GREAT MOTOR RACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 4

GREAT MOTOR RACE.

FROM I'EKLN TO PAIUS. Paris, June 27. 1 Prince Borghese, the leader of the Pckin-to-Paris motor race, has arrived at Kiatehi, in Siberia. M. Pons was stranded at tiobi desert, and natives with camels are dragging hi motorcycle. Prince Khilkolf, the Russian Minister of Roads and Railways (whose i'aith in I the automobile is well-known, since he started negotiations for establishing services of automobiles in the Crimea before they were broken oir by the war), expresses the belief that the Pekin-to-Paris motor race will be followed by the

opening up of motor communication through China. The well-known motorist, .\l. Cormier, has been selected to acconipany the came! caravan from Pckin with the supplies of petrol, of which 4001b weight, equal to about fifty gallons, are to be distributed .along every sixty miles of the r „„( t ,. I All other arrangements for the comfort and convenience of the competitors when travelling through .Mongolia will be carried out by l)r Davidoff. In Russia the Government is faciliiating progress in every possible way, and so complete are the arrangements (hat even in the most out-of-the-way places in China, (he (lutomobilists will be in telegraphic communication with their friends at home.

The route is through Manchuria, via Kalzan, Urga, Irkutsk (Lake Baikal), Kansk, Tomsk, Omsk, Kurgan-Zlatoub, Kazan, Nijni-Xovgorod, Moscow, Warsaw, thence through Gcinuny and Belgium to Paris, a distance roughly estimated to be something between six thousand and seven thousand miles. -RELIGIOUS WORLD

RICHEST PARISH IN THE WORLD. The most heavily-endowed church in the Anglican communion is not to be found in England, but in the United States. '-The richest parish in the world" is the description given by the New York Churchman to Trinity Church of that city. Its annual incon;e from all sources, owept collections and contributions, amounts to aßout £153,000. Collections and contributions are re-' sponsible for another £IO.OOO. The parish pays £25,400 in municipal rates, £27,000 for repairs and insurances. It has outstanding loans to other churches amounting to £73,000. The communicants of Trinity Church and its eight Ichapels number 7271, with 3108 children .at the Sunday schools, and a clerical staff of one rector, eight vicars, and sixteen curates. The Churchman complains that the parish year-book, which now publishes this information for the first lime, does not attempt to account for the expenditure of the larger part of the in-