The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-05-25 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  The Irish Council Bill was on Tuesday diecussed by the Nationalist Convention in Dublin. Mr. John Redmond. who presided, moved the rejection of the bill, saying that, as it was utterly inadequate and unworkable, its failure would be used to prove the incapacity of Irishmen for self-government. The Liberal Government should drop Roseberyite ideas, and resume the Uladstonisu standard. Delegates from America supported the rejection of the bill. Mr. T. P. O'Connor said the measure would do more harm than good. and could not be touched by true Nationalists, as it was founded on undemocratic lines. The motion to reject the bill was carried amid enthusiasm.  • • • •  Dr. Robert Spence Wateon, presiding at the annual meeting of the Peace Society, in the City Temple on Tuesday night, condemned Mr. Haldane's Army Bill and Lord Roberts's military training campaign. The greatest danger to peace was the leprous section of the Press of England and Germany, which 6 hameles:,sly engineered Feares.  The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has issued an intimation to the effect that the funeral of the Rev. Dr. John Watson will take place on Monday next. Service will be held at Sefton Park Presbyterian Church at two o'clock. Admission to the church wil' be by ticket, which will be issued, as far as accommodation will allow, on application to Mr. John Lea, Linwood. Moseleyhill. The interment will take place at Smithciown-road Cemetery at three o'clock. ' The postponement of the funeral beyond the date originally fixed is due to the fact that the youngest son, Mr. Fred Watson, who went to America to comfort his mother when ihe melancholy news was cabled over, cannot reach Liverpool again before this week-end.  • • • •  The Queen of Spain and the Prince of the Asturias continue in perfect health. The Queen still nurses her son, as she had always expressed her desire and intention to do. A wet nurse has been brought down from the Province of Santander, and reached Madrid Palace on Tuesday.  An inquest wee held at Belfast on Tuesday on the body of a nineteen-year-old girl named Anne Hughes. who committed suicide by setting herself on fire. She had left home to seek refuge at the workhouse, whence she was removed to the home of an aunt. During the night she saturated her hair with paraffin, which flowed over her clothing, and then appliid a match. In ter agony she screamed for her uncle, who, with assistance, was eventually able to extinguish the flames. The half-cremated girl was conveyed to hasp).tal, where she died almost immediately.  a • • •  A mass meeting took place on Tuesday to protest against the atrocities which are daily perpetrated by Greek and Servien bands on the Bulgarian population of Macedonia. The main burden of the speeches was that the reforms had not brought about any amelioration in the condition of the Bulgarians in Macedonia, but that, on the contrary, a systematic war of extermination had been waged against them during the last three years. A resolution, which was carried unanimously, protested against the perfidy of the Servians and Greeks, and urgently appealed to the Great Powers who were morally responsible for the deplorable state of Macedonia.