BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 49

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 14. Lord Roberts proposes to address meetings in ail the large towns in order to arouee" the^ public to a sense" of its danger through the weakness of the army. A series of earthquake shocks, extending ,i, i over nine hours, is reported from Macao (China). There were slight shocks at Hongkong, and one at Chamonix (France) 1 cracked the walls of >a church. The congregation fled in a' panic, expecting the building to collapse. ' LONDON, August 15. The Morning Leader states that the registrar of Bridgewater was summoned to the Abode of Love at Spaxton, Somerset, to register Mr Smyth Piggott's baby. He saw in the chapel 40 worshippers. Mr Keid (Piggott's secretary), Mr Piggott, and the registrar were the only men present. A beautiful young woman lay on a couch, wherson was a babe dressed in •white. Mr Piggott admitted that he was the father of the child. The mother (Ruth Greece) described herself as a lady, but in her next reply she described herself as a nun. The child was then chris- j tened Glory. A splendid choral service was held, the mother of the child receiving homage. Glory is considered to be tho new Messiah. Mr Piggott's legal wife was present or in the vicinity "of the chapel. The woman Greece was deluded into believing herself to' be Mr Piggott's divinely appointed spiritual bride, and as such is received by the Agap'emonities. Cases of cerebral meningitis have occurred in the Kettering district. The local authorities are adopting stringent measures for the isolation of the patients. PARIS, August 14. A train at Biarritz frightened the horses attached to the carriage in which was seated Baron Paevelrammigen, the husband of Princess Frederick of Hanover. The Baron was thrown from his carriage and severely injured, his skull being fractured. MADRID, August 14. Anarchy prevails at Cteuna. Troops have been sent to quell the disturbance. Starving labourers throughout Andalusia are stealing and eating the sheep at nights. The authorities are powerless to prevent them. The latest addition to the foreign bird gallery at the Canterbury Mtfeeum is a -.^specimen of the Falkland Islands shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer) which was shot by Captain Greenstreet, of the Rimutaka, off Cape Horn, and was presented by him to the Museum. Young Chinamen, who hay© some smattering of English are opening what they call "Anglo-Chinese schools" in Shanghai and the neighbouring towns. One of these , schools frankly advertises its limitations, j and announced that " English is taught as far as the letter G." The tender of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand for the supply of 20,000 gallons of oastor oil for the New Zealand railways has been accepted, delivery to take place at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. The price is 2s s£d per gallon.