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Temuka Leader, Issue 4017, 28 February 1903, Page 1

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Glasgow University has conferred the degree of .Doctor of Divinity on the Dev, Frederick Langliam, Methodist missionary at Fiji. Feb. 25. Lieutenant - General Sir Uharies Mansfield Clarke has been appointed Governor of Malta. Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr Alexander IViuirhead have invented a new system of ethergrams, exceeding Marconi’s in accuracy. An explosion of gun cotton wrecked a house at Ramsgate occupied by Henson, a bricklayer. He and his wife were subsequently found with their throats cut, and they are in a critical condition. Their son was blown to pieces. The wife had summoned her husband for separation. The husband is suspected aa the author of the tragedy. Feb. 26. The sum of £230,000, which ' has been subscribed for the Queen ’Victoria Memorial, is three times as much as is required to execute the original design. In addressing the Liberation Society, Dr Clifford said that their forefathers went to prison in preference to paying a rate to repair church fabrics, and that he would go to prison before he would pay the church educationrate. The Agent-General for Western Australia in a letter to the Morning Post justifies the State construction of public works. He showed that the Australian Governments were practically a trading corporation,and he ridiculed the allegations of wanton extravagance and repudiation. BERLIN, Feb. 24. Princess Luise’s brother Leopold is going to America, hoping to secure an officer’s commission in the United States navy. CAIRO, Feb. 24. Princess Nehmet, the Khedive’s married sister, objecting to harems, eloped with an Austrian Count. She intends to become a Christian and to marry the Count. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Mr Hay approved of Mr Bowen’s suggestion that the Czar should nominate three arbitrators to decide claims for preferential treatment in regard to Venezuela; NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Russia has asked America to cooperate with the other Powers in stopping the illegal importation of arms into China. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 26. Russia has warned Bulgaria and Servia that not a drop of Russian blood will be shed in their behalf if they strive to change the Balkans by revolutionary methods. BOMBAY, Feb. 26. The Bombay Port Trust recommends the construction of a dock covering 50 acres, at a cost of £3,000,000.

AUS I'RALIAN UAB L ES, ■ SYDNEY, Feb. 25. The Rev. Rainslord Bavin has been elected president of the Methodist Conference. The commander of the German gunboat Moewe, who recently arrived from Germany to take command oi the vessel, addressing the German residents at Albury, said that the Kaiser in his heart desired to live at peace with all nations. It did not follow that because Germany was intent on creating a big fleet, she desired to put down other fleets. International circumstances obliged the Kaiser to move in that direction, as other Powers were extending their fleets. The speaker deplored the attitude of the Press, especially that of Australia, which got hold of and commented upon untruthful cable messages, and engendered ill-feeling and mischief between .the two countries. . ' . . Another American shipment of 2700 tons of wheat has arrived. The Burwood leper has left the district, and the Board of Health are reticent as to his \v hereabouts, The aboriginal found guilty of the Ramsay bush murder has been sentenced to death. Sir J. See has abandoned his visit to New Zealand, owing to heavy work entailed by the drought. Hitherto the Premier had stated that the reports about the drought were exaggerated, hurt he told a deputation to-day that it was a most disastrous one, a calamity worse than the Boer war, and it was now the duty of evcr’yi man to stand shoulder to shoulder and help the Government out of tfie drought difficulty; and sec if immediate relief could not be afforded thase needing it. MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The Rev. Bickford has been elected president of the Methodist Conference. A man named Ball, found guilty of cattle stealing, was called up for sentence at Bendigo. In reply to the usual question, Be said that rather than go to Pentridge he would cut his throat, and he drew a knife and slashed his throat several times. Constables secured him before he had done himself serious injury, and he was subsequently sentenced to five years. Sensational charges are being investigated against the firm of Robt. Reid & Go., warehousemen here and at Brisbane, of supplying false Customs invoices.

Sir J. G. Ward attended the Assembly, aqd on the motion of the Premier was admitted to a seat on

the door of the House, members cheering him as he took; his seat.

'Further medical examination reveals the fact that the suspected case is not one of plague.

Feb. 26. J. McNab, a well-known sheepowner and judge of sheep for the Agriciiilturai Society of the Norwell district, was found guilty of conspiring with two employees to defraud the society of prizes for sheep at bhe show, lie entered sheep in the of the employees, and then as judge awarded them prizes. McNab was fined £SOO.

