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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 16, 16 January 1891, Page 2

The drawing off of the water from Feather River, California, exposed gravel rich in gold, and the present expectatation is that the yield will be millions of dollars. Under the head of " Men and Women who writa," the Pall Mall Gaze tte gives a sketch of M. Aubrey de Vere. The writer sayß : " He is a Caiholic of the type (no uncommon one either) of that Howard who lei England's fl^et against the Armada, and whom Mr. De Vere has gloiifiea in a fiae sonnet for his brave resolve that, come wh t might, so ' foot cf Parma 'should " stain the Louaebuiu Iluora " of England Though not a Nationalist, Mr. De Vere has also keen sympathies with Irish character and history — especially religious history.' 1 lhe Berliner Ivlktbltitt, the organ of the German Social Democracy, announces that the next International Workingnaen's Congress will be held in Brussels on August 1891. All labour organisation^ of the world will be invited to send representatives. The reports and other documents must be presented printed in English, French and German. Reports are limited in lengtn to sixteen-oc'avo pages. The Executive Committee has decided oa this order of busine&s : First, discussion of international and national legislation for protecting the workingm°n ; second, considera'ion of the right of organisation and combination of strikes and boycotts, from the international point of view ; third, definition of duties of workingmen towards militarism,