GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 28 August 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WORKERS, By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, August 25. / Two hundred manual workers are' at Oxford University, and are meeting daily at Balliol College to consider social and economic problems, and are attending professors' lectures, The college authorities permit forty of the poorest to live at the college. A SLANDER ACTION. Capetown, August 25. The hearing of a, slander action at Bloemfontein against Mr. Hcrtzog, Minister of Education, brought by Mr. Eraser, a dismissed school inspector, i* arousing great interest. The case arose out of an election speech in 1910, in connection with Mr. Hertzog's Education Act. A thousand pounds damages are claimed. FATAL FLOODS. Berne, August 26. Serious floods' have occurred in the Valley of Massino. A torrent destroyed eight farmhouses, nine persons were killed and two are missing. Several villages were half destroyed and many cattlfi drowned. SCIENTIFIC ADYICE FOR FARMERS. London, August 26. The Development Commissioners have allocated £50,000 annually in aid of rural industries by mean 9 of agricultural research, including sholarships. They purpose increasing the number of experts qualified to afford scientific advice to farmers. RAILWAY STRIKE THREATENED. New York, August 25. Federation Shop employees on the Harriman lines, numbering, thousands, threaten to strike unless their grievances are remedied. Their chief demand is for an eight hours' day.

JAPANESE POLITICS. Tokio, August 25. The Marquis Katsura has resigned the Premiership and recommended the Marquis Saionji as his successor. A DISASTER DENIED. Berlin, August 25. Posen reports that the choir loft in Binief Church collapsed during a service and eighty-two persons were buried, of whom twenty-three were suffocated and' the remainder injured, some severely. Reuter, however, states that the report, i 9 unfounded. TRAWLERS FOR JAPAN. London, August 25. Japanese agents at Grimsby are purchasing twenty-five modern steam trawlers. OUTBURST OF FIRE-DAMP. London, August 25. An outburst of fire-damp occurred in borings at Calverton, Buckinghamshire. Analysis proves that it is coming from coal. OPIUM SMUGGLING.. Ottawa, August 25. 'Several arrests have been made at Winnipeg on charges of smuggling' opium across the United States frontier. Tt 19 said that one of the accused confessed. A number of Government employees are involved in a wholesale plan to smuggle the drug. The score* service of both countries has been working ! for months on the case.

CANADIAN POLITICS. Ottawa, August 25. Mr. Rutherford, ex-Premier of Alberta, has decided to withdraw his candidature against Mr. Oliver, Minister for the Interior. It is believed that the dissatisfied Liberals intend to nominate another candidate in view of Mr. Oliver's unpopularity. NEW RACE OP PEOPLE. Ottawa. August 25. Stefanssen, leader of the American scientific expedition, claims to have discovered in the Arctic regions a new race of people never beheld before by white men or Indians. RAILWAY DISASTER. New YoTk, August 25. Tfc is reported that a New York Central passenger train went over the side of a bridge. Many persons are stated to have teen killed. A relief train has been dispatched.