GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BATTLE-CRUISER AUSTRALIA. _ By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Loudon, January 24. The trials of the battle-cruiser Australia will begin on February S, concluding at Spithead on March 4. PATE OF A STEAMER. Aden, January 24. The Estonia was towed into port, but she exploded and foundered.

THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. London, January "24. The Oxford-Cambridge boat race will be rowed on March 13. Give, Gailllen, and H. K. Ward will row for Oxford.

THE RUSSIAN WAY. St. Petersburg, January 24. ■Several Government engineers, including Saliski, harp been indicted for embezzlement. Saliski defrauded the State of £IOO,OOO in twelve months over £he construction of roads.

POSTAGE STAMPS FRAUDS. Washington, January 24. The postal officials have discovered postage stamp frauds involving millions of dollars. Regular brokers existed to put the stolen stamps into circulation. Thousands of firms were robbed yearly, and the burglars were always able to dispose of the stamps. Consequently this form of robbery was frequent. Many arrests have been made.

THE CHURCH AND LABOR. London, January 24. The Bishop of London, addressing the ' Christian Social Union, said that during twenty-four years lie had not seen much improvement in sweating and overcrowding'. The labor movement was really religious. The labor leaders were religious from the bottom of their souls. The Church ought not to be satisfied with the existing state of things. In that sense they ought to be revolutionists. SIR GEORGE REID ON CHRISTIANITY. London. January 24. Sir George Reid, presiding at a meeting of the Colonial and Continental Church Society, eulogised the Rev. Mr. Watts Ditchfield, who recently visited Australasia. In his address he said he did not know of any Ensrlisliman who had visited Australia without returning a better man and a better Imperialist. Christianity was perhaps less evident in the churches than formerly, but more in the world, where it was leavening the lump of humanity. The Australian was a bit slack on the religious tack. Sir Georcre added that there was grand work for the Church to do there, as in England.