NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 June 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

One of the large religious communities in Hungary has just refused to admit Jesuit teachers in the college attached to the order. In view of the financial ruin which has befallen them owing to the failure of cereal crops for the last two years, many of the principal agriculturists of South Russia intend to devote part of their holdings to viticulture. The Boer prisoners now in Ceylon have applied that their families may he allowed to join them. They add that they are asking for ground sufficient to enable them to make a living, as they like the country, and wish to become permanent settlers. A Catholic priest has been arrested in France after having been declared a bankrupt. It is alleged that his speculations in questionable commercial enterprises have resulted in losses amounting to nearly £200,000, and involved several thousands of creditors.

Mr Irving Montague, the wellknewn author and artist, and war correspondent to the illustrated London News, died at Brighton recently of the distressing disease known as ’“progressive paralysis,’’ brought on by overwork of the brain. The deceased had been through five campaigns and fifteen engagements, Plevna having been his most memorable battle.

A Massachusetts showman has offered the American Government £IO.OOO for permission to show Aguinaldo for a hundred nights, while another offers £50,000 for his lease for a year. Consul-General Guenther, of Frankfort Germany, reports the appearance at Nuremberg of the first automobile sleigh. The vehicle glides along with great speed and a perfectly easy motion. The London “costers” are beginning to dream of a coster M.P.

“Bodger” Nightingale, an Ilford athlete, carrying a sack of sand weighing one cwt, walked from the Wffiito Horse liford, to the Rose and Crown, Bow, a distance of four miles, in 59 minutes.

The discovery on the East Coast of Iceland of a large coal bed is reported. When the last mail left London the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund amounted to £78,000.

Daring the pist year 590 lives were saved by the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat In-.tituiiou.

The revenue of France shows a declining tendency. The receipts from indirect taxes decreased during March to the extent of 20,000,000 francs.

From Budapest comes the report of a remarkable burglary committed at the suburban station of Kcrkulestad. Three men delivered a coffin apparently empty for conveyance to Budapest, “ carriage to pay.” The last train having gone, it was locked for the night in the stationmaster’s office. Next morning the coffin was found with the lid off, and the office safe had been rilled.

If the Pope lives until February, 1903, he will have exhausted all the possible jubilees of his career—Priest, Bishop, Cardinal, and Pope—as he will then have reached the 25th year of his oceupacy of the Throne of Peter. In the same year he celebrates his golden jubilee as a Cardinal. Already a committee hns been formed under Cardinal Respighi, Vicar of Rome, to make preparations for the due celebrations of the Papal Jubilee of Leo XIII.

At the annual meeting of the Congregational Union, held in London on the 22nd April, Dr Parker, the Chairman, expressed his sympathy ■with Roman Catholics under the insult inflicted upon them by the Sovereign’s oath. The Inspector-General of Recruiting states that during the past year 49,260 men were recruited for the regular army and 87,853 for the militia, exclusive of the number raised for the Imperial Yeomanry and the Volunteer Active Service Companies. It is stated that when the whole of the sudd on the upper reaches of the Nile is cleared there will be a free navigable channel from Eejaf to Omdurman, a distance of 1200 miles.