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Thursday, 'May iB, 1911. WBm Zealand TABLET 893And he wheeled two luxurious easy-chairs to the fire-

•t- side arid pulled the old-world bell rope to summon the ser-• vant with tea. " • -

‘ I’ve an old chum staying here with me, mother, forthe past few days—Frank Lynam. At present he :—’

Dan O’Connor paused for a moment in puzzled sur-

Srise’;' for Ella Graham had started violently, . and haddirected almost a scared look at Mrs. O’Connor, who inher : turn had also started and flushed to the temples, asshe returned the girl’s startled gaze with mutely eloquentintensity. ,

‘ Frank has gone over to Gleudore to spend the after-noon with the McCarthys,’. Dan hurriedly resumed, in-stinctively feeling that whatever the situation might be itcould bo saved only by prompt action on his part; ‘or. Ishould say, perhaps, to see Delia McCarthy.’

- -‘Delia McCarthy t Mrs; O’Connor echoed sharply,and she directed a searching glance at her son. .

‘ Yes, mother—the daughter of your old acquaintance,Kate O’Meara. They are staying in a cottage near Glan-dore. Frank is a constant visitor, and I shouldn’t be sur-prised if he and Deliabut perhaps it is hardly fair of meto give him away like this!’ ,

He did not look at Elsie Graham as he spoke, but hefelt instinctivelyand he was still further puzzled and

the consciousness - that his words had increasedEained at the consciousness" that his words had increaseder embarrassment.

, ‘ I am very sorry these people are. so . close to us, Imust say!’ Mrs. : O’Connor observed, with a sudden grimseverity in her tone and look. ‘ However, it can, ofcourse, matter nothing to me. I shall not sec them duringray stay at Droumgarrif,’

<‘I wonder what on earth is delaying the tea?’ Dansaid at- this juncture, as he quickly rose and moved to-wards the door. He felt a decided objection to remainingin the room until Elsie Graham had got the better of thisdisturbing element, whatever the cause of it might be.‘ Pardon me for one moment. Perhaps the bell is out oforder.’

And Dan vanished from the room.A long look passed between Mrs. O’Connor and her

friend,, who was. now pale to the very lips.‘ Well,’ Elsie, what do you think of Frank Lynam—-

now?’ ;

‘Oh, do not mention his name, Mrs. O’Connor!’ thegirl answered almost passionately. ‘ Talk of anythingelse.’

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Well, my dear,’ as you’ve kindly made me your confi-dante and toid me all about the little matter, I feel privi-leged to touch on it just once again—and for the last time.From the, moment you told me the story, I believed thatthat young man was not worthy of your affection. I wishyou would make up your mind now to be off with the oldlove from this moment forward, my dear, and— and—’

She was about to say, it seemed, ‘and on with the new,’but she checked the words, as she heard Dan’s returningfootsteps, and waived her hand and nodded significantlytowards the door instead, just as her son reappeared.

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They were still over the tea table, when a carelesswhistle was heard in the hall, then a loose, swinging foot-step approaching the door.

Mrs. O’Connor directed a nervous glance at ElsieGraham.

That glance seemed to say:‘He is coming, Elsie. Courage, dear—courage!’Frank Lynam entered the drawing-room.‘ Oh, how do you do, Mrs. O’Connor,’ he said, in his

genial,' somewhat effusive way. ‘I am so glad to sec youagain. NX hope your recent illness ’ ■’r.”

The words died on his lips.He was staring with amazement into Elsie Graham’s

colorless face.‘Elsie!’ he gasped, almost incredulously— ‘Miss Gra-

ham I—can it be you ’ -

Elsie Graham bowed icily and murmured somethingor other, then turned hurriedly to Mrs. O’Connor. ■Yes, —yes,’ that lady said, rising all in a flutterof excitement. ‘We shall barely have time to dress fordinner.’

Not until Mrs. O’Connor and her companion had leftthe room did Frank Lynam seem to recover from the' shocksufficiently to grasp the true situation.

Then he turned hopelessly to his friend._■ ‘So this- is your mother’s wonderful discovery, Dan!

\ Good God, man! Elsie Graham is the only girl I’ve everr- loved in this world. I met her when I was in Scotland,

-*-•at a country house in Argyllshire. We spent a monththere with a large house party. But I was shy and diffi-dent) and she; I daresay, was equally shy, as well as proud,and she evidently misunderstood me, and I. daresay I mis-understood her.' _ -

‘ Another chap came by and paid her attentions, andI’d swear she submitted to them simply out of pique, forshe- very soon gave him his dismissal. And yet my con-founded diffidence, or whatever it was, tied my tongue.

Then a certain May Cameron,'the greatest flirt inArgyllshire, took me in hand (she was also a guest in thehouse), and although I didn’t really like a bone in thegirl’s body, I'was flattered and soothed by her attentions,and, I suppose, I played the part of her ardent admirer for

- a bit.

The end of it was that Elsie Graham\and I had aquarrel, and we parted in anger, arid I’ve never met hersince until this afternoon. And now look at my position!Did you see the bow she gave me? For Heayen’s sake,; oldchap, what did you tell them about Delia McCarthy and'myself?’ : V- “

‘ Whatever I told them, Frank, .make, our mind easyabout it. Your prospects shan’t be blighted for my selfishends,’ Dan O’Connor made answer,' with . genuine , good-nature and sympathy. ‘ You’ve done me a'good turn,lad, and I shall prove to you that I’m not an ungratefulcad before many days are over your head and mine.’

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‘No, mother, it is absolutely impossible,’ Dan O’Com-nor said to his mother a day or two later. Miss Grahamis everything that is charming, I allow, and . I sincerelyhope she will be married to the man she loves,, and will'behappy as the day is'long with him. lam not that for-tunate individual,, however; and, moreover, I have quiteother views as to my immediate future. 1 cannot tell youwhat they are just yet.’

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* . .Mrs. O’Connor was bitterly disappointed; but she did

not lose hope for all that. She tried to persuade herselfthat Elsie Graham’s irresistible charms would break downall possible barriers existing between Dan and herself.

‘I shall leave them together as much as possible,'thought this wily matchmaker. '

‘ When all is said, thereis no factor in such cases more potent than propinquity.’

In accordance with which dark resolve, Mrs. O’Connor;ordered the pony-trap that same afternoon and startedaway all-by herself for a drive. .

Frank Lynam and Elsie Graham had exchanged merelya few formal platitudes during the previous days, and not-withstanding Dan’s very unequivocal words of that morn-ing, Mrs. O’Connor persuaded herself to think that a satis-factory fulfilment of her heart’s dearest wish was stillpossible at least.

Mrs. O’Connor was by no means a skilful whip, and‘Bonnie’ was fresh and frisky this afternoon — a viciouslittle devil,’ Dan always characterised this pony.

And as Mrs. O’Connor turned a corner of the narrow,winding road, lo! , a tinkers’ caravan was suddenly revealed,at which Bonnie instantly took —and, what was moreto the point, took also to her heels and bolted, havingsucceeded in getting the bit firmly between her teeth.

Poor Mrs, O’Connor uttered shriek after shriek in herterror, and was on the point, it seemed, of throwing herselfout of the flying vehicle, when a tall, graceful, sweet-facedgirl suddenly leaped from the high bank upon the road,seized the terrified pony, and held her firmly in check. .

‘I fear the shock has been too much for you,’ the girlsaid, in a low, musical voice, that won the listener’s heartat once. ‘But pray make your mind perfectly easy now’.All danger is over,’ r -.f ~

Just then a farm boy came along the road, and Mrs.O’Connor’s rescuer handed over the pony to his charge, asshe herself took the half-faintingwoman in her arras andcarried her tenderly to the mossy bank beside the road.

‘lf you rest here for a few' minutes you will be allright again,’ the girl whispered. f

- Then I will tell that boyto drive you safely home.’

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‘ The sweetest girl I’ve ever seen in -11 my life, Dan!’Mrs. O’Connor enthusiastically described her benefactress,when an hour later she was giving her son an account ofher afternoon’s adventure. ‘ I shall never, never forgether goodness to me. Positively, Dan, she saved my life—and yet she refused to tell me her name when I askedher.’

Just then there was a knock at the door of the drawing-room, and a servant entered with a pencilled note fromElsie Graham to Mrs. O’Connor. •

‘Miss. Graham came to the pantry window this mo-ment, ma’am, and handed this to me,’ the girl said. ‘Her-self an'. Mr. Lynam were wr alking together in the moon-light.’

Mrs. O’Connor, who was still trembling all over fromthe effects of the- shock she had sustained that afternoon,opened the note and read as follows:

T am as happy as the day is long, dear Mrs. O’Con-nor. Frank and I met accidentally in the grounds anhour and a half ago, and all is explained and I’ve pro-mised to be his wife in March.’

‘ I now find I had totally wronged trim that time inArgyllshire. It was all a stupid misunderstanding. Oh,dearest Mrs. O’Connor, I can never, never, never thankyou sufficiently for persuading me to accompany you toDroumgarrif !’ ■ ,

‘Just think of that, Dan!’ Mrs. -O’Connor said, whenshe had read this note aloud. And I was under theimpressionjust as you were—-that Frank Lynam was - flirt-ing with that odious Delia McCarthy!’ - /

‘ “That odious Delia McCarthy” is my fiancee', mother-and your rescuer this afternoon,’ Dan O’Connor said, andhe took his mother into his strong arms and kissed her.‘ Surely the sweetest girl you have ever seen in all yourlife is likely to appeal to you, j mother dear, as a worthybride for your most unworthy son !’ ■ =*

Mrs. O’Connor returned to town on the'following day.She had neither refused nor consented to her son’s , eager

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‘I shall think it all over, Dan, and let you know aboutit in my next letter,’ was the utmost concession Dan foundit possible to extort. . *

‘And, sure enough, in Mrs. O’Connor’s next letter shedid let Dan ‘know,about it,’ and a very humiliating revela-tion the letter contained. , 1‘I have something most painful— me at least—totell yon, Dan. Your Aunt Alice got a bad turn last night,and she believed she was dying—though she is much betterto-day—and she confessed to me that she herself had writ-ten that anonymous letter to Robert O’Connor, who wasafterwards your; father,, eight-and-twonty years ago—tholetter which I had blamed Kate O’Meara for writing!

‘“I was secretly 'in love with Robert myse’f ” Aliceconfided to me last night." ( i And I was . furiously jealousof you,- Lucy. I really do not think I was quite respon-sible for my act. I must have been off my head for thetime being. And when you suspected Kate O’Meara ofhaving written the letter I had- not the courage to confessthe truth.” .'V?,

How am I ever to obtain dear Kate’s forgiveness,Dan, for having so cruelly wronged her all these years? 1intend to fall down on my knees at her feet, when I seeher, and tell her how truly remorseful I am.’

Dan took his -mother’s letter over to the cottage thatday,s and placed it in Mrs. McCarthy’s hands.,

‘This is no surprise to me, Dan,’ Delia’s mother said.‘ I knew— at least strongly suspected at the time, thatAlice had written that letter ;-but knowing that Lucy was*so attached to her sister, I kept my suspicion to myself - inorder to spare Lucy the pain and humiliation of knowingthe truth. “ Better that she should believe me to be hersecret enemy,” I decided, than to be forced to lose faithin the sister she loves so ranch.”

‘So I’ve held my tongue, Dan, from that day to thisBut now I shall at once write to your dear mother, forwhom my affection has never altered for a moment!’

Dan gave a dinner party on St. Patrick’s Night, towhich he invited Mrs. McCarthy and Delia.

Frank Lynam was again staying at Droumgarrif.And when Mrs. McCarthy entered the drawing-room

Dan’s mother came rapidly forward— and Elsie Grahamhad arrived from Dublin that day—and a moment later thetwo old friends were sobbing in each other’s arms.

And while the attention of their elders was thus diver-ted, the four young people were by no means idle, you mayrest assured.

They had rapidly divided into twos, and were exchang-ing confidences in agitated whispers as to their approachingmarriage-day— the four were to be wedded egi the sameday -and in the same church— very Jay week, indeed,should they all live to see it.—Weekly Freeman.

JERRY'S INVESTMENT/>Jerry Dodson took a buck-skin purse from the pocketof his overalls, and carefully counted its contents intohis horny hand. Ten golden twenties shone brightly inthe sunlight. ' .V| Jerry looked at them with a hard, bitter- feeling athis: young heart. Those twenties meant six. years of hardwork; six years of getting up at four o'clock in the morn-ing, of driving mule-teams, walking behind a harrow overrough clods, and sweltering long days on a harvester. ;/ :

The money for his work ever since he was sixteen, andless than what one year's wages should have come to. .

