ADDITIONAL CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 6

ADDITIONAL CABLES

ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY AND COMMERCE.

[lndependent Service to Australian Press.] NO COOK STORIES WANTED. I'cforc the Japanese Antarctic expedition left, Count Okiim.i, the well-known statesman, gave, the leader of the expedition a few parting words of advice. One tiling lie specially counselled him not to do was to return with any bombastic claim of having discovered the Pole unless he had scientific proofs to back up his assertion. THE PIGTAIL GOES. Two thousand Chinese merchants held a meeting at Hongkong at which it was resolved to take, advantage of the Imperial Kdict that allows them to dispense with their queues. A motion in favor of Chinese! garb being discarded for European dress was defeated by an overwhelming majority.

A Papal decree, to be issued next week, will, it is said, piomulgato a rule under which the clergy will be debarred not only from engaging actively in commercial enterprises, but also I'roni lending their names to influence even charitable schemes. KAISERS -JUBILEE PRESENTATION. To celebrate Hie jubilee of the Kaiser's reign, a movement is afoot to present him with a new. Imperial yacht to compete with the Czar of Russia's Standard and King George's Victoria and Albert. National subscriptions tire to be called for, and the people invited to contribute their bumble marks. CRIPPENS LOVE FOP LENEVE. Cri]-pen's la«t letter, a fac-simile of which has be"ii published, is filled with protestations of his innocence and of his love for Len-jve. Referring to the latter he wrote : '' 1 hope the world will have pity for a woman who. however weak she may have seem'd in their eyes, has been loyal through misery and tragedy, anJ whose, love was strong and self-sacrificing." COUNTESS TOLSTOY ILL. Countess Tolstoy has been so overwrought through the death of her husband that she is now seriously ill. suffering from fever. She is reported to lie in low condition. TUGELA RIVER FIGHT CLAIM. One of the Zulu chiefs. Maliga of Nkandhlu. is seeking lo obtain, through tho Durban courts, a reward of £4O sterling and eighty head of cattle. He claims the reward for services rendered to General Sir Red vers Duller during the Boer War, and asserts that through his instrumentality the final assault at the Tugela River proved successful after *vo unsuccessful attempts had been made lo beat the Doers out of their position. The claimant also says that he originated the plan of operations.