GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 278, 23 March 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

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London, March 22. The Federated Employers of Engineers are resisting the demand made by the unions for the withdrawal of workmen who have not been properly trained, the result being the locking out of one-fourth of the engineers employed on the north-east coast, Barrow, Clyde, and Belfast. In the House of Commons Sir John Gorst said defective rural education retarded England's progress. He recommended that the age up to which children are compelled to remain at school should be raised. The officers of the colonial military contingents participating in the Queen's celebrations will be quartered at South Belgrave, and the men at Chelsea Barracks. Berlin, March 22. Ilerr Bachern, speaking oh behalf of the clerical party in the Reichstag, said it was the chief duty of the Chamber to grapple with domestic and social questions. The Heet was adequate for the preservation of peace, and the attempt to erect a Germany hegemony in Europe w*ild not be justified. The centenary of the birth of William the Great is being celebrated throughout Germany with great enthusiasm. Nkw York, March 22. The manufacturers in Mew England state that they an.- protesting against the duties levied on raw imported wools under the M'Kinley tariff. The river llooded the district 10 miles wide in the vicinity of Memphis, doing great damage to property. Fifty persons were drowned.