Talbot, successor to Sit Geo. Clarke as Governor of Victoria, very little was known until it was officially announced, Tt was proposed in Parliament to do away with the office of State Governor altogether, ty making the Chief Justice Lieut. Governor in perpetuity. However the new Governor will soon be here. Sir Reginald, who holds the rank of Major-General and the title K.C.B., has seen active service and distinguished himself in the Zulu war and the Egyptivn Expedition of 1882. He has had a most distinguished careoe both in England and abroad, "Elijah the Healer."
The Rev. J. A. Dowie, who also calls hinnself the General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, who has amassed fame and fortune in merica, has now returned to Australia and is showing in Sydney where, however, he is not taken very seriously. He hal a crowded meeting land night in the Town Hall but the papers rd nto farce. To-an interviewer Dowie any the proceedings oceasionnlly degenerate stated that he left Zion city in first-class order, with a population of 10,000 people and declared that Zionism is not fading.
ree more cities are to be erected. Dowie described as short and squat in figure with a fall white beard, clad in grey and wearing a light-coloured soft hat. At his meetings he wears a kind of surplice of blue, white, yellow, and purple.
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