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BRITISH COAL CRISIS.
London, April 1,
A
MISSION OF HEALING.
Forthcoming Visit of Mr. J. M. Hickson. The Bishop cf Victoria, in for- warding the following for pub-|
Reports from the coalfields show that the stoppage will be general lication, writes: "I have had very to-day.
interesting accounts of Mr. Hick- The most depressing factor of the situation is the Federation's son's work, both in India and the persistence in seeking to withdraw the pumpmen. The public is now States, and I think that his visit anxiously awaiting the national conferences which the railwaymen to Hongkong will be found to be and transport workers have convoked for next Wednesday to decide one of public interest." the extent of the assistance they will be able to render by sympathetic
action. It is noteworthy that whereas the minara' former disputes Mr. James Moore Hickson is left the Triple Alliance free to decide its own course of action they hoping to arrive in Hongkong on are now pressing for active assistance. The outcome of the con-Sunday, April 10th, by à.s. Takada, ferences is in nowise hopeful in view of recent speeches in which the He is a lay member of the Triple Alliance leadors have sympathised with the miners' position, Church of England, and will con- opining that the conditions as to the mines are a prelude to a general duct a Mission of Healing at St. | attempt to reduce wages.
John's Cathedral. He will work under the sanction of the Bishop: of Victoria.
A PERUVIAN CONTRACT.
London, April 1. The Marconi Company will shortly operate the whole of the Peruvian postal and telegraphic wireless services. for twenty-five years, the consideration being five per cent, of the gross receipts and fifty per cent. of the annual profits. Sir William Slingo, Engineer in Chief, General Post Office, has been appointed chief.
AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S COUP.
London, April 1.
Mr. Hickson has just concluded an extended tour in India, where he has held Missions in the dioceses of Colombo, Travancore, Dornakal, Madras, Bombay, La- hore, Lucknow and Calcutta.
Writing of his time in India, the Metropolitan (Dr. Fose Westcott).' says that all the Bishops have spoken warmly of his work, and they consider that the spiritual effect has been more striking than the physical, though there have been many very remarkable cures from deafness, blindness, and paralysis, besides other diseases. Another Bishop writes: "He has an undoubted gift of healing, and a wonderful way of stimulating| faith and holy living. I hear no- M.thing but good reports-and won- derful reports from the places in India he has visited."
A Buda Pest telegram to a Fribourg newspaper says that Admiral Horthy has resigned his authority to the ex-King. Soveral garrisons have acclaimed Karl, as well as various authorities, and troops are marching on Buda Past, joined by an enthusiastic population. Andrassy hus been appointed Premier by ultimatum in Buda Fest,
BRITISH REVENUE RETURNS.
London, April 1.
The results of his Missions are koth physical and spiritual. Enormous crowds flocked to him in India. Some cures were palpa- ble and seen by all. Others were reported afterwards: Limbs straightened, sight restored,
Revenue exceeded the estimate by £7,684,666 and expenditure totalled £1,195,000,000, being £75,750,000 under the estimate. The disease healed. results are regarded with much satisfaction in view of the great The following is taken front an und unanticipated trade depression. £288,000,000 were realised in the account of Mr. Hickson's Mission, year 1920-1 from sales of surplus stores compared with £265,000,000 in a town in South India: "The for the previous year.
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Seattle, April 1.
Mar Thoma Metropolitan, as well as our own Bishop (the Bishop of Travancore), was present in the sanctuary at the Healing Service or the first day, and on the next day the Suffragan Metropolitan attended and remained through- out, delivering the Benediction at the close. Besides our own clergy several kattanars of the Mari Thoma Church and one or two jacobite kattanars were present Pach day. Among the sick folk there was hardly a section of the community unrepresented. Even Brahmana and Nayars and aristo- cratic-looking Syrian Christian ladies knolt side by side with out- By an odd revolution of the wheel of fortune Mr. Daniels, ex-Christian, all thought of religious casts, non-Christian as well as Secretary of the Navy, who has returned earlier to his avocation as or social distinctions put aside for a newspaper correspondent, calls daily at the Navy Department in the moment, all being filled with Washington inquiring for news.
The passenger steamship Governor was sunk this morning off the coast of Washington as the result of a collision with the freighter West Hartland from Seattle to Bombay. It is believed that all the passengers have escaped.
EX-SECRETARY DANIELS.
New York, April 1,
RED CROSS SOCIETIES.
London, April 1. The Geneva conference of Red Cross Societies has agreed to the proposal of the Dutch Indies Red Cross to participate in a Conference.
IRISH BARONET'S SON,
Vancouver, April 1
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EARLIER
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
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(From Our Own Correspondents./
RUBBER RESTRICTION.
the same need and the same hope. The catholicity of suffering and' the catholicity of Christ's compas- sion and will to heal was the thought aroused by the spectacle,” Previous to visiting India, Mr. Hickson laboured for sixteen months throughout the dioceses of)
also the American Church, and visited, Canada, holding a remark- able Mission in Toronto.
Dr. Manning, now Bishop of} New York, in a letter to Mr. Hick- son on the conclusion of his Mis- sion in America, says: "As I look! back over it all, my wonder and thankfulness for the results grows uceper and doeper. Such $ response as you have found, and such results as have followed, would not have seemed possible to any of us. It is plain that, although we did not know it, the! time was ripe for this message. The help which your Mission has A Policy Wrongly Applied. brought to the sick and suffering has, indeed, been great; but it is According to the statements the testimony of all that the made in the Dist by the Govern- spiritual results have been ment, the authoriti s seem to be greater. bent on raising the price of rice
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO RAISE PRICE OF RICE.
Singapore, April 1. At a meeting of the Rubber
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8th, refusing to sanction the gazett rescue the farmers, who are suffer God's gift: that what is purely ing of a draft bill for compulsory ing pretty severely owing to the physical produces only physical cestriction of output but not fall in the price of rice, and thus results; what is mental affects objecting to unofficial publien contribute towards the solution of only mind and body; while of proposals. The tele- the food problem. When an spiritual treatment may affect the grame algo etated that tbe attempt is made, as is being done whole man. Secretary of State was anxiously by the Government, to force the The tentative arrangements for conidering the situation in price of rico up by artificial the Mission are វាន
follows. consultation with other departmeans, then this becomes a, good On Monday, April 11th, at 5 p.m., ments
and proposed to invite policy wrongly applied.
at the Cathedral Hall, Mr. Hick- general observations fropa the
The fact is that the well-to-do son will mest the clergy and other
not Rubber Growers Association. The landlords, the suffering workers who are to help in the local Rubber Producers Association farmers, will profit from a rise in Mission. The principal Mission. of Malaya, however, which is the price. Farmers belonging to Services will probably take place negotiating affiliation with the the middle and lower classes have on the mornings of Tuesday, Rubber
Growors, Association, parted with all their stocks of Wednesday and Thursday, April considers that Government in-grain, and any raising of the price 12th, 18th and 14th, from 10 a.m. tervention is now unlikely nod of rice will only benefit the richer to 12.30 p.m. On the last evening
Committee has been inlandlords who ate boarding food. of the Mission there will be a 6th, at 10.30 am. There will also Hickson lays the greatert structed to consider re-inaugura-Fall in prices is not confined to special Thanksgiving Service. be a daily service for preparation on preparation by prayer tion of voluntary restriction from rice alone. It is a tendency to
A preparatory meeting for those at St. John's Cathedral at 10.15 Mission. May to October to 70 per cent of which all commodities are be- interested will be held in the a.m. and Holy Communion on A list of detailed arrangeman last year's erop.
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