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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Pope hag entrusted Mr Errington, M.P., with an autograph letter to Her Majesty the Queen. In this communica. tion His Holiness thanks the Queen in cordial terms for the interest she has shown in the welfare of Catholics all over her dominions, and for the religious freedom which they enjoy under her government. Land and Water says “Mr Barnum has an eye on the claimant, and intends to run him on a tour when the unhappy nobleman is set free. The proposal has, however, been capped by a Yorkshire publican, who has offered the claimant’s wife a place as barmaid. The generosity of this Boniface is leavened by a nice calculation of what such a woman would be worth as a retailer of beer.” The return of the loss of human life and the destruction of cattle in the Madras Presidency by the attacks of wild beasts in the year 1881 has just been published. The number of animals killed was 1419, and Rs. 20,250 were paid as rewards ; 136 tigers and 750 panthers and leopards were destroyed; 1302 persons and 8938 animals were killed by wild animals an snakes—tigers killing 135 people and 3328 cattle. A HUMFiUESamitB tenant farmer will shortly come into a vast fortune, as one of the heirs of the late Mr A. T. Stewart, of New York. Seventeen of the millionaire’s relatives have been discovered in Scotland, and in America, on the father's side ; and the United States authorities are now seeking for his relatives on the mother’s side, who will share equally with'the others, if any can be found. There was always a mystery about Mr Stewart’s origin ; but it has been discovered that he was the son of a couple who were married at Dalmellington in 1798, his mother beingla Miss Hunter. Mrs Stewart, the widow, has already received her portion of £4,000,000, but nearly twelve remain for division. —Truth. Rev. Father Ignatius, 0.5.8., Evangelistic monk of Llanthony Abbey, commenced an “eight days' mission ” in Queon-street Hall, Edinburgh. In the course of his remarks and sermons, Father Ignatius spoke of the city as teeming with unsaved igen, and of the churches as being full of shams. Their profession of Christianity was a sham, and it was their unreality that made people mook at the Bible, Human nature, he said, was being set up as an object of worship, and materialism and rationalism were taking the place of the Bible; and what was still worse, the majority of professing Christians, like the Athenians of old, “cared for nothing of those things” which really developed Christian life. They had no enthusiasm abqijt tljp salvation of the masses. It was said thi)t religious gpthuslast?, such as the Salvation Army, brought religion intp contempt. He did not think so ; he thought it was thp (jgiet-goii)g Christiana svho did nothing.