BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 307, 12 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

During the past three years there has been a decrease of 70 per cent, in the number of applicants for Catholic ordination in France, owing, it is said, to the precariousness of the voluntary contributions for the support of the clergy.

The Danish ex-Minister for Justice has been arrested at Alberta, in Canada, on his own confession, for forgery and defrauding the Zealand Peasants’ Savings Bank, of which he was a director, of £500,000.

A supposed German spy was arrested while attempting to purchase parts of guns from the magazine at Bourges, in France.

Silvio Rioter,’supposed to have been concerned in the attack on the Sultan, returned to Constantinople under the impression that he was safe under the recent amnesty J He was arrested.

The London General Omnibus Company carried 12,658,000 fewer passengers in 1907 than in 1906. This was chiefly owing to the completion of the tube rail ways.

Five days’ continuous rain greatly damaged crops in Scotland, especially in Perthshire and the lowlands. Much damage was also done in the north-west of Ireland.

Mr Belmont and other American racehorse owners are transferring their stables to France, owing to the anti-gambling law.

Mr Thomas Roseby, a Sydney barrister, has been appointed British Judge of the Joint Court to bo established in the Now Hebrides under the FrancoBritish Convention.

The “ North German Gazette ” implies that heavy additional taxation will be made on articles of general consumption, and more especially on luxuries. There will be taxes on gas and electricity, and an extension of legacy duties.

The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the tug Belmore, while on a voyage to Sydney, found that she was overladen when she left Port Said, her Plimsoll mark being submerged. Her stability av as insufficient to carry her through.

The work of salvaging- the cruiser Gladiator, which was sunk in collision with the American liner St. Paul in a snowstorm off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on April 25th, is proceeding apace. The ship has been placed on an even keel, preparatory to being floated and towed into dock.

The Glasgow unemployed made inflammatory speeches in George Square at midnight on Wednesday. The police dispersed them, but 3000 reassembled and started a march to the Lord Provost’s. When a quarter of a mile from their destination, mounted police suddenly charged and scattered the mob in all directions. They used their batons ferely, and many heads were broken in the conflict.

The Eucharistic Congress has opened in London. The delegates include eight cardinals, fifteen archbishops, seventy bishops, twenty-two abbots, and many other dignitaries from all parts of the world. During the four days of the congress 10,000 masses will be said, and there will be elaborate music in Westminster Cathedral. Papers upon various aspects of the history and development of the worship of the Sacrament of|the Eucharist will be read at the Horticultural, Caxton, and Buckingham Halls, and the entire congress relates to subjects connected with the Eucharist.