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tor was proposed, so that the article shall read 

 that such pastor may be invested with "power 

 to authorize candidates, to ordain ministers, and 

 preside over a general body of the Church, this 

 power to be exercised only while acting as 

 presiding minister of an association or of the 

 General Convention, and the office and rank 

 of General Pastor to be also subject to such 

 limitations as to its continuance as the Associ- 

 ation may prescribe." This, and other propo- 

 sitions which were offered in modification of 

 it, can be acted upon after six months' notice. 



The Sabbath - School Association of this 

 Church, at its annual meeting, made provision 

 for the publication of graded manuals, and ap- 

 proved of the selections by the Graded Lesson 

 Committee of lessons for the year, drawn from 

 the Old and New Testament word and from 

 the little work of Swedenborg on "The Doc- 

 trine of Faith." 



British New Church Society. The sixty- seventh 

 meeting of the British New Church Society 

 was held in London, June 22. The Rev. Dr. 

 Tafel presided. The committee's report showed 

 that 2,620 volumes in English and 2,000 vol- 

 umes in Welsh had been printed during the 

 year ; while, during the same period, 3,226 vol- 

 umes in English, 30 volumes in Latin, 14 vol- 

 umes in French, 381 volumes in Welsh, 4 vol- 

 umes in German, and 22 volumes of the Swe- 

 denborgian philosophical works had been dis- 

 posed of. Five free libraries had received 

 grants. Clergymen and theological students 

 applying for aid had received 260 volumes. 

 The committee had undertaken to publish a 

 concordance to all the theological writings of 

 Swedenborg, in monthly parts, which publica- 

 tion will probably extend over five years. 



British Animal Conference. The British Annual 

 Conference of the New Church was held in 

 August, at Hey wood in Lancashire. The Rev. 

 R. R. Rodgers was chosen president. Dele- 

 gates were in attendance, with a fraternal 

 address, from the General Convention in the 

 United States. Reports on the Augmentation 

 fund and on the Italian mission were consid- 

 ered. A scheme respecting Sunday - school 

 examinations was discussed, and discretionary 

 power in the matter was left with the Sunday- 

 School Union. The Conference pensions to 

 widows and aged ministers were agreed to. 

 Notice was taken of the fact that the Rev. J. 

 F. Potts had completed his fourteen years of 

 arduous labor in the preparation of a concord- 

 ance of Swedenborg's theological works, and 

 that the book had been adopted by the Swe- 

 denborg Society for publication. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. Government. The death of 

 the late Governor, Sir John Hawley Glover, 

 revived the commission of Chief- Justice Sir 

 Frederick Carter as Administrator of the Gov- 

 ernment pending the appointment of a new 

 Governor. The Imperial Government appoint- 

 ed Sir Ambrose Shea, a native of the colony, 

 arid long distinguished as the leader of the 

 Roman Catholic party. The appointment pro- 



voked such hostility among the Protestants 

 that the Imperial Government canceled it 

 early in February, and appointed Sir G. Will- 

 iam des Voeux, K. 0. M. G., lately Governor 

 of the Fiji Islands, who arrived in the colony 

 on April 22. 



Finances. The total revenue for the year 

 1885 amounted to $1,009,222, showing a con- 

 siderable deficit as compared with 1884. The 

 total expenditure was $1,375,982. The con- 

 solidated and debenture debt of the colony on 

 Dec. 81, 1885, amounted to $2,149,597.52, and 

 the floating debt to $148,341.01. The esti- 

 mated expenditure for 1886 is $1,214,094, and 

 the estimated revenue $1,218,884. 



Industries. In the course of his speech from 

 the throne at the opening of the General As- 

 sembly on February 11, the Governor said: 

 "The results of our staple industries for the 

 last year were peculiarly unfavorable; not 

 only was the seal-fishery very deficient, but 

 its produce obtained only indifferent sales. 

 The catch of fish along the shore was also 

 below an average; while that of Labrador, 

 with cod and herring, though fairly success- 

 ful, was, to a certain extent, badly cured, 

 and meeting active competition in our accus- 

 tomed markets, was sold at unremunerative 

 prices. The fishery on the banks furnished 

 the only instance of a prosperous issue, and 

 it is satisfactory to observe that this enter- 

 prise gives cheering promise of becoming a 

 more and more reliable resource. Agriculture 

 yielded generally fair returns, the more im- 

 portant crops having been both sound and 

 abundant. Mining pursuits during the year 

 showed improvement. There was an increased 

 export of ores, and late market quotations en- 

 courage the hope of active operations in the 

 next season, The returns of native ship-build- 

 ing give a tonnage slightly in excess of that 

 of the preceding year." 



Aid for the Unemployed. On March 31 a mob 

 of unemployed workmen invaded the Parlia- 

 ment buildings while the House was sitting, 

 and some of them placed a flag on the table 

 of the House. The immediate cause of the 

 demonstration was the rejection by the As- 

 sembly of a number of resolutions moved by 

 Sir Ambrose Shea, having reference to the 

 prevailing destitution and want of employ- 

 ment for the people, and pledging the House 

 to the adoption of measures for the extension 

 of railways as a means of opening up the coun- 

 try, as well as of providing employment for 

 the people. Subsequently an act was passed 

 providing for the encouragement of agricult- 

 ure. This act, which had been foreshadowed 

 in the speech from the throne, provides for 

 the establishment of agricultural colonies at 

 certain places where the land is suitable. It 

 also grants aid to poor settlers, and arranges 

 for the removal to these settlements of people 

 who are unable to make a living by fishing 

 alone, and grants a bounty for each acre of 

 land brought under cultivation. A sum of 



