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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 32, 30 November 1888, Page 7

Two young Germans in Berlin fought a duel with tricycles. Starting at three hundie 1 yards apart, they charged full tilt against each other, With slight injury to themselves aud serious hurts to their machine's. Their honor was satisfied.

Four hundred Irish stevedores employed in Glasgow harbour, Scotland, have been dismissed. They will be replactd by Protestant* from Be'faat. It was feared that a rim would ensue. It is claimed by tl c emplnyei sts t hat the disch irged men belong to a Union which is constantly making intolerant demands.

The Moniteur de llome po.nts oui that in the present Encyclical appears the first declaration tver male by the Holy Bee that the Cnurch is not opposed to patriotic efforts to rid a natioo of foreign possts->ors or of despot*-. This is ancient Catholic doctrine, but it has been somewhat lost sight of, the Moniteur points out, during some hundred years in the works of Catholic theologians, fiightened by the principles of the revolution into a temporary reactionism. The faithful have been exphcitely permitted by a Papal utterance to prefer a constitution, tempered by the democratic element ; not that f-e doctrine is new, but precisely that it ia bo old as to need to be definitely restored.