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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 41, 29 July 1892, Page 25

It is reported that an important step in advance has been made with regard to the Catholic missions in Africa, Tbe German Government has just given permission for the establishment of a mission house for training missionaries. So far this concession is only made to the Pallotine Fathers, of the Pioas Missionary Society, bat it is expected that other concessions will soon follow. The institute will prepare missionaries for the colonies in West Africa only. Tbe Fathers already engaged in work on the Eastern coast, belong to the Congregation of the Holy Ghost ; bat this congregation is expatriated from Germany by the laws of the Kulturkampf, the Order being considered as " kindred "to the Society of Jesus. Tbe news of the establishment of an independent Ba9t African Apostolic Vicariate ia expected from Rome in a few days. Tne missions will then pass under the jurisdiction of the German bishop, Dr Stephen Baar, of Bagamoyo ; till now they had been under the Bishop of Zanzibar, a French prelate.— Liverpool Catholic limes.