson, showin" the Irish Romanist Party to he incapable of justice to the Engliah dissenters. The Liberals, he adds, never proposed Home Rule ■without providing ample religious justice for Ulster PNEUMATIC-TIKE COMPANY. There were sixty thousand tenderers for the four millions of stock offered by the Pneumatic-Tyre Company, the total amount being nine '"the'late baron hiksch. Baron Hirech's estate has been proved at sixteen millions, in addition to five millona' worth of property devoted to the improvement of the condition of the Jews. The Baroness receives eight millions. The Baron's j death was caused by the operation of tracheotomy for supposed cancer. THE POPULATION OF FRANCE. PARIS, May 16. A society is being formed here for the purpose of insisting that legislative action shall be taken in regard to the declining population of France. A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE. The Czar has forwarded a message of condolence to President Faure in connection with the recent train accident in Algiers., whereby a number of soldiers wore killed or injured. He describes the men as " brave brothers in arms." FRANCE AND RUSSIA. President Faure will meet the Empress Dagmar, mother of the Czar, at Pagny, on the German frontier. INTERNATFONAL COINAGE. WASHINGTON, May 16. The House of Assembly has earned a recommendation in favour of inte'ri national gold aud silver coinage. A FLTJNG MACHINE. Mr Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute, has invented a machine fr»r flying half a mile. at a height of 100 ieeb. I A POLITICAL FIGHT. OTTAWA, May 17. The French Canadians in Montreal had their indignation aroused by a reference to Mr Laurier in the course ofaßpeechby Sir 0. Tupper, and in order to prevent him continuing got up a fight -with the Premier's supporters. REINFORCEMENTS FOR CUBA. . MADRID, May 17. Fifty thousand reinforcements will be sent to Cuba in the autumn. PROSECUTING SOCIALISTS. BERLIN, May 17. The German Government is enforcing the law against the Socialists, and forty-seven members of political societies have been put on their trial.