MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9303, 9 March 1907, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, March 8. The Dowager Empress of Russia received a popular ovation on her arrival in England. Reuter reports that Mr Chamberlain takes a short dnve daily, and his health is fcatisfactory. MELBOURNE, March 8. News has been received that Voliva, oveTseer of Zioai City, and. for some years leader of Zionists in Australia, has decided to abandon Zion City and found a colony in California on Sociafot lines. Many Zionist 5 , including numbers of Australians who went' to Zion City, will throw in their lot with Voliva. BERLIN, March 8. In" the Reichstag the Minister for Foreign Affairs declared that HeTren Wolff and Tschudi -went to Morocco in ths capacity of engineers, aiot as reorganisers of the Moorish army as alleged from some French sources. LONDON, Mairch 8. In the House of Commons, Mr J. Murray MacDcnald sought to reduce the strength of th? Navy by 8000 men, on ' the grounds that the two next strongest European Powers maintain a force not exceeding 94,000, and the alliance ought to imply a reduction. The amendment was withdrawn and r.he Navy Estimates agreed to. ' ?

It is expected that the local SundaySchools will close for two Sundays on account of th'j prevaiJijiig epidemic of measles.