What the Cables Say.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 29, 24 November 1898, Page 15

What the Cables Say.

London. November 17.— The War Office is despatching 500 troops to reinforce the garrison at Halifax (Nova Scotia), and Esquimalt (British Columbia). Rome, November 18.— The Italian cruiser, Umbria. will be despatched to Mazan-el-Jedida, on the west coast of Morocco to present an ultimatum to Morocco for her ill-treatment and irn prison ment of Italians. • Shanghai, November 18.— Chinese rebels looted the town of | Kwei-choufu, in the Province of Suchwan, and burned the French mission. London, November 19.— The new battleship Formidable was launched at Portsmouth yesterday. She is of 15,000 tons displacement, with a speed of 18 knots, and armament similar to that of the majestic, ihere was a great display of bunting at the launching, the British and American flags being entwined. London, November 20.— Mr. Chamberlain is promoting a movement for the establishment of a university at Birmingham. Vienna, November 20.— Galician newspapers report the existence of a widespread Socialist and Nihilist conspiracy amongst the students of the Universities of Warsaw, Wilna, Kieff, and Moscow. Five hundred have been arrested. Of these, 80 have been sent to Liberia, 80 were awarded minor punishment, and 200 expelled from the universities. London, November 20.— A Conference of Bishops to consider the question of ritualism in the Anglican Church unanimously resolved to refuse the institution in benefices of clergymen, unless bound* 8 prepared to make a P led ? e *° keep ritualism within defined Constantinople, November 21— Unless Turkey satisfies American claims with regard to the destruction of American missions in Armenia, America threatens to make a naval demonstration in Turkish waters. Madrid November 21.— Spain, yielding to the advice of Germany and Austria, accepts America's conditions, but repudiates responsibility for the Philippines and Cuban debts. Morocco November 21.-The forces of the Sultan have been defeated by the rebels at Tafilet. France is urging the Government to concert strong measures to suppress the rebellion in that place Marakasse has i demanded the coast where the Riff pirates were triumphant. Two of the Sultan's uncles have joined the revolt. Paris, November 21.— M. Paul de Cassagnac urges France to Britain PnVateermg " gbt3 Wi ° h * Vi6W tO circumven ti n g Great Sydney, November 21 —Viscount Hampden has resigned the Governorship of >,ew South Wales on private grounds. He will probab'y leave the colony about March

Mr. Rider Haggard is sin encouraging example of what patience and perseverance can achieve. No one would take his first book and he had to pay for the production of it himsself. • She ' was written in six weeks, and Mr. Haggard, unlike most sensational writers, has never kept a note-book. He dictates all his work to a typist, but not until he has already written out the story in his own handwriting. A (correspondent sends us (Adelaide Southern Cross) the following reference to instances in whioh lotteries were recognised in the Scriptures :— I. Samuel, chap. ix. verse 42 ; I. Chronicles xxiv., 31 ; Matthew xxvii., H5 ; Acts i.. 2ii ; Numbprs xxvi. 55' xxxvi. 04, 34, 13; Joshua xv. 1, xvi. 1, xvii. 1 and 14, xviii 11 xix. 1, 10, 17, 24, 40, xxi. 4 ; I. Chronicles vi., 54 ; Judges xx' 9 •' I. Samuel xiv., 41; I. Chronicles vi. G3, xxiv. 5 and 7 xxv' 9 •' Esther iii., 7 ; Proverbs xviii., 18 ; Acts i. 2(>, xiii. 19. ' ' ' ««Bre. A clergyman travelling in a workmen's train' was somewhat shocked at the strong language of a fellow passenger. Taking advantage of a momentary pause in a flow of rhetoric, the parson mildly inquired, 'My good man please tell me where you learn the language you have just made use of.' 'L> am it, guvnor V replied the man affably, as if to a would-be disciple. ' You can't karn it It's a gift, that's what it is.' There is a story of a king who ruled over a land of milk and honey for some years. He found out one morning that no one thought a great deal of him, and, in fact, it was scarcely known that his kingdom held a king. So he had a man executed in public by royal decree, and thereupon everybody lauded his power and justice and paid their arrears of taxes— arid many also paid their arrears of newspaper subscriptions.