He had tried to be so saving,' never drawing a cent,save, for clothes or going to town Saturday night with therest of the boys, for a good time.

He had built such hopes on that accumulating money;he meant to buy a team and rent a piece of land, and thisfall" lie had planned to do it. 'There was the Websterplacegrain-land and pasture, with a bit of alfalfaeverything for a hard-working man to succeed, and he hadthe?:first chance for it, too, but now he must go on beingnothing but a hired man after all.'

"Colonel McClatchy had failed—his colonel, whom hebelieved to be as good as a bank.

It was hard to believe it, looking over the fine fieldsof the great ranch and the almost palatial home. Yet,it was all gone for mortgages and debts, and the three hun-dred dollars was Jerry's share of the wreck. There was abitterness in his heart as he looked at the great; house,'with its b r*autiful lawns, flowers, and orchards looking asbright in the sunlight as if no blighting ruin had come..f;.">J':They' always had everything,' thought Jerry resent-fully; c money, clothes, horses, carriages, and company,and plenty to travel round every place. What businesshad they going on spending "other folks' money they'dworked hard for? They never worked—just went alonghaving a good time, though,' he added, 'I won't say butwhat the old man's acted square; he's turned over every-thing. What's the use of trying to save anything? Why"shouldn't I have a good time?and I will! I'll go to-thecity and trot it 'high until every red cent of this moneyis gone; that I will.'

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He thrust the bag back into his pocket and'looked overthe-pasture, his young face set in lines of determination.

Suddenly a quick, alert look came into his eyes hegazed intently for a few minutes.

‘I wonder what’s the matter with that black ' cowover by the pond,’ he thought; - ‘ she’s acting queer, awayoff that way from the others. Like as not'that-calf of .hersis "in trouble, pesky thing. I’ll have to go and see,’ andJerry started with his long - swinging stride across thegrassy slough-land, for an* animal never appealed to himin vain. "

v-' - ■As he walked along, the Colonel’s favorite mare liftedher head with a whinny. Jerry 'patted- her, and wonderedwho would buy the horse; then almost unconsciously afeeling of pity stole into his heart for the Colonel Himself.What must this ruin be to the old man ! 'He thought howgenerous and good he had always been, with his purse everopen to those who needed his aid* and now to lose every-thing. . ’ ' ‘ ’; ">

‘I declare ’tis rough, ’thought Jerry, * plagucy rough!But the old man’s been too careless,’ he continued, • hisresentment still stirring; but, then, he’s old. If he weretwenty years younger I’ll bet he’d get it all back. -.There’sthe women folks, too. I guess, after all, there’s a goodmany ,in a worse boat than me.’ .

Jerry found that the little calf had gone along a sheeptrack on the edge of the pond until the bank rose steeply.Here it stopped and lowed while the cow-mother lowedabove, him. Jerry turned the small animal, thinking atthe same time that it was the ; biggest fool-calf he had everseen. ' •

As he turned leisurely to walk back, he hoard a strangesound, and paused to listen, then he walked quickly towarda clump of willows not far from the pond. He pushed inamong them, then stopped in embarrassment.

1 Why—why—Miss Jeannie,’ he -stammered, ‘w —

what’s the—matter?’ _ ■-V:' -•••••;.•

•A young girl was lying on the soft salt grass, sobbing

as if her heart would break. She looked up, startled ‘ Oh,Jerry!’ she cried.¥y Anybody been a misusing- you, Miss Jeannie ?’.-■ hocried, his hard hands involuntarily clinching. If - theyhave, it’s me that will have a settling.’• * . • Z

He looked so fierce that Jeannie McClatchy smiled awan smile. . ' ,

‘No,’ she said, ‘ it’s only my foolishness. There, I’mbetter now. It’s only that papa has to sell my piano, andoh, it’s so hard to give it up.’ ~ ~:

Her chin quivered again, while Jerry looked as if somefresh calamity had come to him.;' .. ,: -

Ob, come now,’ said, ‘ it can’t be so bad as that;your papa’ll fix it somehow.’ .. v

The girl shook her head. ‘No,’ she said, ‘he’s goingto sell everything that will bring money.

... I’d been .think-ing I might give music lessons and help him. tie’s goingto rent the Webster place, and begin over right here.’ s

Jerry could hardly speak for astonishment. TheColonel living where he had planned to live! Miss Jeannie,too-1 • ... .. ;■ v ■*

, ‘Well, well,’ he said, for want of something better,; that’s all-fired'rough!’

‘lf you only knew how badly papa feels. It has nearlykilled him. You see, Jerry, in the beginning he signedsome notes for a friend and had to pay them, then somespeculations failed, and hard years came, and now it : sthis . ‘5-

-‘.Yes,’ said Jerry, ‘ it’s harder on the Colonel thananybody else. Now cheer up, Miss Jeannie, do cheer up.’

‘l’m better now. I shan’t make a baby of myselfagain. I’ve had my little weep, and now I’m going to babrave like papa’s daughter ought to.’ . ,

It was the day of the McClatchv auction. The greathouse was full to overflowing. People felt the velvet car-pets and tried the springs of the satin chairs. Jerrywas out in the hall talking crops. He had stood - over thesale of every colt and calf on the place, for two days, andnow his keen ears caught every word the auctioneer; saidin the parlor ‘I offer vou now this piano, ladies andgentlemen. Look ,at it well, note the make, see, polish,listen to the tone,’ and he ran Ins fingers rapidly over thekeyboard, where so often Miss Jeannie played.

‘Let me tell you, the chance to get a piano like thischeap comes not twice in a lifetime. Do I hear a bid?’

‘Fifty dollars,’., said a stout farmer. . ,‘Seventy-five,’ called ; a v voice from the doorway,nervously. .

Then it went up by fives and tons to one hundred andforty.The auctioneer used more olnouence. The stout' far-

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Oh. Jerrv,’ said Jeannie when she met him on vtheporch, ‘I bad rather you had it than -anybody else. Itwas so good of you.’ . •, ',‘I don’t want it.’ answered Jerry stoutly. : ‘ :< It’syours. I’m thinking the Colonel and I will want a-Uttlemusic, when we come in tired of evenings from working

on the Webster place. I’ve got the mare, too, MissJeannie, and the best of-the voting cattle, and your pa williust start ever again, with this pair otystout hands to helphim.’

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(From our own correspondent.), His Grace Archbishop Redwood, accompanied by the

Rev. Father Holley, S.M. (the recently appointed parishpriest ,of Wanganui) and the Rev. Father Hickson, S.M.(Wellington), arrived here on Saturday afternoon, May6. On Sunday morning after the last Mass his Grace theArchbishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmationto 175 candidates at St. Mary’s Church, there being avery large congregation.

. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone < of thenew’ convent, which will be one of the finest buildings inthe North Island, was performed in the afternoon, hisGrace; the Archbishop officiating. hTe weather was beau-tifully fine, and there was a very large attendance of thepublic, about 2000 being present. On the platform werethe Archbishop, Rev. Fathers Holley, Hickson, Barra,Moloney, and Vibaud, Mr. J. T. Hogan, M.P., and hisWorship the Mayor (Mr. C. E. Mackay). Apologies werereceived for the absence of Very Rev. Dean Regnault (Pro-vincial of the Marist Order) and Very Rev. Father O’Shea,S.M*., V.G., Mr. RAW. Smith, M.P., and Mr. SydneyJohnston.

The actual ceremony was very short, the tablet beingsimply lowered into position and»blessed by the Archbishop,who afterwards delivered an interesting address. The tabletbore the following inscription f—‘ A.M.D.G.—This stonewas solemnly blessed and duly laid by his Grace the MostRev. Francis Redwood, S.M., D.D., Archbishop of Welling-ton and Metropolitan, May 7, 1911. John L. Swan,M.R.S.A., architect, ’Wellington; builders: Campbell andBurke, Wellington.’

'Archbishop Redwood said it wr as with great pleasurehe was present to solemnly bless and truly lay the stoneof this splendid building, which was being erected in honorof the Order of St. Joseph, the patron of this teachingOrder. He expressed gratitude to the Mayor and themember for the district for their attendance. That daymarked an era in the history of the Order of St. Joseph.Many old residents of Wanganui would remember thesmall beginning of the Order in Wanganui, and all wouldknow their great work, which had progressed and grownfrom the acorn to the mighty tree, whose branches spreadthroughout all parts of the diocese. When these buildingswere finished the Sisters would have a home to accommo-date a large number of boarders, who would come from allparts of the diocese, as well as a place for the novices whomthey would train for their sublime vocation. Speakingspecially to the Catholics, but at the same time to thepublic generally," Archbishop Redwood said: 1 There isnothing so important as a good solid Christian education forthe rising generation. No matter what else you give them,if that is missing there is a great gap in their education.The faculties that are to be developed are ignored, and thething for which they were created by tho Supreme Beingis lost. If this world were the only world it would seemthat secular education would meet all requirements. Butwe are here only for a short time. Our home is in eter-nity, and we are to prepare ourselves for that eternity,and therefore must always have that last end in view inall we undertake. The object of people now seems to beto tear along at a mighty speed somewhere. But where?Going ahead somewhere is not progress. Is it progressif you are going in the wrong way? Is it progress if youare forgetting the end for which the Creator intended you?It is progress downhill. The Catholic Church knows that,and she will therefore always have complete education forher youth. They must be trained mentally, physically,and morally. They require, therefore, the great elementof religion— a religion imparted in an atmosphere of reli-gion, so that they breathe it in through every pore, theyimbibe it and are saturated with it, so that they will beable to stem the influences that are tending against reli-gion Catholic means universal. The Catholic Churchwants to be Catholic in education. She wants all thefaculties of the child developed harmoniously in order thatthere may grow’ the perfect man and woman.’ His Gracethen concluded by remarking that the new conventWouldbe a magnificent building, which, standing on a hill, wouldbe a landmark and an ornament to the countryside.

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Rev. Father Holley said that in order to give an ideaof the magnitude of the building, and to remove some,erroneous impressions regarding the financing of this greatundertaking, it would be interesting for the public toknow that tho actual contract price was £17,613, which,with extras, would make £17,894. To that must be addedthe fees of the architect and clerk of works, bringing theprice up to £18,894. Other charges, including £3OOO-forthe site, brought the total to £22.000. The Churchauthorities had been able to borrow £19,000 from thePublic Trustee, so that they were £3OOO short, without con-sidering furnishing, laying out the grounds, etc. The in-terest amounted to £lB per week, or £990 a year. Ittherefore behoved all present who were in sympathy withthe work to give according to their means or, at least, topromise what they thought they would in a reasonable timebe able to pay.

.[The priests and a,number of gentlemen then made a,collection, with the result thata the handsome amount of£l5B was realised. :~,-._

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After addresses by the Mayor and Mr. J. T. Hogan,M.P., his Grace thanked the people for their ; attendance,and the proceedings terminated. . 7 .-.,.;.■;; .^;.,:-;;-In the evening his Grace preached in St. Mary's Churchto a crowded congregation on, the feast of the day, the'Patronage of St. Joseph.'. Subsequently his Grace form-ally installed Rev. : Father Holley as the parish priest ofWanganui. ..--; .-,■■':■■: : ..;-,_,-. \. r: -~ -=',..■ "-.,.,«.!;. '.";•A very handsome donation of £IOOO has been made byMr. Sydney Johnston, of Takapau, Hawke's Bay, to thelocal community of St. Joseph, towards the cost of the erec-tion of the new convent. _,

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(From our own correspondent.)May 7. .ATo-day being the first Sunday there was'Exposition ofthe Blessed Sacrament after the 11 o’clock Mass. The -fRev. Father Costello preached to a crowded congregationin the evening on the Patronage of St. Joseph, after which £;

followed the usual procession of the Blessed Sacrament.Mr. W. G. Tabor, who has been absent from Palmer-ston North for some time, has accepted an importantposition with Messrs. Buick and Young, and I am pleased

to say that his vocal services will be again given to St.Patrick’s which, under the conductorship of Rev. 'Father Kehoe, with Madame.Parry as organist, is attain-ing a state of great efficiency.

The first round of the inter-society euchre tournamentwas won by the H.A.C.B. Society, who beat their opponentsby 45 to 27.

