The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-08-13 00:00:00

THE ARREST OF MSS CASS.

Mr. Matthews informed Mr. A, herley-Jones that the
law officers of the Crown had advised that the Director
of Patilie•Prosecutions should institute a prosecution
!Talc stPolice constable Endacott for perjury in relation
to the arrest of Miss Cass, but the advisers of Miss
Cass having taken out a summonS against the constable,
he should instruct the Director of Public Prosecutions
to arrange with her solicitors either to take up the
prosecution or, at their option, to leave it in their
hands. The Lord Chancellor expressed disapproval of
the mode in which the inquiry before Mr. Newton was
conducted, but his communication could not properly
he made public until the proceedings now pending were
brought to a close.
THE NEW HEERIDES AND THE SUEZ CANAL. .

Sir J Fetgues.on atated, in answer tu Mr. Bryce, that
while her Majesty's Government would not object to
discuss the subjects cf the New Hebrides and the Suez
Oartal pan i pai.su, as desired by the French Govern-
ment, they in no tray consented that the withdrawal of
French t roops from the New Hebrides should 'be post.
vii,ed until an agre, ment had been arrived at tor the
neutralisation of the Suez Canal. They were pressing

urn, he French Government that the negOtiationo
should be brought to a clo.e with respecc to this sub-
ject, on which the t Ivo Governments were perfectly
agreed in princiolia. It was the tact that settlers from
France continued to arrive in the New Hebrides.
SUPPLY.

- The H House having gone into Committee of Supply,
varal hours we,o oocupied in discussing the Scotch
votes in (Manses 2 and 3 of the Oivit Service Estimates.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Progress having been reported at eleven o'clock, Sir
W Hart Dyke moved the second reading of the
Technical iestruction Bill, the primary object of which,
he ex plained, was to so enlarge the powers of the Science
and Art Department as to enable them to supply
locsli ice whicti desired it with technical instruction
ofa primary character for scholars who ,had passed
the sixth standaid. or an equivalent examination.
A. vast amount of this special form of training
could be afforded immediately in existing soh -ol
buildings. The expenditure had been for years past
fairly tested in existing schools; and from their
exoerience it was possible to say definitely that
he expi-nditure which would be placed upon the rates
w. Ind be a Ininiamal amount. With regard to the
clause giving an appeal to the ratepayers before the
bill was adopted, he proposed to meet the case of the
metropolis by dispensing with the veto of the rate-
paNrrp, and a proviso would also be 'inserted that a
I-cal authority should not incur any expenditure in
the er,ction or enlergement of school buildings for
the porn •rgas of ttie Act until 'after the next electi in
of the local atrhority. A further safeguard would be
that tatepmets who desired a poll mumt provide
security for the cost of its being taken. With regard
to the curriculum, that would be left to the decision
of the localities but if it was within the limits of the
Science and Art Department it would entitle the
school to receive grants.
Mr. S. Leighton complained that the Government
peolee% ar
d predicted °awn charge
that uponthe
aire werel7i,
oevaevrobuurridnledt o ;oat
p
the bill were passed the voluntary schools would be
placed at such great disadvantage that in five years
they, would
,cease to mist, the result whiehNould be
to place noon the rates an initial olvergeof £80,001,000