What the Cables Say.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 14, 6 April 1899, Page 15

What the Cables Say.

Numbers of anti-ritualists visited High Churches in Liverpool on Good Friday. Large detachments of police restrained them from committing any mischief. Protection was also afforded to Roman Catholics in their annual ritualistic processions at the London Docks against Kensit followers. Mr. Charles Slaughter, counsel for the late Westralian Aborigines Protection Board, in a letter to St. James' Gazette, Bays that the administration! of Justice for the northern part of the colony towards aborigines, Chinese, and Japanese, is a horrible The Mayor and City Council of Limerick have increased the local improvement rate in defiance of the Local Government Board. Present Kruger has been on a visit to Johannesburg. Addressing a gathering of 5,000 persona he said the Government only discriminated between loyalty and disloyalty. There must be no bigamy, and newcomers must forswear the old country if they desired burghership in the new land. The petitioners who wished to come under another Government were fishers in troubled waters, and impeded reforms. If they were loyal, the full franchise would not long be delayed. Sharp fighting is reported from the Niger. Fifteen hundred Ibo Natives surrendered to the British forces. A vast country has been opened up westward from Akassa. Mr. Cecil Rhodes ha,3 donated £50 to the Sir George Grey memorial. The Times states that Sir M. Hicks Beach is confronted with a probable deficit of two and a half millions. The expulsion of a French priest lecturing on Socialism at Liege provoked a furious scene in the Belgian Parliament. The members of the Left and Right were prevented assaulting each other. Soldiers expelled spectators, who, owing to the excitement of Socialist Deputies, refused to leave. The boiler of a Mississippi steamer exploded at Memphis. Sixty persons were drowned. The Czar makes arbitration the chief question at the Peace Conference. Britain will energetically support the proposal. The French cruiser Dassas has been ordered to Jubitil, on the Gulf of Aden, to bring home Major Marchand, who has been gazetted a Commander of the Legion of Honour. An appalling disaster is reported to have occurred, on Thursday of last week, whilst a steamer was making a special excursion from Southampton to the Channel Islands. The steamer left Southampton with 210 passengers on board, and when nearing Alderney crashed on to the Casquets, a very dangerous group of rocks. The sides of the vessel were ripped open, and fifteen minutes after striking she went down, her boilers exploding at the same time. Notwithstanding the great heroism displayed by the crew and many of the passengers upwards of «0 persons were drowned. A London cable states that the Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, D D Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, while preaching at St. Margaret's Church on Sunday, created a sensation by declaring that the Athanasian Creed was not a creed, but was a hymn of a barbarian age, embodying the rejoicings of believers in the Trinity over the Arians. He further declared that nowadays portions of the creed were not endorsed by a number of congregations. Several of the worshippers left the church as a protest against the preacher's utterances. Rudyard Kipling has gratefully acknowledged the wonderful world-wide sympathy and affection tendered him in his recent illness and bereavement. Mr. Richa-d Chamberlain, a brother uf the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, is dead. The steamer Stir of New Zealand has returned to Gravesend, and is discharging her cargo of dynamite. She co lided daring a fog off Beachy Head with the German steamer Pontos, from South America. The Pontus was sunk.