The sixth annual concert of the pupils of St. Mary’s VConvent, held before a crowded audience in the Opera S'House on Wednesday, May 3, will be remem- A'bered as having eclipsed the best of its pre-decessars by a substantial margin. There were present Ahis Grace the Archbishop of Wellington, and Rev. Fathers ’ ACostello, Kehoe, and Dore. The entertainment gave evi-deuce of the very high standard of tuition given by theSisters, while the addition of a trio of talented young-vocalists from the Wellington Convent was an admirableinnovation, and lifted the concert to a higher level thanhad before been reached. Appearing first in a Shakes-pearian trio with her fellow-pupils, the Misses Segrief,Miss McEnroe gave the audience some indication of her Vpowers, but they were hardly prepared for the ;revelationthat followed in the rendering of the intricate vocal solo,Carnivale de Venezia,’ wherein the young singer had fullopportunity of displaying her talent. As an encore, Miss -AMcEnroe gave the evergreen Irish air, ‘Believe me, if all" ■those endearing young charms,’ in quite a delightful man-ner. Miss Agnes Segrief, another of the Wellingtonians,gave an intelligent and satisfying rendering of Gounod’s'‘ Serenade,’ to which was given the added charm of aviolin obligato by Miss Louise Croucher. The numberwas one of the evening’s gems, and in response to a recallMiss Segrief made a marked impression by her exceptionalrendering of another of Ireland’s beautiful airs, ‘ Theharp that once.’ Together, the Misses McEnroe and Se-grief secured the only double encore of the evening, theirbeautiful rendering of Blumenthal’s ‘Venetian boat song.’Of the other vocalists, Mrs. Broad again proved her popu-larity with Palmerston audiences by being heartily en- ■cored for a charming rendering of Cox’s ‘ The lonely road,’ Athe recall item being Mallinson’s ‘ Four by the clock,’ very .

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tastefully rendered. Miss Vera Cooper was also encoredfor the way in which she negotiated the extremely difficultproblems set in the Meyerbeer scena, ‘Roberto, oh tu che ~Aadoro. Part singing is always a welcome . feature of theconvent concerts, and the three items given by the pupilswere all evidence, of careful training. Among the instru-mental numbers, Miss Louise Croucher’s violin solo, of Acourse, took pride of place. It goes without saying thata recall was demanded. Miss Minna Ward, who, was till - aquite recently a frequent performer at local concerts, made -

a welcome reappearance in a pianoforte solo. her number Abeing a charmingly rendered Study in D flat ’by Liszt, "Sfor which the audience demanded an encore. The remain-der of the programme was devoted to pianoforte items bythe advanced pupils of the convent. The overture was aduet (two pianos) by the Misses Rainbow, Carey, Hill, and ; ARichter which was excellently given. There was a finely -wrendered duo, Chopin’s ‘ Rondo in C,’ by two well known Apianists Misses Verar Graham and Violet Kendall.- and the --'j-Tannhanser ’ overture on three pianos bv the Misses M. -A ;

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TEXT BOOKS ON EDUCATION.

In addition to the subjoined letter, we have also re-ceived a communication from a leading religious educa-tional institution very strongly recommending as a suitabletest-book for our inquiring student a volume entitledChristian Pedagogy, by Rev. P. A. Ilalpin, Professor ofMental Philosophy, St. Angela’s College, New Rochelle,N.Y., published by Joseph F. Wagner, 9 Barclay street,New York. The price is 6s; and we note that the bookhas been very favorably reviewed by English and AmericanCatholic papers. As there may be a number of Catholicstudents throughout the Dominion who are interested inthe question we propose to give publicity in our columnsto all information received on the subject.

TO THE EDITOR.Sir,—In one of the issues of your paper you were

writing about different works on the • history ofeducation. What about Essays on Education, or ratherEssays Educational, by Brother Azarias, of the Brothersof the Christian Schools (William H. Young and Co., 63Barclay street, New York). I have not .read the book, butthe headings of the chapters are—

! Cloistral Schools,’ ‘ThePalatine School,’ ‘Mediaeval University Life,’ ‘ Univer-sity Colleges: their Origin and their Methods,’ ‘ThePrimary School in the Midddle Ages,’ ‘ The SimultaneousMethod in Teaching,’ ‘Beginnings of the Normal School,’‘ M. Gabriel Compayre as an Historian of Pedagogy.’There is also a book by Dr. Walsh, The XIII. Century theGreatest of All Centuries. It also touches a good dealon the education question.—l am, etc.,

H. FITZGERALD.P.S.—Brother Azarias, in Essays Educational , p. 281.,

gives a list of works (written in English, or translated intoEnglish) on Pedagogy—-

(l) Christian Schools and Scholars, by a DominicanNun, Theodosia Drane. Published in two volumes byLongmans, Green, and Co., London. It is charmingly

written, and is well calculated to give an exalted idea ofthe work of the Church in the education of Europe. Butit is mainly literary rather than pedagogical.

(2) The Life of Bernard Overberg, translated from theGerman of Krabbe by the humble Passionist, the Hon. andRev. George Spencer (Derby, Richardson and Son, 1844).There is a Protestant version, prepared by Schubert, whosimply re-wrote Krabbe’s book, omitting the Catholic por-tions. This also has been translated.'Overberg (1754-1826)was a devoted priest, rector of the Seminary of Munsterand head of the Normal School. He was one of the greatesteducators of the day. : Father Spencer’s life is an en-nobling volume, calculated to fire every' teacher with loveand zeal for the education of youth. It is out of print!

(3) The Spirit and Scope of Education. It is a trans-lation from the German of Dr. Stapf. It is written in thespirit and according to the noble ideal that Overberg heldof the teacher’s mission. It is highly philosophical in . itstreatment of the relations of teacher and pupil. Its psy-chological analysis is natural and simple, and above all it isimbued with a truly Catholic tone. But the book- is alsoout of print.

(4) Rosmini left in a fragmentary state the first partof a great work on education. This volume has been faith-fully translated; for this we may thank a Protestant ladyand a Protestant publishing house (Itosmini’s Method inEducation, by Mrs. Wm. Grey, Boston, D. C. Heath andCo., 1887). U

(5) Wo have also an English version of the first partof Dupanloup’s work on education. It is called TheChild, and though lacking the depth of Rosmini’s workon the same subject, is none the less suggestive reading(Catholic Publication Society, New York). Ir(6) For history of methods Translation of Stockl’sLehrbuch dev Geschichte der Pedagogik. Now that Dr.Stockl is becoming better known to English readers throughthe elegant translation that Father Finlay, of Dublin, isgiving them of his History of Philosophy, this ~supplem-entary work should be all the more welcome.

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Current TopicsA Real Cure for Insomnia

Here is a genuine cure for —particularly forthe form of insomnia caused by worry. The greater theworry, the more efficacious this remedy is indeed, if themental trouble be really great, it is, to the properly trainedmind, the natural and almost the only way of relief. Itcomes,' too, endorsed by high medical authority. It -:snothing more nor less than the practice of Christian prayer.It is thus seriously and earnestly recommended, on scientificand psychological grounds, by Dr. Samuel McComb, in anarticle entitled The Cure of Insomnia’ in Everybody'sMagazine for February last. ‘To the man, then,’- says thiswriter, * whose sleep is banished by worry, I would say atall costs get some kind of faith and liveup to it. . . .And here I wish to lay emphasis upon the power of prayerto produce sleep. Very' notable are the words which adistinguished English expert in mental disorders addresseda few years ago to the British Association: “As an alienist,I would state that of all the hygienic measures to counter-act disturbed sleep, depression of spirits and all the miser-able sequels of a distressed mind, I would undoubtedly givethe first place to the habit of prayer.” From a psycholo-gical point of view we can see that in prayer there is a’healing powder because it enables us to escape from ournarrow”, bounded, and despairing self and lose ourselves ina larger, more confident, more joyous self, and because, likeall confession, it acts as a moral cathartic and cleanses theheart of the perilous stuff that weighs upon it.’ After all,this is nothing more than a scientific endorsement of thosemost precious words of Scripture: ‘Be not solicitous ’—

‘ Casting all your care upon Him, for He hath care of you.’

; Socialism in New Zealand: When we drew attention, a week or two ago, to the

. fact that scientific Socialism was something more than aneconomic system, and that it was based on a materialisticand essentially non-religious view of life, we had little

■idea that the anti-religious. phase of the movement hadmade such strides in the Dominion as we now' find to be

. the case. For some years the only recognised Socialistpublication in New Zealand—so far as we know —was asmall but clean and well-edited 'sheet, entitled the Common-weal. This has apparently been merged into a papercalled the Maordand Worker—which announces itself as‘ A Journal of Industrial Unionism, Socialism, andPolitics.’ The Worker has now developed -’nto a weekly;

; and has been adopted as the official organ of the New■ Zealand Federation of Labor. We have had sent to us

a copy of the paper’s first issue as a weekly; and it waswith deep regret that we notice that the new mouthpiece

. of Labor in New' Zealand is spotted, as with a rash, with;■ anti-religious sentiments. We give a number of sample-paragraphs. They arc all taken from a single —that- of May 5.

h ‘ The means of getting rid of sectarianism is by killingits manufactories.’

‘ The world will not be saved by stained-glass saints.’‘ Rev. R. J. Campbell : ‘ The Church had nothing to

do with getting men into Heaven, but with getting Heaveninto men.” Well put, Campbell.’

<. ‘ I cannot think there is® a Hell; The merciful God made to frizzy oneh I only wish for one brief spell

A place as hotFor the whole blessed lot

h Of the humbugs who tell us there is one.’..., ‘Try these: A penny Worker, a Debs pamphlet, a six-penny 11 P.A. reprint. Recommend them with a fraternalword.’ [II.P.A. means, of, course, the Rationalist Press Asso-ciation,"-which is issuing a ‘steady stream of publicationsthe oneJ object of which is the destruction of Christianity];

■f ‘ There is only one saviour for the w orkingclassworkingclass themselves. There is only one gospel of sal-

ivation for them—Socialism.’% ‘ When you meet a man or woman bearing upon his orher forehead the Iron Thumb of . Orthodoxy pass him oi-•lier one of the R.P.A. sixplennies.>» The thumb will shiver,sits hold weaken. Two “sixpennies” and a Blatchfordvol. on determinism and the Thumb will shrivel into space.(R.P.A. literature is fated to destroy superstition. Push it.

‘Hats off to Portugal, once again. Its Church Dis-establishment Bill is the beginning of the end of ecclesias-tical oppression.’

We have discussed Socialism more than once withseveral of the less violent and more reputable of the NewZealand leaders; andv they have;assured us that the move-ment is a purely economic one, and has nothing to do withany man’s religious : views. Fairly extensive reading onthe subject has satisfied us that on this point our? friendsare wrong. The Maoriland' Worker is, as we have said,the official organ of the N7Z.-Federation of Labor, whoseobjects are, according to P. Ar Hickey’s exposition of themin the May issue, of the Worker, frankly and avowedly‘revolutionary Socialism.’ If our economic friends areright, what are such utterances as the above doing in theofficial organ of New' Zealand Socialism? If, on the otherhand, the contention advanced in our leading columns afortnight ago. is correct, and the above-quoted paragraphsfaithfully reflect the sentiments...actually prevailing in ad-vanced Labor circles in the Dominion, it is evident thatthe N.Z. Federation of Labor is an excellent organisationfor Catholic workers to keep away from, k

More TercentenarySo far as we know, there is nothing in the history or

special doctrines of Methodism to explain why membersof that body should be more ‘ wowserish ’ and ‘ anti-Romethan members of other Protestant denominations ; ; but thefact remains that so they are. About a year ago theMethodists, ’ who had full'* control of a special Methodistpage in the Christian Outlook, receded from that arrange-ment, and now publish (in Christchurch) a. fortnightlypaper of their own, the N.Z. Methodist Times. ‘ In thecurrent issue of this periodical, an ill-mannered and ill-informed contributor, who drives a futile pen over thesignature of""- Vigilans,’ makes some, uncouth.remarks aboutboth Anglicans and Catholics in connection with the recenttercentenary celebrations, - ‘“Where,” he asks, standsthe Church of Rome in relation to this English Bible Ter-centenary?” That is a question that many will ask as theysec v that in all these, commemoration services the repre-sentatives of the Romish Church are conspicuous by theirabsence.’ The Catholic Church has had the Bible rightdown the centuries, and was its custodian and preserverin the dark days of persecution before Methodism wasdreamed of. The year 1611 did not give the Bible to theCatholic Churchwhich already had it—and for her theyear 1911 holds no Bible centenary of any kind; and the‘ question that many will ask,’ if they read the MethodistTimes, is how any one, endowed with ordinary . normalthinking apparatus, could write the silly stuff above quoted.

