The scheme for supplying the colonies with trained nurses, which, it is hoped, may develop into a Colonial Nursing Association, has received the direct commendation of Mr Chamberlain. Meanwhile it is interesting to know that a party of three lady nurses are about to leave Loudon for Shanghai, where their services have long been needed by the European residents. The matter has been arranged by the municipal council of that city, and it is hoped that in due course a self-supporting institute for nursing may be its outcome. The council guarantee first class passages out and three to five years' engagements, and salaries of £IOO a year each to the two junior nurses and £l5O to the head nurse. Australian institutions are recommended to note these terms. AIKHTT GERMAN WOMEN. The German Government has made a final effort to "bottle up" its women folk. The National Congress has adopted a civil code that puts the married woman, her children, and her property wholly uudtr the control of the husband, and yet one-fourth of the adult women in Germany are un married and five and one-half millions of women in that country earn their own bread. Putting with these faots another —viz., that one-fourth of the voters of Germany already belong to tho Social Democratic party, which places men and women on a basis of perfect equality—we see that sooner or later "something is likely to give way." This party has already forty seven members in the National Congress and is led by Liebknecht, a man of high character, now over seventy years of age and serving a term of three months' im prisonment because he ventured to state in the newspaper he edits that the Emperor did an injustice when he called the social movement in Germany "nothing but rot," Concerning the woman movement in Ger many, the Hon. Mrs Bertrand Russell (well known as the daughter of Mrs Hannah Whitall Smith) in a recent article to the 'Nineteenth Century'says: "In Berlin, a number of different associations having been dissolved one after the other, the women formed a small committee of five for pur poses of agitation, hoping that a committee could not be interpreted as an association. But the police thought differently, and, after searching the houses of the members of the committee for compromising documents, they had them all brought up and fined in court last. 