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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 7

Monmgnor Luigi Nicora, appointed by the Pope two years ago Bishop of Come, has juat died, after a long course of harassing anxuty, owing to the persistent refusal of the Government to grant him the exequatur. The bthop had never been able to exercise his fall function-j. He was obnoxious to the Government as a strong intransigente. Frobaic statistics sufficiently explain the Red Indian rising in Dakota. Thirty years ago tbe white pjpula'ijnof Dakota would have filled little more thaa half the sitting space of Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle. Now it amoui.ts to three-fifths of a million, with between 6,000 and 7,000 mfles of railwi.y io eairy their tr< Sic ! In other words, the R;d Indian races are being driven out of their homes. Between thu Red man end the white American there does not exist a trace of that mutual good feeling which, for instance, characterise s the present day relations between the Zulu and English races in South .Africa. The Emperor William took part lately at Berlin in a conference on higher education. He said if the schools had done their duty they would themselves have opened the war upon social democracy. Since 1871 emphasis had been laid on the ucquirement of knowledge and not on the formation of character adapted to the requiremei t-i of modern life. At present the cbii f matter <i concern was to place education on a natiot al basis. The Emperor declared that he was in favour of classical gymnasia and schools with a modern side, but not of gymnasia exclusively for modern subjects.