BRITISH NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1919, Page 5

BRITISH NEWS.

SINN FEINERS AND POLICE. £y Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlsht. London, Npv. 14. Sinn Feiners twice attacked the police barracks at Cooraclare. After tbe police bad abandoned the barracks a hostile crowd bombed and set fire to the building, which was gutted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable lAmu. INDUSTRIAL COURTS. London, Nov. 14. delegates representing 2,000,090 trade Unionists met in London and decided to approve of the Industrial Courts Bill.— jft]ia.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AGRICULTURAL. EXPERTS. London, Nov. 12. Lord Milner has appointed a committee to consider whether the staff of the colonial service of the Agricultural Department is adequate and, if necessary, to recommend increases in the staff, also Whether the lates of salary are ade-. quate. •The committee is to make recommendations to improve the arrangements for recruiting staffs for the colonies.— (tauter. BRITISH AGRICULTURE. London, Nov. IZ. 'A preliminary return issued by the Board of Agriculture shows that the Wheat crop decreased 2% million quarters compared with last year, though it Ss half a million quarters above the average of the'last ten years. Barley is 800,000 quarters below 1918, and 300,009 quarters below the average; oats are thjee million quarters below 1918, but the highest since 1907; the hay crop is by five million tons the lightest since ENGINE OF THE FUTURE. London, Nov. 12. ; a locomotive of the internal combustion type, burning heavy, oil fuel, has been constructed and successfully tested, drawing a passenger train at 60 miles per hour. ' *