GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PAPEES.

MARQUIS OP QUEENSBURY, The creditors of the Marquis of Queens, bury have held a meeting. They intend to apply for his arrest on the ground that ha is remaining in America and setting the Bankruptcy Court at defiance. AFRAID OF PTOMAINES. The German Government has been roused into activity by the effects of the recent deaths in a workhouse through the inmates eating impure food. Seventy-three of the iiimates in one workhouse died after eatinjr unwholesome fish, and a public scare has been caused. The fish markets in Berlin have- almost gone out of business, since nobody will dare to eat fish. It B feared by the proprietors of breweries and of other food manufactories, as well as by the dealers in all perishable goods, that th d scare may embrace them. They have ac cordingly spurred the Government into taking action to restore public confidence. THE MARRIAGE SERVICE. : : As a result of the recent wedding in London, at which the brido, who was a suffragette, stoutly refused to promise to obey her husband, there is some prospect of tho word being struck out of the marriage sen-ice of the Church of England. The matter was discussed in the Lower House of Convocation at Canterbury, and a resolution was passed in favour of revising tho marriage service in this respect. . It was also agreed to revise tho collect used in the marriage service asking for children for those who are being married. A committee which has considered the matter pro. poses to substitute the following words:— "Bestow, wo beseech Thee, upon these Wo persons the heritage and gut of children," AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCE. Tho Weiner Morgen-Zeiiuiig of Vienna, takes the Crown Prince* Archuuke Francis Ferdinand, to task for his pro-English ten-", dencies. The Archduko is spending the : winter at Celerina, a village on the Upper - Engadme, in Switzerland. It is alleged = against him that he speaks English confirmally, thus disregarding tho eilorts of ■ patriotic Germans to Germanise the i language. The paper says: " The Prince's • habit of ignoring German society in preference for the company of English people is; nothing less than insulting. He avoids Germans purposely, even aristocrats, who' airo the fathers of his friendo. It is incom- ! prehensible that not one of his suite "has sufficient taste and tact to tell him of th» pain caused by his conduct." NEARLY CRUCIFIED. From Lodz, in Poland, comes the story of how a bishop narrowly escaped beingcrucified. He was seized by 30 irate': women, members of a fanatical'sect known as tho Mariawittens, who declared that obey would put him to death as atonement tor his alleged sins. The bishop was securely bound hand and foot to a cross, and was then left to his fate. 'In the mean- '] time the authorities got to hear of what! was going on, and a detachment of police arrived just in the nick of time to save the hapless prelate's life.