The Telegram. — 1900-10-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SOMERSET TEACHERS' FEDERATION.  A public meeting in connection with the Some. set Teachers Federation was held in tbe Municipal Hall, Taunton, on Saturday afternoon, to consider the question of "Reasonable security of tenure for teachers in public elementary schools." Colonel Welby, M.P. for the borough, presided over a good attendance from all parts of the county.— Mr. T. H. June., of London, chairman of the Tenure Committee of the National Union hf Teacher., then gave an address. The Rev, Thomas Wilkinson, of Taunton, proposed "Thal as the widespread prevalence of insecurity of teachers' tenure of office seriously militates against the efficiency of the schools and the educe, tional int-irests of the children, and the evil having been accentuated by the este.. lishment of a compulsory superannuation scheme for teachers to primary schools, this meet. big regards with great satisfsction the promise of the Government to deal with the question of the I teachers' tenor, of office at an early date."—Mr. T. Butland, of Kingsteington, Devon, a meinhrr of the Executive to the N.U.'f., reminded the motion.—A discussion followed, and the remintion VIIS carried unanimously.—Mr. Coward, of Bristol, a ineinber of the Executive to the N.U.T., prophsed "That the above resolution be sent to Lord Sal'sb 3.1 the . Balfour,Duke oSt r Johnt Devonshire. .o o nu r,Lso. Sir H. ilt. Gregory,o s ee a b py : 'A bell.Baunerinan, and the M.P.'s for Somerset" T 8 seconded b IN. n Castle Cary, and agreed to,  Baron de Renzi, Italian Anobasiador to Great Britain, died on Sunday morning. The Viceroy of India telegraphs that the numb'? of persons in receipt of relief has fallen to 1,422,000.  A Armtek wa% burnt in Lowestoft Harbour on Monday, and a wa tAinan, named &ant Idak' who was sleeping in the cabin, was suffocated.  Alfred Hiedle, labourer, aged about 50, of Asploy Guise, near Woburn, Beds, has died in Bedford Gaol. He had been convicted over 50 times.  The largest farce of all arms since the fatal field day three months ago was placed on the &It at Aldershot, on Monday,ti carry out mameuvrev a large scale. A verdict of "Wilful murder against porneirrvon unknown " was returned on Monday at the hmetat held at Yarmouth on the body of a woman who was found strangled on the beach five weeks :Ir.  TW3 negroes, in e..c.iping from the prison attached to the 7th Districc Police-court at New York, killed a warder and fatally injured another man who went to his assistance. One of the negroes was killed, but the other got away. Eight perdons have been killed and 21 injured by the wreck of a passenger train on the Northern Pacific Railway, eight miles east of Livintotos. Montana, at midnight on Sunday. It is supposed that the accident WM due to a broken rail.  The Khost Colliery, Baluchistan, which caught fire last year, involving the loss of 47 lives, is near cool enough to explore. writes a Simla correspond. ent. The passages which were sealed up to pull out the fire are being °railed, and a number of bodies have been recovered. Count von Thavonat, an Austrian nohlewae, while dining at a fs.shionable restaurant inVienna, objected to the flavour a a dish served to low, and fired three pistol shots at the landlord, all of which missed. The irascible nobleman was handed over to the military authorities.  A child named Marion Tregilgas, the daughter of Nels,m (Lancashire) parents, was lefc in bed. and the mother, on hurrying upstairs, found the child lying un the fbor dead, having in her struggles drawn the neck cord of her nightgowns° tigntly round the noels an fro ccrase  Printed and Published ior the Proprietors by THOMAS GRANVILLE Jacos, at the Chief Offices, Mildie Street, Yeovil ; also published at the following Branch Offices :—London, 144, Fleet Street. Sao' bury, 35, Pisherton Street Weymouth, 10, Thomas Street ; Portland. 3, High Street ; Sherborn, South Stree'. All communications should lid addressed to Ciiief Offices as above. Letters for ' the Literary Department should be addressed to the Eritron, and all Eusiness Communications Wt bicinnica, and not to any mann 1.17