GREEK AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 969, 9 November 1910, Page 7

GREEK AFFAIRS.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. November 8, 10.55 p.m.) Athens, November B. \ Fronch officers will superintend the reorganisation of the army. It is hoped that British officers will bo engaged to reorganise the navy. . The Turkish boycott of Greek commerce continues with increased rigour.

Last evenine a man named Thomas Lavin was pulled out of the harbour by- the watchman of the Tarauaki Street wharf. Lavin who was lately a cook on the steamer Blenheim left the steamer yesterday morning and was found in tho harbour with a broken arm and his head cut. Tho injured man was brought to tho Lambton . Quay Police Station where a doctor was called in, who ordered his removal to tho hospital.

Tho Jubileo Church Congress opened on September 27 at Cambridge, aud continued throughout tho week. The Bishop of Ely delivered the presidential address, in which ho considered the place which the Churclr Congress had occupied in tho last 50 years of the history of tho English Church and suggested tho Junctions which it ought to discharge in tho economy of tho life of the Church. The real justification of the existence of tho Church Congress lay in its primary function of creating and strengthening in tho Church a righteous, instructed, largohearted, far-seeing public opinion. At tho present time they had a two-fold duty—to bear witness to tho Christian origin of all ideals of social servico and to bear their full share, of thought and notion in. grappling with the social and moral problems of tho day.—"Standard of Empire." In Odessa and other Russian towns football playing is becoming a fashion. It was introduced partly by soldiers who served in Crete and saw the gauio played by British Soldiers, and partly by tho oxainplo of tho British Athletic Club in Odessa. '