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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XXI, 22 November 1902, Page 1303

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Americans have subscribed £ 15,000 to the Queen Victoria memorial fund. Paris is alarmed owing- to the presence of nineteen incurable lepers in St. Louis Hospital.

The Bishop of London is prosecuting the Rev. Evans, vicar of Shoreditch, for extreme ritualism.

A rebellion has commenced in the south-east of Chili province against the payment of the war indemnity to the Powers.

Two insane women have been arrested at Sandringham. They professed to be seeking an interview with the Queen.

Mr. Chamberlain, replying to an invitation of the West India Club, expresses the hope that he may some day be able to visit t'he West Indies.

The reciprocity convention between America and Newfoundland forbids any concession or differential tariff to Britain or the colonies. The French Government has rejected the prayer of Behanzin, exKing of Dahomey, to be allowed to return to his country. Dr. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, refuses to visit any ehurch where the re-marriage of a divorced person is performed. Enormous tracts of land are offered for sale in the Orange Colony. Forty-four thousand morgen of farms will shortly be auctioned. The population of France increased last year by 72,398. The increase was due more to births than usual, but especially to a lower death rate. Labaudy’s, the French aeronaut’s air-ship, made several trips from Vaux to the Seine and returned against the wind to the starting point at a speed of 25 miles an hour. Lieutenant Dugdale, holder of the Victoria Cross, was killed while hunting in Gloucestershire, in the presence of his father, brothers and sister. The King on his birthday opened a new avenue on his estates, a tenants’ ®ift, fourteen royalties, including the King and Queen and the Kaiser, planting trees. The Anglo-Japanese trophy was the feature of the Lord Mayor’s procession. The Japanese Ambassador was accorded a warm reception at the banquet. M. Pobodonostzeff, the procurator of the Holy Synod, and member of the Russian Council of State, has resigned through ill-health. Count Sergius SoherdOstinofE succeeds him. Owing to several recent deaths under Christian science treatment Mrs Eddy, the head of that cult,, has forbidden her followers to “doctor” infectious and contagious diseases. Russian newspapers protest against the French Minister of Marines economising by reducing the Mediterranean crews by 3000, thus rendering the squadron ineffective. The North German Lloyd’s steamer Kelantan sank after collision with another vessel near Bangkok. Her name and the extent of the loss of life is not yet known.

The volcano of Santa Maria, in Guatemala, is in eruption, and has buried the towns of Palmar, San Felipe, Colombia and Coatpace. Many lives have been lost.

Four flying columns, with ten mountain guns, are leaving Kohat to punish Darwess, Chels, and Wariris tribesmen for harbouring raiders.

Mr James Henry Pickup, manager of a mill, and a magistrate and local preacher, of Bungay, Suffolk, has

been sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude for embezzling £ 1200 and falsifying accounts.

Seventy-one Royal German ladies, including two queens, have established a society for the elevation of public morality, and have appealed for funds to establish homes for fallen women.

A Yellow Book, dealing with Siam, has been published, wherein M. Delcasse states that France expects the King of Siam to abandon the settled and° systematic distrust of France which he has too long manifested.

Mr. J. M. Bacon and Mr. Stanley Spencer, the well-known aeronauts, sailed a steerable balloon from the Isle of Man, and landed in Dumfrieshire.

Mr Bacon’s balloon, in a recent experiment, steered well with a sail and trail rope in the water. The experiments are intended to ascertai.i the visibility of submarines at various depths." The gunboat Renard escorted, and exchanged messages with the balloon.

Reuter’s Agency states that at China's request the Powers will submit to The Hague Arbitration Tribunal the question whether a gold or silver basis shall be fixed for the Chinese indemnity. Germany has consented to the proposal.

Roland Molineux, charged for the third time with the murder of Mrs C. G. Adams, has been acquitted. There was a dramatic scene in court. Ladies rushed and kissed Molineux, and men threw’ their hats in the air, wildly cheering. General Molineux clasped his son in his arms.

Captain Amudsen leads a Norwegian expedition through Greenland and King William Land next year, and will try to locate the magnetic pole and solve problems of the north-west passage.

The Kaybles have demanded the release of several prisoners, including the murderer of the British missionary at Fez. The Governor refused the demand, and the British cruisers Furious, Pactobus and Promotheuse proceed to Tituan to support him.

Mr Buckley, proprietor of the Limerick “Leader,” has been sentenced to four months’ hard labour for publishing an intimidatory article.

Lord Rosebery, replying to Mr Brodriok, declared that the army was unprecedentedly strong, and the cavalry was 6000 above strength, while the" artillery was sufficient for five army corps.

Mr Brodrick, speaking at Dewsbury, said three millions had been spent in the concentration camps in two years. The Continental contributions of clothing, comforts, and money were only sufficient to keep the camps going for six hours.

The British and Germans at Tanganyika are bitter against the Belgians, whose cruel treatment has made the natives very hostile, and rendered expeditions into the interior impossible. The natives have decapitated a Belgian official.

The "Daily Chronicle” announces that ex-Canon Campello has returned to Catholicism. The Pope has imposed on him two years’ penance in a monastery. He thereafter becomes a Jesuit.

A movement is in progress in Arnelica to ask President Loubet to visit the St. Louis Exhibition and tour America, a United States cruiser conveying him back to France.

Sir Norman Lockyer, the eminent astronomer, says that the fire bulls seen during the recent storms in Australia were globular lightning, similar to that wi’nessed in connection with the eruptions of Mount Pelee and La Soufriere.

