The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-10-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SLY., now Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Board of Education, to be Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in succession to Lord Fitsmaurice. Mr. Charles Philipp Trevelyan, M.P., now a Charity Commissioner, to succeed Mr. M'Kintion Wood as Parliamentary Under Secretary-at the- Board of Education. _ .  Mr. Victor Grayson, M.P., speaking in London on Sunday evening, made a rude attack on King • Edward. and also reviled Mr. John Burns. lie expressed his intention of forcing his way into the House of Commons, and asJvised all men to steal if _they could not buy food. •• NO • •  Mr. Snowden, lii P., speaking on Sunday to a meeting of Socialists, said the greatest regret of his life was that he had helped Mr. V. Grayson to get into Parliament which he so disgraced during the week. By his action he had degraded Socialism. lie had hardly attended the House of Commons since he was • elected, and there was no excuse tor his misconduct.  The Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the City Temple, on Tuesday addressed the members of the Manchester League of Progressive Thought and Social Service. U the spirit of Christ, he said, was expressed in its fulness in human character and society, poverty would be abolished. What was wanted was not the giving of doles, but such an uprising of the spirit of brotherhood and solidarity that no one would any longer desire to possess material privileges at the expense of others.  A number of unemployed attempted to rush the galleries of the Federal Parliament at Melbourne on Tuesday. They were ejected by the police after a prolonged struggle. • • • s  The Austro-Hungarian authorities twice forcibly detained and searched General Vukotiteb, the Envoy Extraordinary of the Prince of Montenegro, on his way to Belgrade on a special mission to King Peter. He was released on telegraphing to Count Aehrenthal. _ _ _  • • • .•  Miss Laura Geer Gibbs. aged seventeen, an heiress of great wealth, of New York, and the Rev. Charles William Kirkby, aged sixty-eight, SOU of the late Edward Kirkby, of Liverpool, were married at St. Margaret's Church. Westminster, on Tuesday afternoon.  • • •  A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday at 10, Downing-street when it is understood that questions relating to the Licensing Bill were discussed.  Mr. Bannister, of Norwich, who, because he had married his late wile's sister, was refused the communion by Canon Thompson, of Eaton, and the latter was ordered by the Dean of Arches to admit Mr. Bannister. This gentleman again presented kimself at early Communion on hlonday, but the curate, acting on instructions from his absent superior, 'again refused to administer the rite. ••• • .  Two terrible tragedies occurred M London during the week-end. On Saturday morning a Jewess named Esther Pragger, aged 17, was found strangled in bed, and later in the day the wife of a wheelltright named Grist murdered her little child and then committed suicide.  The fourth bon of the German Emperor, Prince August Wilhelm, was married, with quaint and picturesque ceremonial, in Berlin on Thursday. " • • • •  A terrible cloudburst, followed by floods, has occurred at Shawnee, Oklahoma. It M reported that 100 lives have been lost.  Miss Dove, head mistress of the Wycombe Abbey School for the Higher Education of Young Ladies, who has been nominated to the mayoral chair at High Wycombe. and has accepted the nomination, is a typical believer in women taking their share in municipal affairs. A year ago she was elected at the head of the poll, and became the first lady member of the Town Council.  S S • • At Bow-street Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Gladstone, on Wednesday, gave evidence in the prosecution of Mrs. Drummond, Mrs. Pankhurst, and Miss Pankhuret, and were closely questioned by the latter.