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‘ The fact it,’ continues this pundit, ‘ that the historyof the English Bible is anything but flattering to the his-tory and principles of the Church of Rome. If thatChurch could have had its way, there would have been noEnglish Bible in the hands of the English-speaking peopleto-day. When in one of our New Zealand cities arrange-ments were being made for a public meeting in connectionwith the Bible Tercentenary, representatives of the Ang-lican Church were, as a matter of course, invited to takepart. j Their spokesman said they would do so, but onlyon oho condition, and that was that nothing deprecatoryshould be said concerning the Roman Catholic Church.“ If,” said he, “ one word is spoken reflecting on thatChurch, I and all the other Anglican clergymen presentwill at once walk off the platform.” That would mean,of course, that at a Bible Tercentenary meeting the storyof “How we got our Bible” could not bo told; for- totell that story without reflecting on the Romish Churchis simply impossible. Needless to say, the Bible Ter-centenary celebrations in the city referred to had to goforward - without the presence and aid of these hyper-sensitive Anglicans. Chillingworth’s axiom, “The Bible,and the Bible alone, is the religion of Protestants,” ; hastoo much truth in it for any' set of religionists whosetheories of Church order compel them to commit the fatalmistake of making tradition of equal authority with theHoly Scriptures. Not only will this Bible Tercentenarybring out some of the harshest features of the Church ofRome, it will servo also to show afresh the untenablenessof the position occupied by the High Church Party in the

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Thursday, May 18, I9li. IMF ZEALAND TABLIf 903THE CHURCH AND THE BIBLE

EDITIONS OF THE SCRIPTURE IN VERNACULARBy William Canon Barry, D.D.

Lying before me is a page in facsimile of the firstbook ever printed from movable types. The book itselfbears no date, but it was created, as we may truly 'say,by Gutenberg at Mayence in Germany, and sent out beforethe year 1456. What, then, was this first printed book?It is known as the ‘forty-two line,’ or the Mazarin Bible;and it is nothing else than the Latin Vulgate, the officialtext of Holy Scripture approved by the Roman Church,and used by Catholics for at least nine hundred years pre-vious to its appearance as the beginning of' printed litera-ture. All educated persons in the fifteenth century readLatin as a matter of course. A printed Latin Bible was,therefore, the- most public and ready to hand of all formsin which the Sacred Scriptures could bo given. So soonas movable types were invented, the Church hastened toput within reach of her children the treasures of HolyWrit in this new shape. The first volume printed with adate is the Latin Book of Psalms, at Mayence, 1457. Thefirst whole Bible dated comes from the .same city, 1462.Venetian presses began their work on Scripture in 1475,and sent out twenty-two complete editions of the Vulgatein not many years. Half a dozen largo, or folio, editionswere published before a single Latin classic had been com-mitted to the printers’ hands. By the year 1500 no fewerthan ninety-eight distinct and full editions of the Church’sBible in its Latin text had come forth, besides twelveothers which contained the Glossa Ordinaria, or the Pos-tils of Lyranus.’

Hebrew and Greek Originals.' But what of translations which those might read to

whom Latin was either an unknown or a difficult tongue?I will deal with them in a moment. First, however, takenote that Church authorities welcomed or even them-selves brought out editions of Holy Writ in the originalHebrew and Greek, with which learned men might com-pare the Latin. Thus from 1477 onwards the wholeHebrew text was printed by Italian Jews; and in 1517the Rabbinic Bible, issued in four volumes at Venice, wasdedicated by its editor, Felix Pratensis, to Pope Leo X.The famous Greek text, called the Septuagint, was prin-ted in his remarkable Polyglot by Cardinal Ximenes in1514; but the first published Greek New Testament is dueto Erasmus; a priest, and appeared in 1517. Catholicecclesiastics were evidently not afraid of scholarship asregards the inspired volumes, on which they spent theirzeal, their resources, and their labor.

First Printed German Texts.Now let ns look at what was done fc* the people atlarge. The name which casts a shadow upon this enquiry,as we all know, is that of Luther. Luther was horn in1483, and died in 1546. Take, then, the Fatherland, towhich, as the story once went, this man first gave a know-ledge of the divine volume. Well, we possess the originalGerman Bible printed in 1466, seventeen years before’ theminer’s son of Eisenach saw the light. ’Twenty editionsof the whole Scriptures followed down to 1520 year

m which Luther was condemned by. Leo X.— these in UpperGermany; and four besides in Lower Germany. Nofewer than ninety Plenaria containing the Sunday Epis-tles and Gospels, with fourteen editions of the Psalms inthe vernacular, must be added. Luther’s New Testamentappeared, in 1522, his entire Bible not until 1534. Froma collation of his work with earlier German renderingsit is certain that he made use of them, and so was not thopioneer whom Protestants take him to be. In 1534 infact, as many as thirty editions of the whole Scripturesor of portions of them, were issued by Catholics in Luther’snative tongue. Since then, the German Bible of Dieton-berger and more recently that of Allioli, have kept thefaithful acquainted with Holy Writ under orthodox appro-bation. These facts and dates speak for themselvesLuther was by no means first in the field of translators".And the very forms of these early versions, largely inminiature and pocket editions, indicate how wide-spreadwas their use. 1 a

Other Bibles in the Vernacular.Outside Germany the same work of translation, whichhad begun before printing was invented, went on apace.At Delft the Old Testament in Dutch came out in 1477-the French New Testament is dated Lyons, also of thatyear , The Spanish Scriptures, translated about 1405 byBoniface, brother of St. Vincent Ferrer the Dominicanwere printed in 1478, and republished with licence of thoInquisition in 1,515. The standard French by Lefevrewho was not entirely sound in the Faith, underwent revi-&t Louvain by Catholic divines, and passed throughfifty editions down to the year 1700. In 1471 two versionsor the Bible in Italian were printed at Venice; elevenlull editions, _ with imprimatur of the Holy Office arecounted previous to 1567. Of the Bohemian and otheroutlying versions I will only make mention. But I mayadd that a printer of Nuremberg had set up a warehousein London for the sale of the Latin Vulgate in 1480. Cax-ten Golden Legend,’ 1483, contained nearly the whole

of the Pentateuch and a large portion of the Gospels. Yet110 English Bible was printed until the New Testament ofWilliam Tyndale made Hs appearance in 1525. Why wasthis And how came there to be such an exception tothe rule which elsewhere provoked Churchmen to scatterthe Bible broadcast?

Why No English Printed Bible? J.jWe may give the answer in one word, and thatword ‘ Wycliffe.’ A hundred years before Lutheras born the English nation had been fever-stricken by a great movement towards anarchyand communism, of which the Oxford graduate,

Wycliffe, had expounded the principles, drawing them, ashe said, from Holy Scripture itself London had falleninto the hands of a mob of fanatics; the Archbishop ofCanterbury was murdered; and public order seemed to -beon the brink of dissolution. The Bible in English trans-lated by these Lollards was thus made an apology forsedition, theft, and slaughter; it was wickedly wrestedfrom its true meaning to become the Great Charter ofcrime. We cannot marvel, then, if a few years later, ina convocation held at Oxford (1408), Archbishop Arundelenacted that ‘no man should hereafter by his own authoritytranslate any text of the Scripture into English ’; andthat none should read the versions ‘ lately composed ' inthe time of John Wycliffe or since,’ until the said transla-tion ‘was approved by the Ordinary or a ProvincialCouncil. .... 4 .

~Old English Bibles.

On this subject the latest comment will be found inthe new Encyclopaedia Eritannica. The writer, CanonHensley Henson, stands at the' opposite pole to Catho-licism; but he is thoroughly well-informed; and he says: v -It would appear, however, as if at first at all

persecution was directed not so much against the BlbTfeaE-text itself as against the Lollard interpretations JwhiclPaccompanied it.’ And again: ‘lt must be allowed thatan enactment of this kind,’ meaning Archbishop Arun-del s decree, ‘was not without justification. The Lol-lards, for instance, did not hesitate to introduce into cer-tain copies of the pious and orthodox Commentary on thePsalms by the hermit of Hampole (Richard Polio) inter-polations of their own of the most virulently controversialkind, and although the text of their Biblical versions wasfaithful and true, the General Prologue of the Later Ver-sion was interlarded with controversial matter.’ Never-theless, Canon Hensley Henson goes on to remark, ‘ Forall tins, manuscripts of Purvey’s Revision were copied andrecopied during this (the fifteenth) century, the text itself •being evidently approved by the ecclesiastical authorities,when in the hands of the right people, and if unaccom-panied by controversial matter.’ It is certain that manu-script copies of an English Bible were in possession of suchorthodox Catholics as Thomas of Woodstock, Henry VI.,Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, and the Brigittine nunsof Syon House. English Bibles were oequeathod by will,and given to churches or convents. From these thingsit has been argued, as above by Canon Henson, that auth-ority tolerated the use of a version made by Lollardsno extant Bibles do, in fact, show heretical taints in their—or else, as by Abbot Gasqnet, that there was anacknowledged Catholic translation. We are bound, at allevents, to accept the remarkable witness of Sir ThomasMore in his Dialogue. ‘ I myself have seen and can showyou, says the martyr, Bibles fair and old written inEnglish,_ which have been known and seen by the Bishopof the diocese, and left in the hands of lay men and women '

whom ho knew to be good and Catholic people.’ Morehimself was decidedly in favor of vernacular translations;but ‘ the New Testament newly-forged by Tyndale, alteredand changed in matters of great weight,’ deserved, in hisopinion, to be prohibited. Cranmer and Foxe, themartyrol both allude to translations of the wholebody of Scripture, ‘ as well before John Wycliffe was bornas since,’ observes Foxe. At any rate, West-Saxon andLmdisfarne

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Gospels, not to speak of other documentsknown to history, are sufficient to prove that all along thecenturies, as far back as the time of Venerable Bede, ifany man desired to render Holy Scripture into his mother-tongue he was at liberty to do so, , > , .

Abuses of Scripture Reading by Heretics.But surely at no time could the Catholic Churchallow, in principle or in practice, the contention of Pro-testants that the Bible alone is the rule of faith, or -thatindividual Christians must get their religion' by readingits pages. Moreover, if the Church held, as she does hold,that Scripture is the written Word of God, she was boundto protect it from heretical and profane handling.. ”As Ihave quoted one Protestant, Canon Henson, in defence ofthe Oxford Synod which dealt with Wycliffe translationsI will quote another, the late J. A. Fronde, in illustrationof Sir Thomas More. First, as regards Tyndale’s ver-

sion, Fronde remarks, ‘ The offence was less in the render-ing of the words than in the side-notes, prefaces, andcommentaries,’ yet even the ‘ words ? had many of them tobo corrected by and by, and. always in deference to Cath- *olic criticism, so that, the Authorised Version of 1611which is now being glorified, bears upon it large' traces ofthe Rheims New Testament where Tyndale is supplanted.Again, as Fronde tells ns, ‘ln 1539 appeared Taverner’sBible, with a summary at the commencement ‘ of thingscontained m Holy Scripture,’ in which Protestantism of

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an audacious kind was openly professed. The priesthoodas denied; Masses and purgatory, were ignored ; the Sacra-

ments were described as nothing but outward signs; andthe Eucharist as a memorial supper, without sacrificialcharacter, figurative or real.’ How- could any CatholicBishop endure this? Henry VIII. was even compelledto forbid under penalties the original annotated editionsof Tyndale in 1543. ‘ The Bible," as edited by Crammer,’says Fronde on this event, ‘ was left untampered with; buta Temporary limitation was imposed, perhaps wisely, onits indiscriminate use.’ We have all read Henry’s wordsto his Parliament in. 1539: ‘I am very sorry to know andhear how unreverendly that most precious jewel, the Wordof God, is disputed, rhymed, sung, and jangled in everyalehouse and tavern.’ He had ‘ intended his loving sub-jects to use the commodity of the reading of the Biblehumbly, meekly, reverently, and obediently ’; but quiteother ; consequences speedily became visible, and privatejudgment started on its career towards the goal of un-belief which we now see it is attaining. ‘These are con-siderations that throw light upon the decrees of the Councilof Trent and the discipline long prevalent in face of areligious anarchy. But history shows that the CatholicChurch first preserved Holy Scripture, has always protec-ted it, and was willing to have it rendered into all lan-guages, on condition that it should be devoutly handledand rightly interpreted. Any other reading of her actionis false, ungrateful, and I hesitate not to say malicious.I leave, however, to abler pens the explanation and defenceof Catholic policy after the great Revolt. It is enoughfor me, if I have proved that until Protestants by abusingthe reading of the Bible had made it a pretext for heresiesand divisions beyond counting, the first thought of eccles-iastics as to sanctify the printing-press, and to employit in tho multiplication not only of the Latin Vulgate, butof translations from it in the spoken languages of Chris-tendom. ' . *

HOME RULE CONTROVERSY

AN EMPHATIC PROTEST- The following letter from the Very Rev. Father Price,

Adm., Christchurch, appeared in the Christchurch Pressof May 9 :

Sir, As a constant reader of and subscriber to ThePress for the past twelve years, I feel constrained to makeam emphatic protest against your action in permitting fromtime to time anonymous writers to give expression in yourcolumns to grossly unfair insinuations, and sometimes lyingstatements against our faith and the nationality of thevast majority of your Catholic readers. The latest insultyou have given us is by inserting this morning in the mostprominent page of your issue an article entitled HomeRule,’ and . signed by ‘ History,’ which for its display ofignorance of the case he discusses, and fanatical prejudiceagainst those differing from him, might almost be regardedin this particular branch of literature as a classic.

