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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 5

Mr. R.-P. Glen,, who. for.many years pnst has been in cbnrgd of i the general merchandise, department of Messrs. Dalptt.Vand Company,' Limited, at Christchurch, has retired < from, active 6crvicc. On his retirement the staff presented Mm • with an album containing' the .' photo- . graphs of the whole of the staff, a tea . and-coffee service and two easy chairs. ' The Government, of India, has decided to prohibit the emigration of indentured Indians to' Natal from July 1 next: This action has been thought, necessary in the / ' interest of tho Indians, who arc refused the. right to remain in Natal as perman6Ut citizens, arid- are,, it is said, not treated with fairness bv the colonists. •Tho prohibition'has been welcomed by Indian employers!of labour'in tho coal, t<a, and other industries, but it is hardly likely to bo permanent. Its -oVect is to make ■ the.' colonial, Government" adont a more.liberal,policy. '(".".'•, . In-Paris it is tho custom • to permit beggars to solicit aims in tho street during ■ • tho Christmas and New Year holidays. There wa.« so notable an increase in their numbers this yeur that the police made inquiries, and. they discovered that Mrong Contingents had been imported from Spain by ft man who had paid their''railway expenses and provided them with foot! and lodgings in return for being allowed to pocket their takings. ' At tho sitting of tho Indian National Congress, n sum of 40,001) rupees (XlMti) fas subscribed, on tho snot towards a propaganda in England to awaken Englishmen to a senso of their responsibilities i:» India. Tho next Couftress will bo held in Calcutta.- but tho councils seem now to have absorbed-Iho best elements of the Congress, and unless a great change is niado.its further, usefulness is doubtful, ' The daughter of a functionary at'the. I'rench. Foreign Ministry had a dispute with her father in the building, and bred ■ »t him with. n. revolver. She./was disarmed, by persons who wcro awaiting an ' audience of M. Plelion, mul was removed first to the police depot, aud thence in a , fainting condition to. tho hospital, where v it waa .found she was suffering fnya a nervous breakdown.