BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright). LONDON; August 22. Earl Granard has succeeded Earl Sexton as Master of the Horse. The Chairman of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce declares that m some cases the new Australian tariff is prohibitive. He intends to confer with other Chambers. i Reuter asserts that the Roman Congregational Council has issued a decree radically changing the conditions of Catholic marriages. In future they will be invalid everywhere unless celebrated^ m tho presence of a priest' and two witnesses, except m districts without a priest 'for a whole month, when Catholics will become validly married if they express their consent m the presence of two witnesses. The new law operates as from next Easter. M. F. Anstay, addressing the East Ham Labor League, declared that although the Australian labor movement was not perfect it was immensely ahead of the British, the latter lacking unity, without which nothing could bo accomplished. ! . NEW YORK, August 22. Mrs Eddy's son's suit against the Christian Science Trustees has been withdrawn owing to an agreement out of Court. PRETORIA, August 22. v Twelve hundred Transvaal Civil Servants, railway employees, and constables have been discharged for retrenchment. HALIFAX, August 22. Tliere is excitement m Newfoundland owing to the announcement that it is intended'to submit the fishery dispute to The Hague. Ministers refuse to say whether they concur.