I must honestly confess that 1 have never come acrossanything in the New Zealand papers to equal in. its offen-siveness this particular diatribe. I do not propose toargue with ‘History,’ although I feel obliged by reason ofthe publicity that you have given his statements to traversea few of the more glaring errors. My quarrel is withyou, Sir, for having given his views the notoriety hecraved for. An editor, you will say, does i ot hold himselfresponsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents.That is a proposition that I would ‘distinguish,’ as wesay in school; opinions, even differing from our own, butheld honestly and put forth in good taste, granted;opinions of the nature of ‘History’s,’ grossly unfair inmatter and objectionable in form, most emphatically, no!1 do object to all this cant about Home Rule being aquestion relating to English politics only. Who says itis so? Who is to determine what questions have a localand what an Imperial interest? Are only Russians to passjudgment: on the State of‘Finland, Prussians on that ofPoland, and Belgians' on the Congo atrocities (sic)?Millions of Irishmen throughout the world do claim to beheard on this subject. If I remember rightly, Sir, youare accustomed to express a like view on the occasion ofevery visit of Irish delegates to this Dominion. ColonialStatesmen and Parliaments have never hesitated to expressan opinion on Home Rule—their opinion being generallyan unanimous vote in its favour, transmitted through theproper channel, to the Home Government. It seems tome one of the questions on which citizens iti the overseadominions are entitled and qualified to express an opinion.Again/ to take at random, another of ‘History’s’grievances, when is the Mayor of a city justified in pre-siding over a public meeting?- Is he to ait until allsections of the community are in agreement on a particularmeasure? A late mayor welcomed to the city the delegatesto the ; Conference of the Loyal Orange Society. Would‘ History,’ ; in view of the numerous’ propositions havingfor their aim the cementing of the ties' of brotherhoodbetween Catholics and Protestants, carried at the meetingat the Opera House on that Sunday afternoon, say thathis late- Worship, in welcoming the Orange delegates to

the city acted as the impartial representative of allcitizens I don’t remember reading any letters of pro-test: even History was silent. If the anti-Home Rulersof Christchurch were to engage the Theatre Royal and holda meeting there in an orderly and' decent manner, as wepropose to do, we would not find fault with them.- ’

‘History,’ with all modesty, would initiate Mr. Taylorinto the real nature of the Home Rule movement. 1 HomeRule means Rome Rule ’ has long since been regarded asan exploded canard. / The Catholic Association exists onlyin the. fertile imagination of your correspondent. I amwell acquainted with a Society bearing that name in Eng-land, but it is non-political, its object being to organisepilgrimages and promote social reunions amongst its mem-bers. Of course the Catholic Church has a ‘ vast organisa-tion’; it may have a ‘ larger service than the- Imperial orour own Government. Ovid inde? One expects everythingbig in the Catholic Church. It is not true that theBishops wink at Catholic Secret Societies, if there beany such. The Scotch and Irish Bishops, and the Popehimself, have fearlessly condemned Catholic Societies when-ever there was anything deserving of censure in theiraims or methods. I have heard of A.P.A.’s and otheralliances that would appeal to your correspondent, but tknow of no such in the Catholic Church.

Catholic ascendency means the triumph of the Irishliquor traffic.’ An impudent lie! Michael McCarthy is asmuch a Catholic as ‘History,’ Hocking, or "any otherdistorter of everything Catholic. He is a renegade whomakes his living by vilifying the Catholic Church in .Ire-land, and secures a wide circulation for his works by repre-senting himself as a Catholic. ‘Michael’ and ‘McCarthy’are names that have served him well in pushing the saleof his books. What does it matter to us in New Zealand,anyhow, who drinks more, the Irish Catholic or his Pres-byterian brother? Isn’t it largely a question of liver?

As regards Catholic intolerance,’ Viceroys, past andpresent, statesmen, Anglican and Presbyterian clergymen,regard it is a bogey whether existing in the North or theSouth. If Catholics are in a majority on local boards, asthe correspondent says, it only shows that they out-numberthe non-Catholics in those particular districts. The Irishdelegates, when they come, will tell us how many IrishProtestants represent Catholic constituencies, and howmany Catholics represent Protestant constituencies. Every-body know's that all the leaders of the Irish movement inthe past, excepting O’Connell, were Protestants.Mr. Lloyd George’s much-debated Budget met withopposition, as a financial statement might oe expected to,on purely economic grounds. Saul among the Prophets!’I remember reading some time ago, with great pleasure, aletter in your columns, showing how our language was per-meated with Biblical allusions and imagery. Would youconsider ‘History’s’ letter as exemplifying your remarks?—Yours, etc., *

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Thos. W. Prick, Administrator. ;

Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch, May 8.

Diocesan NewsARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.)May 13.

The Very Rev. Father O’Shea, S.M., V.G., is atpresent on a visit to Hawke’s Bay.The Rev. Father Barra, of Wanganui, who has beenappointed assistant at St. Joseph’s Church, Buckle street,arrived here last Tuesday.The Rev. Father Quealy, of Palmerston North, whohas been in indifferent health of late, left by the Warrimootor Sydney yesterday.About eighty children made their First CommunionJ°s®ph’s Church, Buckle street, on last Sunday, atthe 7.30 o’clock Mass. . .Ihe new church-schoolroom at Brooklyn will be openedby his Grace Archbishop Redwood on the second Sunday inJune.The monthly .meeting of the Newman Society tookplace in the Sussex Square Convent Schoolroom on last

Sunday, there being a good attendance of .members. Avery interesting and able paper on Newman was readby the Rev. Father Bartley, S.M., M.A. The next meetingo J

pi ace &t St. Patrick’s College on the first SundayIt is with regret that I record the death of Mr. FrankMmogue, a nephew of Mr. M. Kennedy, K.S.G., whichoccurred at Island Bay on last Sunday morning. The

w ii-r Mmogue was a resident of Napier, and came toWellington tor medical treatment some months ago. Thefuneral took place on Monday, and was attended by themembers of the H.A.C.B. Society, the deceased being amember of the Napier branch. The Rev. Father G. Mahony,S.M., officiated at the church (St. Anne’s) and at the8 1& veside in the Mount Street Cemetery. A ■ widow and onechild are left to mourn their loss.t-R.I.P.

v The annual social in aid of the Te Aro Schools takesplace .in the Town . Hall on May 31. The Rev. FatherVenning, S.M., who has charge of the function, is nowbusily engaged circulating the ' tickets and making thenecessary arrangements. As the schools are very muchin need of assistance, it is to be hoped that there, will bea record attendance. . >

5 ; Mr. Albert H. Casey, of the legal ' firm of Casey andMoran, left by the Warrimoo last evening en route toEngland on business. Representatives of the WellingtonCatholic Club, the Lacrosse Association," the DebatingUnion, and the- St. Patrick’s College Old Boys’ Association(of each of which bodies Mr. Casey is a valued member)were present at the boatside, and he was accorded a heartysend-off. lOn behalf■of the Wellington Catholic Club, Mr.Casey was presented with a handsome travelling rug. ■’

.... The Right Rev. Mgr. Fowler left New Zealand yes-terday for Sydney, where he takes a boat for Manilla,Philippine Islands. Few men, clergy or otherwise, haveever visited the Dominion who created such an impressionas did , the Monsignor. His preaching held, thousands spell-bound, and his delightful personality made everybody hisfriend who had the good pleasure to meet him. It willbe a long . time before the Monsignor will be forgotten inWellington, and many a fervent prayer will be offered upfor his safe return to his own country. Wherever hegoes the people of New Zealand will follow him with deepand affectionate interest.

The Ladies’ Particular Council of the St. Vincent dePaul Society met last Monday at the Guildford TerraceSchoolroom, there being a largo attendance of members.-Interesting reports were received from Westport, NewPlymouth, Hawera, Dunedin, and the Superior Council ofAdelaide. The vice-president of the newly-formed Hawerabranch (Mrs. McCarthy) was present' and a letter from acorresponuing member in the person of Mrs. Rcichel, atpresent in America was read. It contained an interestingaccount of Catholic social work in Montreal and - NewYork..

On Sunday, the Feast of the Patronage of St. JosephSolemn High Mass was celebrated at St. .Joseph’s Church,Buckle street. Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy,- S.M., of StPatrick s College, was celebrant, Rev. Fathers Eccleton,S.M., and Venning, S.M., being deacon and sub-deaconrespectively, and Rev. Father Hurley, S.M., master ofceremonies. Special music for the occasion was providedby the choir, under the conductorship of Mr, W. Mac-Loughlin. In the evening a largo congregation listenedto a", interesting discourse on the ‘ Relationshiu betweenthe,Church and Labor,’ by the Very Rev. Father O’Shea,S.M., V .G. , ’

A very successful mission is being conducted by theRedemptonst Fathers at St. Anne’s, Wellington South.Last Sunday there was a general Communion for the menpt the parish. Over 200 men approached the Holy Tableamong whom were members of the H.A.C.B Society (St!Aloysius branch) in regalia, the St. Anne’s Chib, the St.A oysms Boys’ Club and the St. Anne’s Cadets in uniform,l ie St Anne s Cadets and St. Abysms’ Bovs’ Club afterMass adjourned to the clubrooms, where the annual break-fast was held i In the evening the church was crowded,over 700 people being present. The Rev. Father Creagh!G.SS.R., preached an eloquent sermon. During the weekrecefvpri 0nr regatlo-n 3 ended the Masses, and numbersreceived Communion each morning, whilst every eveningthe seating accommodation had been, taxed to the utmostJ he mission will conclude on Sunday,

Amongst the five successful candidates at the recentdental examination, the ,first to be bold under the amendingAct. of last session, appears the names of two of our Catholicyoung men-Messrs W. Ryan and J. Quinn. Mr WRyan who is a son of Mr. Ryan of Hawkestone crescent'is only twenty-two years of. age, and received his educa-tion at the Palmerston North Convent. The distinctionof heading the list was also won by Air Ryan Mr Omis a, student of St. Patrick’s College! Tiffs is another ofthe many instances where, notwithstanding the disadvantafß , U ‘ld ui l\’hl -ch our • Catholic schools, labor, they areable to hold their own against the costly secular systemIt also shows that the religious teaching in no way‘inter!knowledge.

SUC °eSS ° f 0"r Ci“ h “lic students L'seoriara .Ma-mtcßrothers this year have two teams playingAssociation football, and are competing in the fourth andfifth grades. The boys are debarred from playing Rugbvowing to the attitude of the Public Schools’ Unfon whocontrol the junior Rugby players The mottm- fiT’ i

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tie ®ch °/i!S ’ Uni. on Executive, which is comprisedof teachers in the various State schools will pn/ •TOCO]asequentJy’n Hi o 300 boys attending the BrothelSchQpl are practically lost to the Rugby game The R,iX-Union are still, however, moving in CLlt „£by

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Schools’Union to ask them :to hand over the management f'tPoschools football to the Rugby Union If Hffl f~ thMPfliciofc.ri;;.. i - ,;ii; h v u . Pi ‘mis move provessuLV v™,m uul ooyt> wiii receive justice.

Masterton{From our own correspondent.)

