BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15163, 6 October 1913, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA,

A HOPEFUL MOVEMENT. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cabtes Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. DELHI, Oct. 3. A mass movement among the degraded castes in India towarls Christianity is attracting attention. Two and a half millions of oonver+s are expected. . PROGRESS OF MEDICINE. NEW YORK, Cct. '3. The Rockefeller Institute claims to have succeeded in artificially cultivating the germ of infantile paralysis. WHITE SUPREMACY FADING. IN EASTERN LANDS. Received 7.40 p.m., Oot. 4th. LONDON, Oct. 3. At the Church. Congress, M • Morel, editor of "The Mail," and secretary to the Congo Reform Association, declared that the old unquestionel ascendancy of the white races was disappointing, and the day was rapidly approaching when the' basis of white rule throughout the greater part of Asia must rest as much upon consent as upon, force. MISS BRADDON STILL WRITING. Received 7.40 p.m., Oct. 4th. LONDON, Oct. 3. Miss Braddon, at the age of seventyfive, is engaged in writing her seventyfifth novel. MORE TRADE, LESS CRIME. The Prisons Report shows a decrease of 9726 in Great Britain's prison population. This is attributed to the trade boom. RIP VAN WINKLE. / ■ COMPLETELY BEWILDERED. ROME, Oct. 3. The King pardoned a bootmaker who had served fifty-four years for stabbing a mate. After a drive round the city in a motor car,- and witnessing airships' flights the ex-prisoner become bewildered and desired to return to gaol. LORD KITCHENER IN DANGER. FROM MUSSULMAN'S PLOT., Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. Received 5.5 p ? m., Oct. 6th. ROME, Oct. 4. The newspaper "Secolo" states that the police frustrated a Mussulmans* plot to assassinate Lord Kitchener at Venice, when he was en route to Egypt last week. BIG WIRELESS EXPERIMENT. LONDON, Oct. 4. The "Daily Chronicle" states that the Marconi Company erects long distance stations at Sheffield an-I Buenos Ayres. equipped with eighteen masts >ix hundred feet long, thereby testing the _ Marconi-Goldschmidt machines. INDIANS IN AFRIC4. JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 4. The authorities decline to arrest Indian women passive resistors. The .Magistrate only nominally penalised unlicensed hawkers and declared that he was not going to make them nuu> tyre. '