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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 34, 29 May 1891, Page 7

A dispatch from Washington brings this information : "The Catholic University in this city is to be the centre of a great educational body composed of many of the religions orders of the Catholic Church. Tbe Pauliat Fathers of New York have a house of studies on the university grounds. Their students attend the university. Now tbe Dominicans have bought property near the university, on which they are going to erect a house of strdies. The Maiist Fathers and the Lazariet Fathers are making arrangements to fti',l w the example of tbe Paulists and Dominicans. W. S. Came writes from India of his visit to tbe Maharajah of B.r >da :— " We were taken to the old palace, in tbe heart of tbe city, to see the treasure room Two huge cheetahs, carefully muzzled, used for hunting bjeks, were on the palace steps. The regalia of Baroda is valued at £3,000,000. We were first shown the jewels worn by the Maharajah on state occasions. " These consist of a gorgeous collar of 500 diamonds, some of them as big as walnuts arranged in five rows, surrounded by a top and bottom row of emeralds of the same size. Tan pendant is a famous diamond called the " Star cf Deccan," an aigretta tt match is worn in tbe turban, then followed strings of pearls of perfect roundness, graduated from the siae of a pea to that of a large marblt, wondrous rings, necklaces clusters of sapphires and rubies as big as grapes. The greatest marvel of all is a carpet, about 10 by 6 feet, made entirely of strings of pure and coloured pearls with central and corner circles of diamonds. This carpet took years to make, and cost £300 000. This was one of Kbinde Rao's mad freaks, and was intended to ba sent to Mecca to please a Mahomn.edan lady who had fascinated him ; but such a thin? being done by an Hindoo prince was too serious, and it never left Baroda. We were also taken 10 Bee two gune. weighing 280 pounds each, of solid gold, with two companions of silver, the ammunition waggon?, buUock harness and ramroda all being silver."— Trader,