AROUND THE WORLD.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 6

AROUND THE WORLD.

Two directors of a savings bank were lynched at Liget, in Hungary, on November 9. The bank, which had not been long in existence, was obliged to close its doors owing to mismanagement, and the depositors, chiefly Roumanian peasants of the vicinity, decided at a creditors’ meeting to be revenged on the persons responsible. The managing director managed to escape, but the depositors caught Nikolaus Peteru and Josef Sznrdu, the two other members of the Board, as they fled through the streets, and beat them to death with cudgels.

Commenting on a court decision that the Marquis Townshend was not of sound enough mind to take care of his own affairs, Swift Mac Neill, writing from Dublin, drew the attention of the London Times to the extraordinary fact that the noble marquis might nevertheless go on attending the House of Lords, capable of taking care of the affair of the Empire, though not of his own. Mental imbecility is a disqualification for a seat in the House of Commons; but there would appear to be no legal bar to a writ of summons to an imbecile peer to attend the House of Lords.

One of the most notable trees in America is a massive old live oak, four to five feet in diameter, with a spread of more than seventy feet. The monarch of the Jamestown position is supposed to be nearly 1000 years old. It w r as a large tree when the first settlement of Jamestown was made 300 years ago, and was a favorite resting place of the Indians of Chief Powhattan’s powerful tribe. According to authentic reports Indian war talks were made under the shades of this old tree in the early days when the first whites settled in America and the Indians began the long, hopeless struggle for their homes and hunting grounds.

Mr Dooley says: “ People tell ye they don’t care what is said about t'hini in print. They don’t if it’s pleasant. If ye said a man was a greater pote than Shakespeare, a greater gin’ral than Napolyon, a gr-reater statesman thin Thomas Jefferson, he’d have a feeling that ye dene him scant justice only because if he didn’t ye'er readers wud indignantly stop th’ pa-aper. Ye niver read iv annybody writin’ in that his attintion has been called to a paragraph praisin' him an’ regrettin’ that stuff has been published about him that shud be kept f’r his tombstone. But if ye print a squib down in th’ right-hand corner iv th’ twelth page following pure advertisin’ matthcr to th’ gin'ral effect that his past life in Missoury is known to th’ iditor he’jl be around that mornin’ with a gun an’ a lawyer.”

An extraordinary dispute has arisen between the choir and the trustees of Stourton Wesleyan Chapel Leeds. For sometime the question of whether “ Amen ” should be sung at the end of every hymn, has agitated the congregation, and at a specially called meeting held recently it was decided by a majority that the latter course should not be followed. To this, however, the members of the choir objected, and in spite of directions from the trustees and leaders they persisted in singing “ Amen ” at the end of every hymn. When they were reproved for this from the pulpit, the choristers in a body left the chapel by a side door, re-entered by the front door, and took up seats in the body of the chapel, where as ordinary members of the congregation, they continued to sing “Amen” at every available opnortunity.

Echoes from the Melbourne Anglican Church Congress:—“ When you have men with their millions, and poor, honest folk down in the gutter, it is not Christain.”—"Bishop Mercer of Tasmania. “ The man who draws an income from a company is responsible for the methods of that company. 'He cannot transfer his responsibility to the manager or directors. He must share any guilt there may be.”—Canon Stephen, Principal of St John’s College, East St. Kilda, “ No man is a true member of the Church of God who wants to keep his light to himself, and does not want it to shine in the dark places of the earth.”—Bishop Riley, of Perth. “ The unseen world, with it angels, who are created intelligences higher than man, with its saints and spirits of just men made perfect, and still more with its bad angels and demoniacal spirits, is all an intense reality to me.”—Archbishop Clarke.