General News.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 3

General News.

The British mission to Cabal, which is headed by Mr Louis f W. Dane, Secretary of Foreign Affairs to the Indian "Goveruiuent, .everywhere received a cordial welcome. The mission has arrived in Cabul. Easy to Take, Pleasant in Effect.— When troubled with constipation try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver They are easy to take and produee^ no griping, or other unpleasant effect. Sold by W. Walker, Milton. « $ Mr I>oyeih, Paris, claims to have i discovered a cancer bacillus serum cure. ! Five experts, including Aft. Metchinkoff, professor in the Pasteur Institute^ confirm the discovery. It is considered that the treatment alleviates suffering, .iod while it does uot avoid operations facilitates them. Great importance is attached in Mcs-; cow to the municipality's unanimous resolution urging the absolute necessity for reforms. These are (1) Legal protection of the citizen against official ; (2) repeal of exceptional laws ; (3) freedom of conscience, of creed, the Press, and of public meetings to be guaranteed; (4) the definite embodiment of these reforms in the Constitution, with the aid of freely-ielected popular representatives ; (5) the establishment of public control over the departments of the Government. If you have a liver and know it, if you are a sufferer from constipation, if you have indigestion, you should certainly try the effect of Dr Crossland's Noxol ; it is a wonderful medicine. 2s at chemists and stores. The Temps says that M. Mirski has been given a free hand for a while 6wj ing to the tears of the Czaritza and the ■ Dowager Empress that the infant heir may be assassinated unless the people are pacified by some immediate system of reform. Mr Arnold-Forster, Secretary of War, in 1 the course of a letter to the Times dealing with General Sir lan Hamilton's letter from the Far JEist on the condition of the British Army* states that both in men and material the British army reaches the extremes of quality in good and bad, and that General Sir lan Hamilton had often led the very best in the army. The Times has a long article on the Treasury's refusal to find money for new quick-firers except for India, because India pays for them. It asserts that the new War Office officials discussed the selection of guns for nine months before finally reverting to Hie decision arrived at by Major-general Marshall's Commission of Inquiry. It is hoped in India that twenty-one batteries will be ready in 1905. It would be possible, adds the article, to do this if the work were begun in earnest in April, and to re-arm the Motherland and the colonies by 1907. Meanwhile" we are not secure.