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NOTES AND NEWS comparatively recent growth, have acquired a woeful mastery over the minds of simple-headed Seths who are led astray by merely selfish exploiters with the Slogan of “Conformity with what our forefathers have done." The crying need of the time is to vigorously stop the wastage of our temple funds and charity monies in passing shows, transitory tamashas, and extravagant edibles, which are hardly eatable,
We trust that the worthy president will keep, maintain, and exercise his presidential rights, responsibility and authority, throughout the year, and will not for a moment abdicate the trust which the Digambar Jain Community of India has placed in his strong and worthy hands.
BISHOP C. W. LEADBEATER, a prominent theosophist and presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church of Sydney, died on March 1, at Perth at the age of 87, of heart disease.
Bishop Leadbeater was returning from India on board the Mooltan when he was taken ill and landed at Perth. His body is being cremated and the ashes sent to Sydney.
He led an honest religious life, and attained a good long age. There is not much difference between Jainism and Theosophy. Many a Theosophist would soon conform to Jainism, if it was rightly interpreted and explained to him.
At a general meeting of the Ajmere Municipal Board held on February 26, Mr. Hem Chander Sugani,
