MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 173, 24 July 1903, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

MB FBHBS ASSOCIATION London, July 22. A conference of cotton employers •&d Lancashire textile operatives resolved to oppose the taxation of raw materials. The Times soya that in official quarters it is anticipated that a dissolution of Parliament will take place early next session, and the general elections will be held in Starch.

London Truth and other newspapers eulogise Bishop Mcorehouse for resigning when he found his strength unequal to the work, and also for refusing a pension. It is reported that the Government have arranged to pay tbe Ounard Company over a million sterling to build two steamer, *he largest afloat, for use with the reao of tbe fleet as armed crnisirs, and also for on improved postal servio3 across the Atlantic.

Lord C'urxon has been offered two years' additional tenure as Viceroy of India.

The Duke of Marlborough has been appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

July 23. The London County Council has agreed to contribute £20,000 a year for the maintenance of the proposed technical school Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, President of the French Parliamentary Conciliation and Arbitration group, and seventy members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies have arrived in England for the purpoie of conferring with the Commercial Committee of the House of Commons on the question of international arbitrpton, J Received 21,12 a.m.

London, July 23. In the House tf Commons, the London Education Bill was read a third time by 278 to 118.