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Mail News via Suez.

CHINESE CRUELTY. A man belonging to a trade union at Soochow recently broke the rules of the Society, whereupon his fellow workmen condemned him to be bitten to death. “ One hundred and twenty-three men had a bite at him before he expired.” WRECK OF A FISHING FLEET. A telegram from Dunkirk says that four fishing schooners of Dunkirk and Garvelines are fully believed to have gone down with all hands in the great storm last month off the coast of Iceland. As each of these boats carried 18 men, and 30 more are positively known to have perished, the total loss of life in this great disaster is brought up to 102. THE WESLEYANS* FINANCES.—ACCUMULATED DEBT CREATES ANXIETY. The Wesleyan body is at the present moment very greatly exercised about missionary finance. The accumulated debt of the Society is a source of great anxiety to the secretariat, and it is feared by many new schemes which are now before the Wesleyan Church, and which make great demands upon the resources of the people, the claims of the Missionary Society will be pushed into the background. The subject has (the London Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian is told), occupied a good deal of attention in several of the most important district meet inns which have just been held, and a commission of inquiry is being talked of. However, at the present moment searching investigation ie already being made by the committee into the financial condition of the Missionary Society, with a view to placing things on a more satisfactory basis. It is rumoured that one result of this enquiry will be the recommendation of a measure of retrenchment all round, and this rumour is’already creating some dismay among the friends of the Society. At the same time there is a deep conviction on the part of the minority that the whole difficulty has arisen in consequence of the decay of the local missonary organisations, and a resolute attempt is being made in some quarters to revive the old organisations and secure their efficient working as ths only satisfactory soi lutlon of the problem.

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 169, 14 July 1888, Page 3

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Mail News via Suez. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 169, 14 July 1888, Page 3

Mail News via Suez. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 169, 14 July 1888, Page 3

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