The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-11-28 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DUBUN  THE PASSING WEEK.  The King and,Queen of Sweden left Rortemouth on Saturday for Paris, eia Cherhoer., in the Royal eaoht. Victoria and Albert. Their Majesties took leave of King Edward and Queen A.leaanclra at Windsor. a number of the Royal Family. accoinpanyjog the departing guests to. the, railway station.  • • • • The Bishop of Birmingham. sp;Aaking at a meeting at. Toynbee Hall on Saturday. said something ought to be done at Oxford IJaiversity to rectify the present misuse of endowments which were intended .to hell) those who desired to study but had not the meant. Those who did not .want to study should go elsewhere. _ _ _  'as  - George Nadin, a, seaman living in tanning Town; London, attaeked his wife and five children with a razor on Saturd4Y,und sci terribly injured three of the little ones that they died almost immediately.  _• • . Twelve Chinamen were baptised on Sunday night in Chriot Church Reformed Episcopal Church of England, Tuebrook,.Liverpool. A service in. the Chinese language, was held ,before the ceremony.  Mr. Carnegie, in a magazine article published in New York, asserts that the time ' is now past for the protection of American , industries. and urges that a- tariff for re, Ivenue purposes should now take the place of the tariff for protection, and a substantial reduction be made in all duties except Ithese imposed upon luxuries 11. P. Wakley. an ea-inspector of the Barmall 13olioe force, who has lately resided with hie wife and child at Hove, on Sunday 'niorking shot them both dead, and then killed himself. •-• • •  The "euppreeeed Kaiser interview" pub. Ilished by the New York World" is officially declared in Berlin to be "from•belainning to end_baeeleee inventions."  The Divorce Division on Tuesday rescinded the decree for the dissolution of her marriage granted to Mrs. Martha May Thompson, of Liverpool, the King's Proctor having intervened. The Judge said it was quite clear that Mrs. Thompson employed Mr. Quilliam to work up a ease in order to enable her to get it divorce. The court had been deceived by the gross misconduct of a solicitor. His Lordship condemned Mr. Quilliain ill the costs of the whole-proceedings, and ordered the statements pat in to be retained by the court. ".  While performing a sort of William Tell act at the Middlesex Mueio Hall, London, on Monday night, a Madame Clementine chot a young man named Herbert Lee. the bullet entering hie forehead. He wee taken Ito hoepital and died next morning. '  Dr: Como Lang, Archbishop Designate of .York, at Bradford, on Tuesday sight, made an earnest appeal for brotherhood. He said that they did not feet that the Church had yet caught the-tone and spirit of it. The old Church had somehow become frozen up with respectability, and it wanted a warmer heart Ind a readier hand for the average man. What the Society wished was to bring into the Church just that spirit which was now lacking.  S 0.. • •  A sum of .210,000 has been handed, to the i I Queen as the first nstalment of the profit.. on the sale of the Queen's Christmas Gift Book, the distribution of vrhiela. in the North of England is being arranged bv the "Liverpool Post and Mero.ary." .  Earl Carriniton Made a reassuring statement- in the house of Lords on Tuesday reading tht outbreak of foot and Mouth disease in America, and said as American meat was but 5 per cent. of our total enmity. the fear of high prices through the temporary dislocatio nof trade wee not serious. • • • •  Mr. 'Frank Clough, distriet suPerinteu-1 dent of police at Lyal'Dui.. has been murdered by a native constable, Mr. Clough's orderly also being killed. The murderer la' a police sowar whom Mr. Clough had threatened: The crime is in no way political.