HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 270, 31 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

MUSIC IN CHURCHES. HOM&, Dec. 19. The Pope has directad strict observance regaidmg the preserving of the use oi the Grugorian chants. He has condemned the transformation of church services into „ concerts and expresssed a strong dislike to the use of meretricious operatic music in churches. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Dec. 29. with the statement Government intended to certain (quondam followers, informed Mr Gibson that the usual whips would to him. VICTORIA'S -GOVERNOR. ft LONDON, Dec. 29. General Sir George and Lady Clarke have arrived in London. SLEEPING SICKNESS. LONDON, Dec. 29. Two natives from the Congo, suffering from sleeping sickness, have arrival in LiverjHxil for treatment at tnWSchool of Tropical Medicine. * AFGHAN AFFAIRS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29. Russia is projecting a railway from Samarkand to Ternlez, near the border of Afghanistan. TORTURING PRISONERS. Colonel Foss, governor of the prison of Nekoiajeff, Siberia, has'been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forgery and inhuman treatment and cruelty to prisoners by means oi the rack and other tortures. DEATH OF A NOVELIST. LONDON, Dec. 29. Obituary—George Gissing, novelist, aged 46. DR. DOWIE'S MISSION. Received 30, 10.15 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Dr. Dowie was farewelled by hjs Chicago adherents, and sails via 'Frisco for Australia on January 21st,'returning in June. He denitd that his wife took away with her property representing seven million dollars. MACEDONIAN GENDARMERIE. Received 30, 10.45 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 30. The Porte has agreed to the appointment of an Italian officer to command the gendarmerie in Macedonia. STRIKE SUSPENDED. PARIS, Dec. 30. The strike in the provision trades oi Paris is temporarily suspended in order to secure the release of the men who were arrested. SWEDISH EXPLORATION. LONDON, Dec. 30. Otto Nondenskoid, in long articles to the Times, describes the operations of the late Swedish Antarctic expedition. He states .the expedition I lound at Seymour Island and elsewhere traces of large fossil animals and rich fossil flora. s NIGERIAN EXPEDITION. LONDON, Dec. 80. The punitive expedition despatched a*»inst the llAatoos tribes lor attempting to kill the British Commissioner at Ekat in Southern Nigeria was. in the course of two months SUccessiul. The expedition destroyed ifteen villages in the Orou country killing many natives and losing only one man. It is unlikely that the natives will again cause trouble by hindering trade. ■ AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. Received 30, 10.15 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 30. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on Mr R L. Nash's articles on Australian finance, considers the interest on the Government debt abundantly secured. Australasian indebtedness is not too heavy to be borne Suspension of borrowing is desirable He adds that adequate sinking funds ought to accompany j nter . nal retrenchment.