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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 149, 22 April 1914, Page 1

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If the mobs of American tourists whoi invade foreign cathedrals regardless of the services they are interrupting weroi arrested en masse and sent to. gaol unless they could prove they had gone to- church to worship,, the Springfield Republican thinks it might be a good lesson in manners. To, promote the wprk of the National Council; the hon. director and secretary ,(Ro,v. James Marchant) will leave England in a few, weeks for a to,ur tof the world. The National Council has for its object the regeneiration of the race by the pra .ctioal application of religious, moral, and scientific teaching adapted to the needs of individual communities and nations.

Tho Paris Journal publishes a telegram from Rome stating that a young man of 19 who has been examined in the hospital, has been found to possess two separate stomachs. A mysterious explosion in a disused scwjelr beneath the. London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway line, at Plaistow: Station, occurred just as a fust train from Shoeburyncss was passing the spot. One of the coaches jumped, but did not get off the rails, and though a hole some Gft deep was made in the track the rails held together and the train passed- out of danger. It is assumed that gas escaping from a main near the line had accumulated in the old sewer and was exploded by the passage of the train over tho cavity. From Lelancl (Miss., U.S.) comes a lurid account of the burning there of a negro, A mob caught a negro accused of killing the deputy sheriff, and, after binding him, placed him on an oil-soaked dry goods box, to which a match was applied. The flames burned through tho ropes binding the negro, and the wretched man, with his clothing aflame, a(3lempted tp make his escape. The- mob flushed oil in pursuit, and shot ut him, killing him. The body was then replaced on tho pyre and incinerated.

An attempt has again been made to popularise baseball in England. So far back as 12th March, 1889, a game at baseball by American players was played at Kpnnington Oval. The then Prince of AVales (Edward VII.) was present. The Now York Herald invited criticisms of the game on cards distributed for the purpose, and 1 now have a copy of the next day’s paper before, me. The Prince ot Wales said: ‘‘The Prince of Wales has witnessed the game of baseball with great interest, and though he considers it an excellent game ho considers cricket as superior. During the recent hearing of a case in his court of the King’s 'Bench Division (London) Mr Justice Pickford noticed a newspaper artist engaged sketching, and observed; “I see that there is somebody sketching the witnesses. I dislike it. and will not have it as long as I can prevent it. This is not a show." The artist at once left the court. Over two thousand people, mostly railway men, were present at a me,citing at Llanelly, which was addressed by Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P., who was persistently interrupted. It -was the first visit of Mr Thomas to Llanelly since the South AVales strike, and it was evident that there was a. strong party opposed to him. “Why don’t you leave the union if you are Wb,t satisfied?’’ he asked, and the ndsponse came, “We are stopping in to chuck you out."

Secession from the State Church in Germany, which is increasing so alarmingly, is accompanied by strict legal formalities, in which, as a. matter of course, the police are parties. Every person is assumed, unless possessing the requisite documentary evidence to .the contrary, to belong to one of the three Churches recognised by the State—the Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Jewish. These Churches have the; right to levy taxes ion their nominal members and can enforce payment by law. Birmingham licensing justices for the first time enforced new regulations which they have recently adopted for the control o ( f theatres and music halls. Qne of s the new rules is that the licensee-of a music hall shall maintain order during the hours of public performance, and ''permit nothing to he, done, acted, recited,, sung, or exhibited which is licentious, Indecent, profane:, or improper, frr likely to produce a breach of [the peace, and it was under this rule, that the "Charge was made. >A sergeant off police attended a music hall, and' stated that portion of the patter of a eouple of comedians (male and female) was distinctly improper. On the next night practically the same words were used. "Two Eiff chieftains were deeply interested spectators in a recent debate in the House of Commons,” says the Times. "Their impressions of the Chamber were unusually vivid and highly noivel. They came to the conelusion that the English were a lost tribe of Arabs. The Houses with ( its slender and ..soft lighting, ■ suggested to them an Arabesque intenor. The'y .hailed the, grille of the Ladies’ Gallery as essentially Oriental. And the deep obeisanegs 1 which the-tellers made in advancing to the table' reminded pf the [ manner in which they announce the result off their own, deliberations in the council!* of Morocco."