YESTERDAY'S CABLES.
His Holiness the Pope's protest to President Loubet's visit has aroused indignation in Paris, and several newspapers demand the recall of M. F. A. Zisord, French Ambassador to the Vatican.
The newspaper Le Matin ; states the German general staff purchased from spies all it needed regarding the defences of Toulon, Cherbourg, and Brest.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl Spencer, in the House of Lords, and the Hons A. J. Balfour and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, in the House of Zommons, in eloquent speeches, supported the Government's proposal to erect a national memorial to the late Lord Salisbury in the Abbey. Mr Eedmond protested, but the proposal was adopted without a. division.
The births during 1903 in London totalled 130,906, the lowest for a decade. The marriage rate has fallen from a maximum of 38 4-sth par thousand in 1898 to 17 2-sths. The death-rate was 15 7-10ths per 1000—the lowest on record.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7979, 20 May 1904, Page 4
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