Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An English paper says:— l see Mr Labouchere's name attached among others, to the Boothian appeal for money to carry on the " Darkest England " experiment. No doubt he has handed over a big cheque to the Salvationist treasury to help forward the good work ; faith without work is, he knows from his Biblical reading, entirely profitless for salvation. Can it be, however, that Mr Labouchere has in his mind the Indian begnm who built and endowed four, places of worship, one Protestant, one Boman Catholic, one Hindoo, and one Mahomedan, so as to be on the safe side whether the one religion or the other turned out to be true ?

On the 25th May last Dr Maclagan died at Berwick, He was a brother of the Archbishop of York, father of a Presbyterian missionary in China, and himself a faithful elder of the Presbyterian Church.

In the House of Commons, a clause was inserted in the Glasgow Police Bill, under which any person found on premises proved to be a " disorderly house " will be liable to a fine of five pounds.

Liverpool will shortly have a permanent Board of Conciliation for the settlement! of disputes between employers and employed. For some +ime past, there has been in the city a temporary Board of Arbitration, and sufficient experience has been gained to show the desirability of putting the movement upon a solid and authoritative foundation.

The publishers of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's sermons have at least, 800 sermons that have not yet been published, so that the weekly issue can be continued for sixteen years longer.

It is said that about three hundred millions of pounds of British capital has been invested in the Argentine Republic.