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WORLD CROWING BETTER. Preaching at the Ballarat (Victoria) Methodist Church on Sunday week, the l!cv. S. J. Hoban said that he did not think there was the same reverence for the Sabbath now that there was 25 years ago. Neither was there the same regard for the Bible. It was impertinence on the part of the Victorian Parliament to have refused the people the right to vote on the question of the Bible in State schools. Despite these facts, however, lie was optiipistic enough to believe that the world was improving. DIAMONDS in AUSTRALIA. The Mine in Copeton. The result of a fortnight’s clean-up of the wash at Copeton, in the Inveroll district in New South Wales, is said to have been nearly 1001) carats of diamonds. A Sydney syndicate stated last week that negotiations had been entered into with the buyer to take the whole of the output of diamonds at 30t*. per carat fur good atones. Mr, H. 13. Martin, who is the manager of the mine, said that a wclldelined gutter —an ancient river bed—had been discovered. It was covered with a lava flow after the tin and diamonds had been shed into the old river course. The shaft, which bottomed on wash at Gift, passed through 40ft of basalt wash, ranging from 2|ft to 2ft in depth. The output had run as high ae 20(3 carats to tlm yard, and 498 carats were got from 25 loads of wash. Mr Martin said that there were no signs - of volcanic pipe or blue clay, as at Kimberley. There was no analogy between the two formations. THE CARDINAL'S VOICE. “When he speaks on polities or on the referendum he speaks as a man. iflind him if you like, and don’t mind him it you don’t like ” So advjecd Archbishop Kelly at a gathering of Irish National Foresters in Sydney last week, in the course of some references to Cardin a] Moran and his views on matters political.

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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 2