VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10430, 22 September 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD

(Received Sept. 21, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. The Bishop of Carlisle, addressing the Diocesan Conference, declared there was no incorporate relation between Christianity and the world today, and the result was the deadness, if not the approaching death, of Ckristisrtiity. Theological colleges sent forth men steeped in the caste feeling and unable to speak and preach with conviction. Empty churches were partly due to stereotyped anarclironistic theology. Idolatrous money worship, with a decreasing sense of the dignity of labour, was producing industrial unrest and even despair amongst the lower classes.

RICHARD ARNST. (Received Sept. '2l, 9.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 21. The Telegraph publishes an interview with Arnst, who states he is not now prepared to accept £750 to go to England- to meet Barry. He will not consider the matter under £IOOO. He-in? engaged in a lucrative business. If Barry wants a race he must como here or pay £IOOO. He is prepared to allow Barry moderate expenses to row on the Paramatta.

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. (Received Sept. 21, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 21. The Assembly proceedings yesterday were comparatively quiet. Mr McGowen outlined the business for the session. Mr Wade expressed with the Premier's vagueness regarding the'date of the. dissolution of Parliament. Mr MeGowen replied that the Government would carry on until succesfully challenged.

CANADIAN ELECTIONS. (Received Sept. 21, 8.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 20. There was a riot at an election meeting at Montreal, the follower of Bourassa fighting with Laurier's supporters. . The police suppressed the disturbance. Many persons were injured.

STOLYPIN'S DEATH. (Received Sept. 21, 12.15 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 20. Bogrof, the murderer of Stoiypin, has been handed to the Court Martial. Stoiypin on his deathbed' received a telegram signed "Bogrof's unhappy parents," which read: "We are horrified at the dreadful deed perpetrated by our senseless son, and pray God for your complete recovery." The father was afterwards arrested on the frontier. The Czar, in a rescript, states: "Expressions of indignation are reaching us from all sides and show that all right-minded people'share our resentment at the ruthless outrage committed in our presence on my Prime Minister,, my true servant, and courageous champion." A post mortem revealed the fact that the bullet had shattered the rib and pierced the liver.

THE PRIZE FIGHT. (Received Sept. 21, 12.15 p.m.) CAPETOWN, September 20. The South African News states that it appears that the Government will prohibit the importation of cinematograph, pictures of the Johnson-Wells fights fearing its effect on the native mind.. (Receved Sept. 20, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. The Rev. F. B. Meyer's campaign is gathering force. Columns of protesting letters appear in the newspapers.. Mr.Meyer visited the Home Office. An influentially signed memorial is being prepared and the Bishop of London has joined the agitation.

MEDICAL CONGRESS. (Received Sept. 21, 10.55 a.m.) , SYDNEY, September 21. At the Medical Conference,' Dr. Lawrence, president of the Dermatology section, dealing with radiumtheraphy, declared it was of great value in connection with inoperable malignant conditions and occasionally surprising results followed radium treatment. It was of immense value in the treatment of skin diseases, but a judicious selection of cases for treatment was absolutely necessary.

AN AWFUL DISEASE. Professor Allen (declared that five thousand cases of/syphilis were recently discovered,/the result of a collective investigation in Melbourne by means of the Wassermann test. It wag provisionally estimated that seven per cent of the population of Melbourne' was infected at some stage or degree. There was no reason to suppose Melbourne was worse than any othor capital. • VALUE OF FASTING. Dr. Hayward, in A paper on the Treatment of Disease, declared that he was becoming convinced that fasting for health was a valuable therapeutic agent and was justified on physiological grounds.

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