TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4868, 6 February 1894, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[Special to Pbess Association."] DAHOMEY. LONDON, Fjbb. 5. It is reported here that the French j Government has decided to deport ' King Behanzin of Dahomey to Tahiti. BARONETCIES. Mr Edwrrd Burne Jones, the wellknown artist, has been created a baronet. Mr George P. Watts, another eminent painter, was also , offered a baronetcy, but declined the honour. THE DECAY OF RELIGION, [n a pastoral letter Archbishop j Vaughan urges a widespread system 1 of social unions for young people as an antidote to the atheism and communism consequent on the decay of ' religion. , AN APPEAL, • The Daily News is appealing for funds to assist sufferers by the I Liberator Permanent Building Society failure. It states that six o£ the victims by the crash have become insane. OBITUARY. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. George Childs, the American philanthropist, is dead. ITALIAN FINANCE. ROME, Feb. 5. The Budget shows a deficit of five milUcb pounds. The Government proposes to monopoHse the production of alcohol end matches, and thus increase the revenue by three millions fper annum. PAPAL SUCCESSION. The Pope is creating six Italian cardinals, with a view to electing his successor. COUNT CAPRIVI. , BERLIN-, Fbb. 5. It is reported tfut Count Caprivi is resigning. EXECUTION OF VAILLANT. PARIS, Feb. 6. Tite Anarchist Vaillant has been Executed. He died crying Vive VAnarehie. The prison where the execution took place was surrounded by crowds o£ excited people. MURDERED INFANTS. MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. Dr Neill, coroner, writing to the preae, Bays in 90 per cent of five hundred infant corpaeß he has examiced, death was due to wilful suffocation, end he estimates that there are fo'urtetfß hundred women living in Melbourne tvholiave cheated the hangmatt.