GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1932, 28 January 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

TWO NEGRO BISHOPS. Two negro clergymen have been appointed to (lie House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, in the United Stales. One has been made suffragan bishop of Arkansas, and the other of North Carolina. The. consecration of these two clergy men as bishops nfiords the- lirsl instance in which a negro has been raised to the United Stales episcopate, although it: is not the first time that one has sat in the American Jlouse of Bishops. DEATH DCIHN'O EXPERIMENT. A verdict of “death from heart disease" was .returned at" the in- < I nest on the body of .John Holding, aged 55 years, who died at (he Hampstead Military Hospital, while being experimented upon for trench lever. Dr. Brynn said there had been over ‘2,000 injections, and fids was the first death. After an injection in the right arm, Holding complained of pain, Iml recovered, and said that he.was ready to go on. As the syringe was being inserted into the vein of the left r.rm, the patient collapsed and died almost immediately. Dr. Spilslmry certified that death was due to heart disease, and that the injections were in no way responsible. WOMAN PRESBYTERIAN PREACHER. The war is responsible for the lirsl woman Presbyterian preacher in the United Slates. The Chemung Presbytery of New York Stale is the pioneer which ignored at! Presbyterian precedents, by licensing Mrs Lillian 11. Chapman lo preach the gospel. She is the wife of a Presbyterian clergyman abroad in war work. She was asked hv a session to supply his pulpil, and did so. The presbytery was, then asked to license her. and consented with only one dissenting vote. £30,1)01) LOST TO SEAMEN. In celebration of Ins seventieth year. Mr Joseph llonlt, a Liverpool shipowner, announced his intention in November, 1917, of giving £70,000 to various charities. The amount included £30,000 to be administered by the Mercantile Murine Service Association for the benefit of mercantile marine engineers and firemen. Mr llonlt died suddenly before the fund had been transferred. There was no provision in his will giving effect to this intention, and the Mercantile Marine Service Association has not received any portion of the money. The secretary of the association recently slated that applications have been received from about 300 apparently eligible and deserving candidates, but in the circumstances (here is no fund lo disburse. BKLEAST SHIPBUILDING. The following figures indicate the growth of merchant shipbuilding and repairing work at Bid fast during the war: — Built. Tonnage. Rep’ml. 1915 (5 20,000 UK) 1910 2 14,000 271 1917 17 145,000 207 1018 (10 months) 17 150,000 .107 The number of vessels arriving in Belfast harbour on Government business, mainly connected with the 1 building and repair of ships, which in 1910 was 818, for the 10 months of last year had grown to 2.037. At Warrenpoint, Carlingford Lough, a new yard for the building of ferroconcrete vessels, the only one of its kind in Ireland, has been constructed.