The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-01-09 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

UPOII.-C4ll- and Nigerous. .-e.rulearcur -grappls ,with.. it. -  ydico to devote Olika of the Even gatical- devote the first ooniplete weak the" 3kiii"to prayer- in 4.113 he drad'oduntslas In 'Which it has represent*. tiou watt 'put -kite- active operation. Or, gabbled in 18411,4 t is.inteuded by tha schetti• ta brio* llotOe to the Christian population of thevobe the importance and the effieisOY of prayer, and t has diet with -appfoval from-lading-Impl4! of the Church and the various Nonconformist bodies. It is estimated that several million persons m ill respond to their call . • • •  . . Erom the returns compiled by Lloyd's Register of • Ship Ping, it -appears that. excluding ichrthipS, there were 360 vessels-Of 764,320 tons gross under construction. in the United iKngdona at,the,clase 0f.1308, imcom parisou with ,433- ot $49,830 tonnage. at the ;oft i 1007. Three hundred and nineteen of the vessels are iteanierS and 11 sailing sh?Pi: Daring tite-last quarter of-the 'Foal' tfle 'Steard'ets and five sailing vessels were launched in the,:litiited Kingdom.„--It- the Royal dockyerda;at..present there .are..four „first,cless .battisollip%ibg 75,700 tons placement, - one. - - class annealed crifiSer 'of fourteen' t onsand Elf Millard tons;-two third,class -cruisers of-43M30 -toss, and • four submarine beats of. -1470 Up*. under •eonstritction-_-4.t private .yards 33 lsassels_ are _being., built._ for Abe British Inav3',. namely, two firsi:Ohiss battleships Of- a total: diiiPhicemenrOr 37S ton!; one :-ftrst-elass- arbroured cruiser of 17,230 .-tong, ' nine torpedo-boat destroyers of 8,655 tons, nine -flist,class torpodo.boats of 2,440 tons, and 12 submarines..of  TWO out of the 32 men under sentence of death at. Ekaterinoslav, Russia, havetornnutted suicide in prison by poison.. The .C-abinet, is said-ti be taking steps to obtain the- euminutation of 28 of the 6en' tepe4. A Student has been arrested on a charge of having left the botlib which exploded in the care -central a 'day or two ago. Ho 'ls 111 Isere old, and belongs -to the nobility.. Anothor_yolutg man on Wednesday left behind him a bomb in another cafe, the -popular- Cafe de Paris, on.the Nev. sky Prospect, but it did not explode. _ _  At 'Exetet on -Thesday-"James Lawreaeo was seutenned-.to m month,; imprisonment in tle second division for obtaining money -by-falseekretences. The prisoner had sent out_ thousands_ of circulars offering - the "Quintuple , Phonic" for 2s: 4d. The -"Phonic' turned out to be:a sheet of fire p,rinted_ttmei, mit the question was whether.the circular-was or was not.calettlated to grre the idea that it. Was Orind of phono. grn.nh: The Recorder (11r- F00ta,..K.C.), said-that the priStmer thought he had kept just '•Witliout the criminal law, but he was _ _ _ _  "•• • • " _ . 'Ur. J. • Chamberlain, in New Years mesSage..spanks f_the. likelihood_ of. a amoral Election in 1909. with. a obelus of Government, and urges Tariff Reformers to thke _stock of .th• .present.stuation and to ,docide __upon their action. :The people of the. country, he says, will expect an Sm'mediate . anewer to their demands, and wo. roust be ready to_ meet them as soon is the principle of Tariff Reform is finally adopted. by the electors. . • •• • •  The. Foreign Ministers at ,Pekin are not in agreement as to whether foreign interests are. technically involved . by the dismissal of Triarr-Shi,Kai, the progressive "riCeroy -of Peobili. The British, German. and American Ministers are said to regard the dismissal-as-tantamount-to an affront to the Powers. • •