May 12. ;Much regret was felt for Bro. S. O’Regan (the popularsecretary of the H.A.C.B. Society here) and Airs. O’Reganon the death of their daughter. b

A large number of children received First Communionon Sunday. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna celebrated aspecial Mass for them, at 7.15 o’clock. A large numberof adults also approached the Holy Table at that, and atthe 8 o clock Mass. . ’

The usual fortnightly meeting of the H.A.C.B. Societynas field last luesday evening, Bro. Waters presiding overa large attendance of members. Four new members wereadmitted. : After the business of the meeting had concludedflO-, Chapman, past president, was presented with ’ afianaso me dinner cruet in connection with his recentmarriage. Bro. H. O’Leary was also heartily congratu-lated by the members on his recent success at the boroughelections, when he topped the poll for a seat in the BoroughCouncil. SongS< and recitations were given by the mem-oers, and an enjoyable evening was spent. - ■

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May 15. ;in compliance with the Defence requirements, a cadetcompany has been formed in connection with St. Mary’sparish, Cnristchurch North, and already about seventymembers have been enrolled. y

The teaching staff and pupils of the Marist Brothers’bcliool much appreciate, the kindness of the Very Revfler J 7-CG’ Ad

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m -»Jn presenting a fine framed pictureof his Holiness the Pope, to be hung in the class-rooms.1? .Mis Lordship- the Bishop, accompanied by the Rev.Father Hyland, loft on Saturday on an episcopal visita-tion of the parochial district of Albnry.

The only winning team of the Marist Brothers’ OldBoys _ Association in last Saturday’s football matches wasthat in the junior flag contest, when they defeated Meri-viilo by seven points to three, after a strenuous game.U .via I ley was the principal scorer.At the recent Christchurch Literary and Musical Com-petitions the following successes were achieved by pupils

oi the Convent of Mercy Colombo street: —Miss Frances’Geritj and Master Howard Moody obtained first prize forBeethoven s piano duet, ‘ Scherzo,’ trio from Septett Op.2U. Master Howard Moody also won the first prize forthe song Blow, blow, thou winter wind ’ (Dr. Arne)Misses Mora McDonald and Mary C. Goggin were speciallycommended for their sterling performance of Weber’s pianoduet, Oberon. Miss Marjory Young was recalled for herbrilliant rendering of ‘Romanza in E flat,’ Op. 44 (Rubin-bit)lily, ’ • '___ : • _ - - ; ,l;

On last Sunday week, Feast of the Patronage of St,Joseph, there was First Communion of the children in St.Mary s Church Christchurch North, at a special Masscelebrated by : the Very Rev. Dean Ginaty, S.M., V.G at 80 clock, when 100 approached the Holy Table. The greatcare and diligent training bestowed upon this large numberof little ones by the resident clergy and the Sisters ofMercy were markedly reflected in the edifying demeanourot the children. After Mass all were entertained at break-fast in the schoolroom by the Sisters and ladies of thecongregation. In the afternoon there were the customarydevotions, including a renewal of baptismal vows.

One evening last week Mrs. Palmer, who has onmany previous occasions proved herself a warm friend ofNazareth House, and its community, generously enter-tained the inmates at an enjoyable instrumental and vocalconcert, and afterwards the aged people at tea. Mrs1 aimer was assisted by Misses Murray, Baker, and Lough-nan. On behalf of the Sisters of Nazareth the Rev. FatherGraham, S.M., very sincerely thanked Mrs. Palmer andparty for their thoughtful and kindly treat, which had beengreatly appreciated by all present. At Mrs. Palmer’srequest the Rev. lather Quinn, S.M., returned heracknowledgments and that of her friends for the gratefulreferences made, them, adding that anything she could everdo to help, comfort, or add to the enjoyment of the inmateswould be a pleasure.The devotion of the Forty Hours’ Adoration, began atNazareth House at the 7 o’clock Mass in the CommunityChapel on the Feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph AMissa Cantata urns celebrated by, the Rev. Father Quinn,S.M. the Rev Fatner Graham assisting, and followed byexposition of the Blessed Sacrament. In the evening theRev. haulier Quinn preached a discourse appropriate ofthe occasion. There was

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v - father Quinn, and in the evening theRe\. h alei Graham preached. On Tuesday morning theRev. Father Graham was celebrant, the Rev. Father QuinnAii

lSAmgftvr vhlcli the devo,? was solemnly closedAll the Catholic inmates approached the. Holy Table duringillumlnltedn; aUd the altar was beautifully adorned anS

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DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) '■May 15.

It is contemplated at an early date. to erect a newbrick school on the Church property at Vermont street,Ponsonby, also to-utilise’-the present school so as to enlargethe Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby road,dd- The numerous friends of Mr. P. J. Nerheny, J.P.,will learn with regret that Mrs. Nerheny has been for sometime seriously ill. Throughout Auckland-the greatest sym-pathy has been extended to the family, and fervent hopesexpressed for Mrs. Nerheny’s recovery.

, v On Monday morning at 9 o'clock there was a SolemnRequiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Edge,mother of the Rev. Father Edge, who died recently inEngland. Rev. Father Edge was celebrant, Rev. FatherCarran deacon, Rev. Father Doyle subdeacon, and Rev.Father Holbrook master of ceremonies. There were presentin the sanctuary his Lordship the Bishop, Right Rev-% Mgr.Gillan, Very Rev. Dean Grogan, Rev. Fathers Wright,Patterson, Ormond, O’Farrell. The music was admirablyrendered by the Sacred Heart choir. There was a verylarge congregation present.

At the recent municipal elections, which caused greatinterest, three of our Catholic citizens were elected. Twoof them, Messrs. Casey and P. J. Nerheny, were re-elected,whilst the. third, Mr. James Collins Gleeson, though anative of the city, had been absent from it so long that hewas practically a stranger. He put up u most strenuousfight, with’ the result that he forged his way to the front,and towards the close of the fight he was the popularcandidate. In a list of fifteen required to make the Coun-cil Mr. Gleeson came fourth. It was a remarkable achieve-ment, and one of which any young man might justly feelproud. Councillor Gleeson received his education at ourCatholic schools and colleges.

Invercargill

(From our own correspondent.)May 15.

The annual meeting of the Invercargill Catholic Clubwill take place during the last week of the present month.

In connection with the new defence regulations,arrangements are being made to form a Catholic corps inInvercargill.

At the 11 o’clock Mass on Sunday the Very Rev. DeanBurke asked the following gentlemen to form a committeewith a view to looking after the affairs of the parish, moreparticularly the decoration of the inside of the church:Messrs. J. Collins, T. McGrath, R. Sweetman, J. McNa-mara, J. Lyons, P. Staunton, J. McDonough, H. Searle,and J. Shepherd.

On Sunday evening, May 7, the Hibernian Band,under Conductor A. R. Wills, gave a benefit concert inaid of. the fund to help the widow of a Mr. Mitchell, whowas accidently killed through collision with a taxi-cab lastweek. As the weather conditions were perfect, the publicturned out in large numbers, and as a result of the con-cert, the sum of £l4 11s 9d was added to the fund whichhas .already exceeded £3OO.

In connection with the bazaar held in aid of theDominican Convent at the Bluff, the Southland Timesreports as follows; The Coronation Fair, in aidof the Dominican Convent School building fund, was openedin the Drill Hall, Bluff, by his Worship the Mayor (Mr.E. A. Nichol) on Wednesday evening. - There was a largeattendance of local and Invercargill visitors. The stallswere arranged under Coronation titles, and were stockedwith - works of art and usefulness. The Hibernian Bandfrom Invercargill was in attendance and played selectionsinside and outside the hall. Several attractive marchesand dances were performed by boys and girls who hadevidently been carefully trained. The stall-holders wereengaged in brisk business during the evening, and thefinancial result should be substantial in aid of the objectsof the fair. A late train conveyed the Invercargill visitorsback to town.

On Tuesday evening, May 9, the Irish Athletic Societyheld a most successful smoke concert. It was the firstsocial function that the society had held for a number ofyears, and the promoters are to be congratulated on thesuccess attained. Amongst those present were representa-tives from the Southland Caledonian Society and the High-land Society, the Caledonian Pipe Band, and the HibernianBrass Band. Mr. James Mulvey (president) occupied thechair, and the following toast list was gone through:‘The King’; ‘Our Judges,’ proposed by Mr. 0. Matheson,and responded to by Messrs. J. S. Murphy, J. Kirwan,and T. McGrath ‘Kindred Societies,’ proposed by Mr.J. Mulvey and responded to by Mr. John Matheson, A.McGregor, C. Wilson, and H. Searle; ‘Our Handicapper,’proposed by Mr. B. E. Murphy, and responded to by Mr.John Bell; ‘lrish Athletic Society,’ proposed by Mr. JohnMatheson, and responded to by Messrs. J. Mulvey andJames Collins; ‘Our Starter and Honorary Stewards,’ pro-

posed by Mr. John Maenamara, and responded'< to byMessrs. A. McGavock and C. McKay; 'The Press,' pro-posed by Mr. H. Crawford, and responded to by 'the-pressrepresentatives; 'The Secretary,' proposed by Mr. R. S.Waterston, and responded to by Mr. B. E. Murphy; ,( ThoSuperintendent,' proposed by Mr. R. S. Waterston; andresponded to by Mr. C. Matheson ; 'The Ladies,' proposedby Mr. T. Pound, and responded to by Messrs. A. McGavoekand M. Scully; 'The President,' proposed by Mr. T. A.Wallace, and responded to by Mr. James MulVey. Duringthe evening songs were rendered by Messrs J. Maenamara"H. Searle, A.. H. Fitzgerald, Clem Griffiths, and M. J.Forde; recitations by Messrs. A. Sutherland, T. Pound,Jas. Mulvey, and M. J. Forde; pipe solos by Messrs. C.Wilson and W. Jenkins. Mr. A. Sutherland also danced.The accompaniments were played by Mr. Robertson andMr. Griffiths.

THE IRISH ENVOYS

MEETINGS IN THE NORTH ISLAND

ARRANGEMENTS IN THE PRINCIPAL CENTRES

Auckland

By telegraph from our own correspondent.)May 15.

The meetings of the Irish Envoys in the city and pro-vince promises to be most successful. Taumarunui . hasasked for a meeting, and June 14 has been suggested. Thiswould make eleven meetings in Auckland. The local com-mittee is most actively at work to promote the success ofthe meeting in the city. The usual rancorous letters areappearing in the morning paper, no doubt timed to dis-credit the Envoys’ mission, but all in vain. At a com-mittee meeting to-night, Rev. Father Holbrook carried aproposition to form a ladies’ committee to canvass thewomen of Auckland, the minimum subscription to be oneshilling, as suggested by a lady correspondent some weeksago in the columns of the Tablet.

His Worship the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. C. J. Parr)was waited upon on Wednesday last to request him topreside at the public meeting to be addressed by the IrishEnvoys in His Majesty’s Theatre, on Friday, June 2. Thedeputation comprised the following:Hon. W. BeehanM.L.C., Rev. Father Holbrook, Messrs. J. J. O’Brien’George Higgins, T. Carty, D. Flynn, P. Gleeson, J. C.Gleeson; H. P. Kavanagh, J. H. Egan, M. Lynch, andM. J. Sheehan.

The Hon. Mr. Beehan informed the Mayor that it wasthe unanimous wish of the committee and of the friendsand supporters of Home Rule for Ireland that he shouldtake the chair at the Envoys’ meeting.

The Mayor, in reply, said it gave him great pleasureto see so many of his friends and well-wishers in the depu-tation, and he desired to thank them for their steadysupport of him. In regard to Home Rule for Ireland, horegarded it as a question of Imperial importance, andnot in the light of party, nor in a parochial spirit. Hewas also proud to claim to be three parts an Irishmanthe best part of him was Irish. From his mother helearned in his childhood of the wrongs and sufferings andstruggles of Ireland. He could not, therefore, refuse topreside at a meeting to be held to assist Ireland. It gavehim great pleasure to accede to the wish of the deputation.Rev. Father Holbrook thanked the Mayor for hiskindly speech, and said he always admired the man, par-ticularly in an

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exalted position, when he referred withtenderness , to his mother. He hoped the Mayor wouldlong be spared to work for the community for which alreadyhe had done so much.Councillor Gleeson has received the following letterfrom Mr, Joseph Devlin, M.P. for West Belfast: ‘ Messrs.'Hazleton, Donovan, and W. Redmond, jun., are leavingfor New Zealand on either March 16 or 17, and Mr. Red-

mond has asked me to write to you to know whether you 1would organise forty or fifty meetings for them. I told'him .that I thought you would-be very willing to do so. ;They are going, subsequently, to Australia, but they in-tend to spend ten weeks in New Zealand: first. I amwriting Mr. Martin Kennedy to say that I believe youwill co-operate with him, and I hope you will do so. Anychance of your being Home for the opening of the OldHouse in College Green ?’

The date of the Irish Envoys’ meeting at Pukekohehas been altered from Monday, June 5, to Tuesday, June6, owing to the inability of the committee to secure thepublic hall on the former date.

