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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 243, 18 April 1896, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT AND NEW GUINEA. EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, AND AUSTRALIAN BANK. (Per Press Association). London, April 17. Mr Acland, M.P. for Rotberbauo, condemned the proposal to give County Councils the control of schools. The result would be to cripple the School Boards and to injure the cause of edu- I cation. He also complained the Bill did not provide for the management of voluntary schools. Bishop Moorehouse, speaking on the Voluntary Schools Bill, said it would be necessary to rate the voluntary and board schools on a similar basis. The Trust Agency of Australasia has declared a dividend of 20 per cent. The English, Scottish, and Australian Bank shows a profit of £2:37. A loan of .£IO,OOO enabled the directors to postpone a call. Bkrlin, April 17. The new system of rebates on freight on the German railways will enable Westphalic coal to bo landed in England at a sufficiently low rate to compete with English Coai. The German Government is negotiating with the New Guinea Company for a transfer of its rights to the Company, with a view to the colony being brought under direct Imperial control. Ottawa, April 16. Sir Mackenzie Bowell states that even if Great Britain favoured an Imperial Zollverein, the colonies would not approve of it without Imperial preference duties. Mr Chamberlain's reference to increased trade was, he says, a happy augury. St. Petersburg, April 16. The Russian Government lias asked Bulgaria to reinstate the officers who took refuge in Russian territory after King Alexander abdicated the Throne.