General Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 8 May 1906, Page 3

General Items.

London, May 6

Mr A. Bouar Daw, ex-member for the Blackfriars division of j Glasgow, is a candidate for the Dulwich electorate owing to the resignation of Mr J. E. Harris, who is going to Japan. . A packed meeting of Catholics in Albert Hall protested against the Education Bill. Archbishop Bourne presided and many Catholic Peers and Commoners were present. Earlier in the evening a thousand Catholics assembled on the Embankment and thirty thousand were accommodated at an overflow meeting outside the hall. Rome:, May 6. The volcano Stromboli, on the island of Stromboli, south-west ol Italy, is active, emitting rocks and lava.

Mr Aslor has given Cliveden Hall and its contents to his son Waldorf, and a diamond worth j£20,000 to Mrs Eanghorue Shaw, on the occasion of their wedding. Eondon, May 6.

Reuter reports that representatives of the mining industry in Johannesburg are applying to the Supreme Court to test the legality of the reparation notice. In five weeks the United States has taken nearly three and a quarter million of gold from the Bank of England. The total return from all sources is nearly six million.