Christchurch(From our own correspondent.)

The local committee formed in connection with thevisit to Christchurch of the Irish Parliamentary Envoysmet on last Friday evening in the Catholic Chibrooms, U

NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, Mat 18, 1911. 907place of the previously arranged evening (Wednesday), soas not to clash with the citizen’s Coronation meeting.

Mr. H. H. Loughnan presided, and apologies forabsence were received: from the Very Rev. Father Price,Adm., Mr. G. Laurenson, M.P., and others. Mr. G. Witty,M.P., and Mr. T. H. Davey. M.P., attended, but owingto other engagements were obliged to leave after statingthey were entirely in sympathy with the objects of thecommittee, and promising to do all in their power toassist. . The secretary (Mr. E. O’Connor) reported in thedetail work transacted since the first meeting. On theunderstanding- that the Envoys could remain in this cityover the two days following their public meeting, theH.A.C.B. Society reported that a social gathering wouldbe arranged by that body in the nature of awelcome recep-tion, with the assistance of the general committee. It wassubsequently ascertained that the Envoys’ visit would beextended to the requisite time.

Mr. E. O’Connor (secretary) has been enabled toarrange the following itinerary of meetings for Canterbury,outside Christchurch —Rangiora, June 16 ; Ashburton, 17;Temnka, 19; Timaru, 20 Albury, 21; Geraldine, 22 or 24;Waim ate, 23. '

The members of the committee resolved to proceed toLyttelton by tho early train on the 25th to meet the dele-gates. It was decided to invite a number of prominentcitizens to occupy seats on the platform.

Geraldine

(From our own correspondent.)A well-attended meeting was held at Geraldine on

Thursday night for the purpose of arranging a fittingreception to the Home Rule delegates. Mr. F. R.Flatman was voted to the chair. He said that whethera man was a Home Ruler or not he liked to hear bothsides of the question, and he was sure the people of Geral-dine would like to hear these gentlemen from Ireland. Astrong committee, was appointed, with Mr. Flatman chair-man, Mr. E. O’Malley deputy-chairman, and Mr. J. Con-nolly secretary and treasurer. A subscription list wasopened in the room and a sura of £55 6s collected. TheAery Rev. Dean Rowers said that not a penny of themoney raised would go to the delegates. He mentionedthat Mr. Hazleton would probably visit Geraldine aboutthe third week in June. The object of the delegates wasto explain the position and to collect fundsto preventstrife, not to make it.

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.)A meeting of the executive of Hie local committee in

connection with the visit of the Irish Envoys was held onFriday evening, Dr. Longlman presiding. It was unani-mously decided to add Rev. Father Tubman’s name, to theexecutive. Correspondence was read from the Christchurchcommittee stating that a delegate would address a meetingin Timaru on Tuesday, June 20. A large amount of busi-ness was done in connection with the arrangements for thereception of the delegate. Collectors reported that thepromises of support were very encouraging. Tho trea-surer (Mr. D. Mahoney) acknowledges subscriptionsamounting to £67 18s 6d to the Home Rule fund.

Stratford

(From our own correspondent.)Messrs. Redmond and Donovan, the Irish delegates,

who visited Stratford last Thursday, 11th inst., were ac-corded a civic reception, and were afterwards entertainedby the Mayor (Mr. J. Masters) at afternoon tea. In theevening they spoke to a crowded audience in the TownHall. The Mayor, presided, and on the stage were thecouncillors and many of the leading citizens. The addresswas on the usual linos as given at other centres, and wasattentively listened to and very ranch appreciated. Fundsin hand and to be collected will surpass our efforts on theoccasion of Air. J. Devlin’s visit, and a congratulatorytelegram was received on Saturday from Mr. Martin Ken-nedy, _ thanking tho chairman (Rev. Father Treacy) andcommittee for the splendid results.

Hokitika. . T, - A

(From our own correspondent.')A very enthusiastic meeting was held recently for the

purpose of arranging for the visit of the Irish Envoys tothis district. A very strong committee was formed, withMr. C. Ward as chairman, Rev. Father Clancy as treasurer,and Mr. James Parnell Downey as secretary. It wasdecided that an invitation he extended to the delegates tovisit Hokitika, where they are undoubtedly assured of avery hearty welcome.

Dunedin .......

On Wednesday evening of last week a meeting ofsympathisers with Home Buie was held in the Board Roomof His Majesty’s Theatre, to make arrangements for thereception and public appearance of the Irish Envoys inDunedin, and also to arrange a programme of meetings forOtago and*Southland. • . - ; ;

.The Hon. J. B. Callan, M.L.C., was voted to thechair, and there was a representative attendance. ■ r >'i -The Hon. Mr. Callan said the object of the meetingwas to make arrangements for the reception and publicappearance of the Irish Envoys—Messrs. Hazleton, Red-mond, and Donovan. He had no doubt but that theirmeeting here would be as successful as similar meetingshad been in the past, and that they w'Ould receive thesame cordial reception that was accorded Irish delegateson former occasions by the press and people of Dunedin.He suggested the appointment of a secretary and treasurer,and also a small working committee to make the necessaryarrangements. -

Mr. J. J. Marlow was appointed secretary, and Mr,M. Goughian treasurer. ' , , :

Rev. Father Coffey said that he had been in corre-spondence with Mr. Martin Kennedy, of Wellington, andat first he was given to understand that the delegates wouldreach Dunedin about the middle of June, but the latestinformation to hand was that they would not arrive herebefore July 1. He tried to get an earlier date for Dunedin,so that the meetings in the country districts could be heldbefore the bad weather set in, but he was not successful,owing to the dates being already arranged for Canterbury...Not only would the suggested working committee have tomake arrangements for the Dunedin meeting, but theywould have to arrange dates for those in Invercargill,Oaraaru, Lawrence, Milton, Gore, Otautau, Queenstown,and probably Central Otago, speaking with regard to theexception taken by the conservative press to the appealfor monetary assistance in these colonies, he pointed l outthat the Irish Parliamentary Party had fought two elec-tions last year, which required a considerable sum ofmoney, and that possibly they might have to contestanother election before the end of this vear. The Irishpeople had contributed generously to the parliamentaryfund, and they were justified in asking assistance from theIrishmen and sons of Irishmen who were blessed with themeans, and lived in a colony - which enjoyed Home Buie.He could not understand any man living in a self-governingcolony being opposed to Homo Rule for Ireland. Theopponents of Horae Rule had raised the religious question,but this was done for political and party purposes, as therewas no difference about religious matters in the South andWest of Ireland where Catholics were in an overwhelmingmajority. 13

It was resolved to appoint all present as a generalcommittee, from which the following working committeewas set up: —Messrs, A. E. Barclay, F. Armstrong, C. A.Shi el, J. B. Caban, jun., J. Collins, T. J. Hussey, W.Goughian, J. O’Neill, and Rev. Father Coffey.When more definite information is to hand the work-ing committee will arrange dates for meetings in Otago andSouthland.

A number of those present were appointed to solicitsubscriptions in the city and suburbs, and before theproceedings were brought to a - close a subscription listwas opened, and in a very short time the chairman wasable to announce that over 100 guineas had been collected. -

The enthusiasm displayed and the generous response tothe appeal for subscriptions augur well for the success oftho Envoys visit to Dunedin.

Thames

(From oar own correspondent.)May 11.

A committee of loading citizens has been formed forthe purpose of arranging details of the reception to theIrish delegates, who are to deliver an address in Thameson June 8. . Subscription lists havq been issued, and thedistrict will, it is anticipated, sustain its reputation ofthe past by raising a substantial sum in aid of the HomeBuie movement. .

v Qreymouth\ —■ ———

(From our own correspondent.)■ .

May 11,A public meeting was held in the Public Hall lastThursday evening to make arrangements for receiving thoIrish delegates on their visit to the West Coast. HisWorship the Mayor (Mr. A. C. Russell) presided, andexplained the objects of the meeting. The following com-mittee were elected: —The Mayor, Messrs. E. M SheedvT. P. Fogarty, J. Kerr, T. 'Keenan, J. P Beirne, DShannahan, M. J. Phillips, and H. F. Doogan.

- A sumof over. £6O was subscribed in the room, and it was decidedto forward lists to residents in various parts of the dis-trict. ; . •- , .

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NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, May 18,"1911. 911N.Z. IRISHWOMEN: A SUGGESTION.

TO THE EDITOR.Sir,—Will you kindly allow me space in your paper

to endorse A Daughter of Erin’s’ suggestion re Irish-women and their descendants in New Zealand being al-lowed an opportunity of giving a contribution, howeversmall, in aid of the Home Rule fund. Irishmen, as wenote with pleasure, are already up and doing, and whyshould Irishwomen not follow their example? Wouldit not be a good plan if, say, two lady collectors were ap-pointed in each parish. It would be a means of approach-ing those who would feel shy of sending a small contribu-tion; or again, those who take not interest enough in thecause to send any contribution direct. May I suggestthat if all the children in our Catholic schools throughoutthe Dominion were asked to contribute a penny each, thesum total may be very creditable. Hoping some influen-tial person will give a lead. lam sure others will follow.—I am, etc.,

A DAUGHTER OF ERIN, NO 2.

WEDDING BELLSy

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BOYLE—FLYNN.(From a correspondent.)

A wedding of much interest took place at the residenceof Mr. T. Flynn, * Spring Park/ Waikouro, on April 24,when his eldest daughter, Miss Catherine Josephine, wasunited in the bonds of Matrimony to Mr. Martin Boyle,second son of Mr. John Boyle, .

‘ Mayfield/ Heddon BushNuptial Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Lynch(Wroy’s Bush), who performed the marriage ceremony.The bride, who was given away by her father, wore ahandsome dress of cream embroidered silk with the cus-tomary veil and wreath of orange blossoms. She wasattended by her two sisters, Misses Mary and Dora Flynn,as bridesmaids, and Mr. John Boyle (brother of the bride-groom) acted as groomsman. After the ceremony, Rev.Father Lynch presided at the wedding breakfast, and ina felicitous speech proposed the health of the newly marriedcouple. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a goldbangle, and to the bridesmaids gold band rings sot withemeralds. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was a goldalbert. The happy couple left by motor car en route forQueenstown, where the honeymoon was to be spent.

BOYLE—O’BRIEN.(From a correspondent.)

On Wednesday, April 26, a pretty wedding took placeat ‘Oak Bank/ Lochiel, the contracting parties being MissRosanna O’Brien, third daughter of Mr. Morgan O’Brienand Mr. William Boyle, fifth son of Mr, John Boyle, ‘ May-field/ Heddon Bush. The ceremony was performed bythe Rev. Father O’Neill (Winton), in the presence of alarge number of friends and relatives of the bride andbridegroom. The bride was attired in a pretty dress ofcream radianta, trimmed with silk insertion and silverbraid, and wore the customary veil and wreath fastenedwith a coronet of pearls. She was attended by her sister,Miss Nora O'Brien, as bridesmaid, while Mr. Frank Boylefilled the position of best man. The bridegroom’s presentto the bride was a diamond ring, and to the bridesmaida handsome bracelet. After the ceremony the weddingparty repaired to a large marquee on the lawn, where thewedding breakfast was presided over by the Rev. FatherO’Neill. The young couple were the recipients of numerousvaluable and useful presents.

HENRY—LYONS;(From an occasional correspondent.)

On Thursday, May 11, a pretty wedding took place atthe 'Cathedral, Christchurch, when Miss Anne WinfredLyons, sixth daughter of Mr. Joseph Lyons, was marriedto Mr. Alfred Victor Henry. Both the contracting partiesbelong to the Cathedral parish. The bride, who was givenaway by her father, wore, besides a wreath and veil, anelaborately trimmed cream silk costume. The bridesmaidswere ■ Miss Christina Lyons and Miss Gertrude Lyons(sisters of the bride), and Mr. Thomas Francis Walklin(brother-in-law of the bride) was best man. The, Rev.Father McDonald performed the ceremony, and celebratedthe Nuptial Mass. The ceremony over, the wedding partyreturned in taxi-cars to the residence of the bride’s fatherin St. David’s street, where the breakfast took place. Thenewly-married couple were the recipients of many handsomeand useful presents.

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MR. JEREMIAH CONNOLLY, GERALDINE.(From our own correspondent.)

