MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11813, 18 December 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Stockholm, December 15. King Oscar of Sweden is suffering from a heart affection, and his condition is regarded as critical. Washington, December 15. President Koosevelt has withdrawn hio initvuotiono to tho iPublio Printer to introduce his simplified spelling scheme. London, December 16. John Grant Moore, described as belonging to an Australian confidence gang, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on a charge of stealing. King Haakon and Queen Maud, of Norway, have arrived at Potsdam, on a visit to the Kaiser. Sheep are unchanged. In lambs the market is practically bare. Beef forequarters, 3*4 d, hindquarers,33|d. River Plate sheep are unchanged ; beef, forequarters, 3d : hindquarters, King Menelik is making a tentative proposal for the establishment of a railway from Khartoum to the interior of Abyssinia with a view to obtaining a short cut to the Mediterranean. English Eoman Catholics protest that the Irish Nationalists, excepting Mr Tim Healy, are supporting the action of the Government in refusing to consider the House of Lords' amendments to the Education Bill. They attribute the position to the bargain made in connection with Irish legislation. ;[Five Manchester female suffragists have been arrested in the precints of the House of Commons for persisting in an attempted demonstration. A somewhat disorderly crowd of working men and women from Battersea and the East End were persuaded to disperse. Female suffragists, including Mrs Ausgustas McDougall, of New South Wales, have gone to gaol for a fortnight, refusing to pay a fine of £1. | s The Rev. Dr Clifford and a number of other Non-onformist ministers have been fined for the eleventh time at Paddington for passive resistance to the education rate. I: The London and Middlesex Hospital authorities have placed twenty cancer cases under the Trypsin treatment owing to a New York doctor claiming that he had made two cures with this agent. "^sfg Berlin, December 16. S JtPrinceyon Bulow, German Chancellor, said in the Reichstag that the Government were determined to abandon the method of repeated concessions to the Centre Party and be rid of their votes.