Seven hundred immigrants are stranded in Capetown owing to the local authorities refusing to countersign permits for the Transvaal. The Governor is wiring to Lord Milner for permits.

At a great meeting in the Albert Hall the Bishops of London and Rochester epproved the Education Bill, except that they urged the clergy’s right to superintend religious instruction, which thej- held needed safeguarding since the int roduction of Mr Slaney's amendment.

A Moorish juggler. Pretender to the throne, has been defeated with heavy loss. The heads of twenty of his follower’s now decorate the Fez Gate.

Three Italians have been sentenced at Leipzig to various terms of penal servitude for revealing to Fiance military secrets in connection with a fortress. A woman who carried information across the frontier has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment.

The captain of the Italian cruiser Carreo Alberto has telegraphed the Italian Government that daily wireless communications were maintained bv his ship with the Marconi station at Noldhi, in Cornwall, while crossing the Atlantic. Even when entering the port of Sydney, Nova Scotia, perfect communication was maintained.

The American Beef Trust Is establishing a line of steamers between Galveston and Europe to carry dressed beef.

The Beef Trust is erecting at its headquarters a sky-scraper building in Chicago, which will cost five million dollars.

The Labour Commission, organised by Mr. Alfred Mostley to study American problems of labour and capital, on visiting the factories in New York was impressed with the workmen's education facilities. Mr. Mostley, who accompuxiies the commission, remarks that the American workmen have a straight course compared with a hurdle race in Britain.

Mr Dan. Grove, who has arrived at Durban, declares that the Governor of Mozambique authorised him to hoist the Portuguese flag and proceed to Mokamba Bay. When he arrived in the territory of the chief Marave, he hoisted the Portuguese and Australian flags. The chief declared his willingness to protect the latter, but not the former, until the release of his brother, who had been imprisoned for not protecting Portuguese envoys.

A telegram from Valparaiso states that owing to the defeat of the Bolivians by the Brazilians in Bolivia, on Sunday, President Pando has decreed Bolivia to be in a state of siege. The quarrel arose over the dispute ownership of a rich rubber district.

The Bolivian President is organising a force of 2000 men to recover the captured territory.

The liabilities of Benjamin Fink, merchant, formerly of Melbourne, against whom a receiving order has been made, amount to £ 135.255, of ■which £ 126,000 is for calls on shares in McCracken's brewery, Melbourne. The assets are nil. Fink attributes his insolvency to the drought and the calls on shares. The estate is being wound up in bankruptcy.

Cardinal Lague. Archbishop of Armagh, communicating with the Dub-

lin “Independent,” referring to the Education Bill, says that the Nationalists hare basely abandoned the Irish Catholics of England in their hour of sorest need. He adds: “We have supported the party by voice and purse since its formation, and this is our reward.”

In the House of Commons, when the Government commenced to put the guillotine process into operation on the Education Bill, they were met with cries of “Gag,” the Opposition forcing divisions on every Finisterial amendment until an early hour in the morning. The whole of the clauses determining the policy of the bill have now been debated. The rest deals with the machinery of the bill.

The long list of King’s Birthday honours has been published, including the following: Privy Councilors: Lord Revelstoke, partner in Baring Brothers; Sir J. C. Dinsdale, Lord Mayor of London; Mr G. H. Finch. M.P.; Mr Henry Hobhouse, M.P.; Sir R. J. Cartwright, Canadian Minister for Commerce. Baronets:—The eight baronets created include: Mr August Prevost, governor of the Bank of England; Mr C. B. Renshaw, MU’.; Mr F. G. Banbury, M.P.; Mr Hargreavas Brown, Grand Cross of the Bath: Admiral Lord Ghas. Scotk Commander St. Michael and StGeorge: Major-General French, la'e Oommandant of the New South Wales Forces. Companion of St. Michael and St. George: Mr Frederick Dudley North, clerk of the Executive Council of West Australia. Knights Bachelor: Twenty-seven Knights Bachelors are created, including Mr J. \V. Hacket, member of the West Australian Legislative Council. Imperial Service Order.—A hundred and seven Companions of the newly-instituted Imperial Service Order are also created. It is noticed that considerable prominence is given among the distinctions to the promoters of commerce. Mr Hackett, a member of the Western Australian (not South Australian) Council has asked to be allowed to decline the honour of knighthood. Viscount Kitchener, who is en route to assume the chief command of the Indian army, opened the Gordon College at Khartoum, at the end of last week, in the presence of manj native notables and Europeans. [The proposal of a memorial college named after the great general who lost his life in Khartoum was first suggested by Viscount, then Lord. Kitchener, in 1898. Very little difficulty was experienced in raising the £100,900 which was deemed necessary for the project. The object of the college Kitchener explained when first making the proposal was “that nt Khartoum there should be founded and maintained with British money a college bearing the name of the Gordon Memorial College, to be a pledge that the memory of Gordon is still alive among us, and that his aspirations are at length to be realised.” He went on to say: “We should begin by teaching the eons of the leading men. the heads of villages and the heads of districts. The teaching, in its early stages, would be devoted to purely elementary subjects—such as reading, writing, geography, and the English language. Late.r, a more advanced

course would be instituted, including a training in technical subjects, specally adapted to the requirements of those who inhabit the Valley of the Upper Nile. The principal teachers in the College would be British, and the supervision of the arrangements would be vested in the GovernorGeneral of the Soudan. I need not add that there would be no interference with the religion of the people.”