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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 46, 21 August 1891, Page 25

I After hie prodigious labours, the Pope Leo XIII. is highly flattered at their result. The success obtained by the " Encycliqne " on the social question is beyond his hopes, and b» daily receives hundreds of letters and telegrams of sincere congra Nation.— Vanity Jp&xr. Further experiments have been conducted at Cherbourg with the submarine bo*t the Goubet, which was manoeuvred at a depth varying from five to ten metres under water, and made to pass round two ironclads anchored in the harbour. The Commission before whom the trials were held declared then to be highly satisfactory. The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the grand missionary work being done in Africa by Cardinal Lavigerie, says :— "While British Protestant missionary societies have been exercised as to whether they get fair results for their money, the Catholic Church has bees perfectiog one of those enterprises which only her superb organisation renders possible. Distasteful as the admission mast be, there » no blinking the fact that in missionary work she is facile prineeps among the Churches. Those two principles of celibacy and obedience may be all that our irreconcileable Protestants deem them, but in missionary countries they work wonders." At least a dozen persons were killed in Vienna dating the recent electric storm in that city.