When the amendments m.ade by the Legislative Council in ■ the Reform Bill came before the House, the Premier immediately declared war against the Council. A few minor amendments were accepted, but the remainder were disagreed with, and the Bill was returned to the Cou/ncil.

An informal discussion took place between Sir J. G. Ward, Mr Roberts chairman, and Mr Mewh.ae, exrchairman, of the Stock Exchange, in regard to giving increased facilities for financial people here to tender for New Zealand loans.

At a meeting, of the Stock Exchange, the extent to which Victorian money is being. invested in New Zealand four per cents was referred to, and the opinion was expressed that such a practice should he discouraged owing to the desirability of retaining so much money in the community for their own security. Tlhe chairman explained that the Stock Exchange would not take any action to stop the New Zealand Government coming to Victoria for money. His interview with Sir J. G. Ward was intended to secure to members of the iExchange the same * consideration from the New Zealand Government aa is allowed them by the Victorian and Queensland Governments. At present no brokerage is allowed members of the Exchange for New Zealand loan business. Sir J. G. Ward bad promised to use his influence ■with Mr Seddon to secure the payment ,of brokerage. There is a strong Reeling among the members that encouraging all States to come to Victoria will nave the effect cf making Melbourne the financial centre of the Uommon wealth.

ADELAIDE, Feb. 26

Mr Ord Hume, in a speech, said the bands both of Australia and New Zealand were far in advance of what he anticipated: There were three bands in Australia worthy to take a foremost place amongst the leading nlace in Britain., New Zealand bands were even slightly better. He recommerided regular contests between Australia and New Zealand to improve band music. FREMANTLE, Febj 25. A case of plague is_ reported. Heavy rains fell yesterday, seven inches being recorded in 24 hours.

BIBLE BURNING IN FIJI

SYDNEY, Feb. 25

Dr Bowen, secretary lor xoreign missions, in a speech, stated that both Cardinal Moran and his priests should be devoutly thankful that DrotestanUmissions were far from a tailure in Fiji, for, if their precepts nad not been followed by the great mass of Fijians, the Bible-burners, ■who had outraged the most sacred feelings of 90 per cent of the converts, would long ago have felt the weight of a Fijian club. If there had not been an outbreak over the present trouble, the Government of Fiji must thank the missionaries who taught the people to be loyal and obedient subjects. Feb. 26.

The General Secretary of Missions has cabled from Fiji a confirmation of the Bible burning. The Rev. Mr Nqlan, of the mission stall, says that it evidently occurred after Mr Cleary left Fiji. With reference to the alleged neglect by Methodist Ministers, he says that no such complaint was ever heard of. The change was solely in the chief, who had a grievance againsta Government official. In some unfortunate way native clergyv men became implicated in the aSair, and the chief in anger first approached the Seventh Day Adventists, .but they refused to encourage the spirit manifested by the chief, who was advised to apply to the Catholics. The matter is being discussed. The secretary to the Methodist Mission who cabled to an independent source at Suva has received the following reply : - “ Father Rougler admits burning a case filled with useless Namosi Wesleyan testaments and hymn books.” The message was read at a confeeence of missionary authori ties who are seething with indignation The president moved—" That the conference expresses its intense indignation at the burning of New Testaments and hymn bootrs by the instructions of a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of Fiji ; regards it as a flagrant insult, not only to the Methodist people of Fiji, who number fullv 90 per cent of the population, but to our common .Protestant ism ; and expresses sincere sympathy with the Fijian Church in their present difficulties.” An amendment was moved to delay action until full official information has been received. The motion was carried unanimously. MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The retiring president of the Methodist Conference, the. Rev. Fitchett, referring to the Bible-burning, sad “I am tempted to say a wbrd. on a matter which has thrilled us all with anger, the spectacle of burning Bibles in Fiji. There is only one Church that would burn Bibles, and that is the Church that burned the men who gave the world the English Bible. It is the boast of that Church that it never changes through centuries, and the smoke of the Bibles in Fiji bears witness to the truth of that claim.” AUCKLAND, Feb. 26.

Mr J. Cleary, a prominent merchant of Suva, in an interview, stated that he left Suva three weeks ago Heconversed with the Namosi chief, the head of a thousand natives, who complained that the people were neglected by the Wesleyan minister, whose neglect they resented. The outcome was an invitation to Father Rangieo to assume the pastorshin. He accepted, and the whole tribe embraced the Catholic faith. No Wesleyan Bibles had, been burned at the time Mr Oearv left, and he believes the story to be a fabrication.