LATE CABLES.
By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh
Received 10.50 p.m., April 18 London, April 18. King Alfonso is visit ng Prinots3 Ena at the Isle of Wight. Obituary. —Sir George O’Brien, late Governor of Fiji. The Dutch colonial prosß urge the Dutch Government to facilitate tho transport of tin from mines at Banka and Billiton, in tho Dutch East Indies, and foster the exploitation of the mines during the present boom, By tho capsiziDg of a boat on the river Shannon five men woro drowned. Received 11 20 p m., April 18. London, April 18.
Tho Independent Labor Conference has passed a resolution by a large majority in favor of woman suffrage. It condemned the Education Bill on tho ground that it did not provide for secular education. Tbo CoDferenco decided by 118 to 58 to maintain the paity’s organisation and policy. , Presiding at the annual conference ot the National Association of manual training of leaohors at Sheffield, Sir John Cockburn insisted that manual training must occupy a much more important place in the curriculum of schools if Britain hoped to maintain her great industries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1727, 19 April 1906, Page 2
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