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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 27, 24 October 1884, Page 23

The north of Italy has been lately the field o£ strikes among the reaper s. They have had scarcely any work daring the year. At Grignano, in the province of Eevigo, they captured the Mayor, J. Bennaro. They wanted him to free some of their companions from prison. While they were trying to stab him, and perhaps kill him, his young daughter dashed in" despair through the crowd, rescued her father, and brought him home safe. None dared to tonch her. They adopted a sort of war cry like the "Ca ira," 1 of the French revolution. Their cry is "La loje". which means, •• It boils." They compel the" farmers to stop work, they resist the police, even the regular attacks ot regiments of cavalry and infantry. The situation is bad. Much more so as the soldiers, chiefly recruited among the labourers, do not like to be compelled to fight their own fathers and brotWrS. A valued correspondent, writing from Buenos Ayres, says :— lt may, perhaps, interest some of our foolish people who are so eager to come to America, and who .may suppose that the facilities for saving their souls are the same here as in Ireland to learn that here, in this comparatively settled district (Ramallo), we have just had a visit from our priest after an absence of nine months, and that horsemen are now on their way giving notice to the scattered settlers of his advent ! He also attends the Falkland islands and a settlement at Magellan's Straits once a year ! I was speaking with him to-day, and he told me that since his absence from the latter places several of the settlers had gone to their last long home. Of course, facts like those are not likely to have any effect on the anti- Irish advocates of emieration, but they may, at least, be expected to influence the minds of Irish Catholics.— Nation.

It is as well for the Salvationists that they are carrying on their idiotic campaign, with midnight attacks and the rest of it, far from the haunts of civilized men. How long would they be tolerated in any village which could boast a policeman or two, were they to indulge in such wild proceedings as they perpetrated in the defenceless village of Gomri. This, in their own words, is what they did. " The great campaign in Gujarat. All officers present. Midnight attack on Gomri, 50 strong, brass band to the front. Silent march into the village, people all sleeping. At given signal 50 voices set np a loud shout, while two cornets blast forth. People amazed, tremendous crowds, Mighty Holy Ghost power. Big scrapping men prying for mercy. Meeting closed after midnight with 11 souls in the Fountain." Fancy any one but the mild Hindoo putting up with outrages of the kind. Why, even a harmless necessary cat cannot indulge in midnight music without attracting to itself a shower of missiles ' from every window less than a hundred yards off. The Indian Witness wants to know what shape this work will take. It will lead to a terrible assault yet upon the Salvation forces by somebody who objects to their way of making night hideous,— Bombay Catholic Examiner.