NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 March 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Dr Walter C. Smith, minister of the United Prcc High Church, _ Edinburgh, attained his ministerial jubilee last Christmas Day, having been ordained on Christmas Day, 1850.

M. Padorewski is said, .to be so en chanted with thd Scottish Highlands that lie has taken steps to secure a suitable residence with the view of spending three months of each year there. The yearly statistics of the Society of Friends gives a total membership throughout tne workl of 114 ; 006. In the United States the membership has reached 9:?,493in England there arc 10.153 (including 768 residing abroad) and in Ireland 2609. Jews who have settled In the Holy Land for a considerable time, whether subjects of Turkey or of Foreign Powers, have boon granted the right to buy agricultural land, and to have the property inscribed in their own names. For many years past Jews have heen forbidden to acquire landed property in Pa'cstine. The consumption of horse-flesh in Paris ia increasing. According to the returns of the Minister for Agriculture upwards of 2:1,950 horses were killed in the French capital for food during the last official year. About 25,000 horses were brought for slaughter, but a thousand failed to pass inspection. Horse beef varied in cost from a penny to Is lOd per lb in the Paris markets.

A Times telegram from Shanghai states j that tho Chinese Customs revenue for 1900 is 22,700,000 taels (native ounces of silver), which though about 4,000,000 taels short as compared with 1899 is equal to that of any previous year. The shortage is much less than was expected, and tha higher exchange makes the bondpaying power of the revenue above the average of recent years. During 1900 the number of students (including 209 women) at Edinburgh University was 2754. Of this number, 842 (including 215 women) were enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, 101 (including t'ireo women), in the Faculty of Science, 40 in tho Faculty of Divinity, 348 in tho Faculty of Law, 1338 (including 13 women) in the Faculty of Medicine, and 25 (ineluding 21 women) in the Faculty of Music.