The many friends of Mr. Jeremiah Connolly, late ofKakahu Flat, Geraldine, heard with sincere regret of hisdeath, which took place at the residence of his daughter,Doncastor Hotel, Washdyke, on April 25, at the ripe ageof seventy-four years. The late Mr. Connolly was born in1837, at Leap, Co. Cork, and left Ireland for Victoria in1859. After spending a short time in Victoria, he. cameover to New Zealand in 1861, and went to the West Coastgoldfields. He remained there for a time and then came overto work in the Lyttelton tunnel, and- later on bought asmall farm on Kakahu Flat. This was in the earlysixties. Farming was not then as now; the land had to becleared of flax, manuka scrub, etc. He was one of theold pioneers who worked hard and who, by industry andenergy, gradually added to his holding, until he acquireda large first-class farm, which he cultivated in a mostsuccessful manner. 'lndeed, he was one of South Canter-bury s most successful farmers. His house was alwaysopen to those who needed help, and many who are in pros-perous circumstances now owe it to him for his kind andsound advice and material help. He was a sterling Irish-man, and a staunch Catholic. The late Mr. Connollymarried in 1873, and he leaves three sons and two daughtersto mourn the loss of a kind father. His wife died aboutfive years ago. He retired from farming about four yearsago, and went to live with his daughter, Mrs. ConnollyDoncastor Hotel, Washdyke, where he passed neaceablvaway after a lingering illness, fortified by the rites of theChurch. Ihe attendance at the funeral, which was oneof the largest ever seen in the district, was testimony tothe esteemin which he was held by all classes of the com-munity.—

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NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, May 18, 1911. 913DEATHS

CONNOLLY.—On April 25, 1911, at the residence of hisdaughter, Doncaster Hotel, Washdyke, Jeremiah Con-nolly, late of Kakahu, Geraldine; aged 74 years.—

R.I.P.SEARLE.—On May 13, 1911, at Mrs. J. N. O’Boyle’s,

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VINCENT.On March 19, 1911, at No. 42 Marine parade,Napier, Mary Ellen, second dearly beloved daughter ofthe late Richard and Ellen Vincent, of Opawa, Christ-church, and dearly beloved sister of Mrs. G. Searle,Napier; aged 32.—R.1.P.

MARRIAGESHENRY—LYONS.—On May 11, at the Cathedral, Bar-

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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1911.

SCHOOL FOOTBALL: SOME WELLINGTON‘SPORTS’

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HERE is no sphere in which bigotry is so out

f'"“ {lj of place, anti so disgusting as in the world0 £ of sport; and happily, there is no sphere ini'ST which it is so rare. But it is occasionally

met with. The latest instance in point isajh furnished by the city of Wellington—or rather“W by a narrow coterie of public school teachers

r who, it is safe to say, represent neither theWellington sporting world as a whole, nor

even the general body of Wellington school teachers, inHie contemptible and utterly unsportsmanlike spirit which

they have displayed. The victims are the boys of theMarist Brothers’ schools in Wellington and we take thefacts of the case from the numerous reports, articles, andletters which have appeared in the Wellington papersduring the past two or three weeks.

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In Wellington, Rugby football amongst the schools iscontrolled by a Public Schools Rugby Union, composed of.the assistant masters of the various State schools—

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Schools’ Rugby Union, unhappily, being in no way underthe control of the general Rugby Union for the province.For some years past the Marist Brothers’ School in Wel-lington have been playing Association football, because thePublic Schools’ Union would not allow them to enter fo’’the Schools’ Rugby competitions. Some five or six yearsago they applied to be allowed to play Rugby with theState schools, but their application was refused on thefollowing grounds: (1) That the Wellington Public SchoolsUnion was a public schools’ union, and could not admitprivate schools without altering its constitution'. (‘One

would think,’ remarks a critic, ‘that they were beingasked to alter the constitution of the United States’).(2) That the Marist Brothers’ boys were bigger than theState school boys, and (3) That there , were not sufficientgrounds available. The consequence was that the MaristBrothers’ boys were compelled to play Association in theAssociation Boys’ Leagues; and although formal applica-tion for permission to play Rugby has been made annuallysince that time, it has been invariably refused.

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Three or four weeks ago Brother Vergilius, on behalf ofthe Marist Brothers, made a fresh application, for per-mission to enter teams for the Rugby competitions, - andagain the Schools’ Rugby Union refused the application,no reasons whatever being given, Bro. Vergilius pro-tested to the Wellington Rugby Union; and the othernight a deputation from that body waited on the PublicSchools’ Union, and asked that the Marist Brothers’ boys’request be granted. It was pointed out by the deputa-tion that it seemed to be an easy matter for the PublicSchools’ Union to alter its constitution if it so desiredthat there was nothing to show that the Marist Brothers'boys were bigger than the State school boys, and that, asthe city recreation grounds had been formed since the lastapplication, and the Rugby Union had plenty of grounds,the objection on this score was now removed. It wasfurther pointed out that in Auckland and Canteibury theMarist Brothers’ Schools took part in the schools’ com-petitions. A most earnest appeal was made to the mem-bers of the Schools’ Union to take a broadminded andsportsmanlike .view of the question; but so far as themajority were concerned the appeal was in vain. Byseven votes to five, a motion that the Marist Brothers’Schools be admitted was rejected. No reasons wereassigned, the nearest approach thereto being a statementby one Mr. McKenzie that ‘he must oppose the motion ashe had done on former occasions. He did not know thathe could advance any particular reason, but he supposedhe was conservative.’ Other people

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will suppose that hewas something much more contemptible. Two furtherdeputations were sent from the Senior Rugby Union andeventually—apparently with a view of shifting responsi-bility— Schools’ Union referred the case to the Head-masters’ Association. To their shame be it said, thisbody, after a prolonged discussion, decided to endorse andsupport the action of the Schools’ Union.

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As was only to be expected in a sport-loving communitylike Wellington, this decision has been received withgroans of disapproval in every direction. In presseditorials, in the letters of numerous correspondents, andin the speeches of members of the Senior Rugby Union, theattitude of the Schools’ Union has been strongly censuredand condemned. Under the heading of ‘A Puzzling Dis-crimination,’ the Evening Post remarks: A refusal by theWellington Public Schools’ Rugby Union to admit theMarist Brothers’ boys to its competitions has exposed theunion to attacks which correspondents have not delayed tomake. Unhappily there has been a suggestion that thereligious element has not been overlooked by the union, butwe cannot believe that the members have been guilty of anysuch narrowness. One explanation offered is that the

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- April 4, 1900. LEO XIII, Pope.

NEW 1ZEALAND TABLET914 Thursday, May 18, 1911.

union, " under its constitution, cannot admit teams fromprivate schools. Another excuse is that the grounds arejust barely sufficient for the present teams, and that theMarist Brothers’ boys are bigger than their contemporaries,on the average. We agree with a correspondent that theconstitution can be easily amended to permit the entry ofthe Marist teams. We think, too, that the ground diffi-culty has been exaggerated. Is the “big boy” figure abogey ? slf there are such terrible young giants at theMarist schools, surely it is possible to handicap them. Tosustain this argument about size the union has to showthat the average standard ages at the Marist schools arehigher than the' State schools’ averages. -On present indi-cations the union appears to have an unconvincing case,and its attitude must inevitably promote unpleasantness.And the Free Lance, in an article whose thoughtful fair-ness must appeal to every reader, takes the same position.‘ Leaving out of the question altogether the ultimate goodof the Rugby game . . . there is no legitimate argu-ment that can be brought forward to justify the barringof the Catholic lads from indulging in the Rugby game.In ,New Zealand there is no line of demarcation drawn asbetween the players bank clerk and the navvy, theCollege professor and the wharf laborer, the tradesman andthe civil servant are all on the one level when they donthe jersey, for then they are footballers, and footballersonly. The black man, the white man, and the brownman all are brothers at Rugby, and, this being admitted, itis passing strange that a line should be drawn betweenthe boy educated at the public schools and his future fellow-citizen at the Marist schools. , . . . Fair play is ajewel, and this is all that is asked for on behalf of thepupils of the Marist Brothers’ Schools. Religious distinc-tions should be unknown in our outdoor sports.’

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. In spite of the churlish obstinacy and of the repeatedand decisive refusals of the Schools’ Union, the matter isby' no ; means finally disposed of. At the latest meet-ing of the committee of the Senior Rugby Union a motionwas carried that ‘a subcommittee be appointed to wait onthe Schools’ Union requesting them to hand over controlof schools football to the Rugby Union’; and if it be foundfeasible a fresh lot of schools competitions will be arrangedunder the sole control of the Senior Rugby Union, and tothese the Marist Brothers’ boys will be freely admitted.The essence of true sport is friendly rivalry, and a willing-ness to let the best men win. These qualities have beenconspicuous!} 7 wanting in the attitude adopted by themajority of the Wellington school teachers ; and whateverelse these individuals may be, they are certainly no sports.It . is in reality a matter of small moment, ultimately, tothe Marist Brothers’ schools whether their boys play Rugbyor ‘ Soccer ’; but the point for which the Brothers arecontending—the principle that Catholic boys should notbe discriminated against in the world of sport because oftheir religion—is one which should be defended and main-tained in every possible way. On its behalf Bro. Vergiliushas put up a stubborn and determined fight; and the oddsare, on present indications, that—in the lo"g run— willwin. ' ' ’

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A HOME RULE CONTROVERSY,v: Following on the leader in the Christchurch Press on

the mission of the Irish delegatesto which editorial refer-ence was made in our last week's issue—there has arisenin the columns of that paper a brisk, and on the anti-HomeRule side, a somewhat bitter controversy. Reasonablecriticism and discussion on the Home Rule question noone, of course, can object to; but a piece of literary vil-lany—'wliich was freely granted the hospitality of the Presscolumnsperpetrated, under the mask of anonymity; bya correspondent signing himself 'History,' was beyond allbounds of reason and decency. The object of the produc-tion was to bluff and bully-rag Messrs. I. E. Taylor and,T* H. Davey, M.P.'s, out of taking 'official part in thedelegates' Christchurch meeting. These two gentlemenare .very well able to look after themselves; but that doesnot release the friends of the cause from the duty ofstrongly protesting against the controversial methods

. adopted, , and in particular against the licence permittedby the Press to this anonymous slanderer-at-large of the

Irish people and of the Catholic Church. Edwin Mark-ham has made us familiar with ' The Man with the Hoe '—

the letters of 'History reveal the writer as^the man'withthe muckrake. Lies there are in legions. Mr. MichaelMcCarthy is quoted '*

as ' himself a Roman Catholic '; al-though, as is generally known, he has ceased to be evena nominal Catholic, and when last heard of-—about a coupleof years ago— lecturing in England on behalf of theProtestant Women's Alliance. ' The Irish Nationalistmembers are spoken of as being ' in the grip of the Cath-olic Association'—although that organisation never hadany real tangible existence, and to-day is as dead as thelong-deceased Caesar. The moment its suggested objectswere published in Dublin, they were condemned by the IrishBishops; and at the present time the association is simplynon-existent. The Irish Party and people are describedas creatures of the publican and the brewer— thereis probably no country in the world which is being literallyswept by temperance sentiment as Ireland is to-day. Theletter concludes with a reference to Mr. T. E. Taylor,M.P., as Tommy Among the Papists'and this literaryhog-wash is published in full, without excision or modi-fication of any kind. We print elsewhere a vigorous pro-test against such editorial remissness made by the VeryRev. Father Price. The editor of the Press attempts adefence, in the course of which he evinces good intentionsand a certain amount of friendly feeling towards the Cath-olic body, but the defence is palpably inadequate. Thebad taste of the production in question is admitted; andthe justification advanced for permitting its publicationis, that if an editor rejected everything which he did notpersonally approve there would be an end to free discus-sion. That, of course, is not the question. The editorof the Press must admit that it is both his right and hisduty, to draw the line somewhere and . when a letter in-cludes grossly insulting references to the Catholic Churchand the Irish people, as well as a personal attack on theMayor of the city and on a brother M.P., it is time foran editor to have some regard for the feelings of hisreaders. At the very least it should be insisted on, insuch a case, that the writer should sign his real name. Inthis particular instance, we have, for ourselves, little doubtof the identity of this correspondent. It will, we believe,be found to correspond with that of the small-souled in-dividual, with a mania for anonymous scribbling, who sometime ago over the signature of ' Carpus' attacked hisbrother ministers in the columns of the Otago Daily Times;the same who, later on, in the same paper over the sig-nature of 'R.W.' delivered a series of wanton and maliciousattacks on almost everything Catholic; the same who, onlythe other day, vented his anti-Catholic spleen in the Christ-church papers, once more over the familiar signature of' R.W.' It. is satisfactory to reflect that all this mud-stirring and mud-slinging will have the very oppositeeffect from that which is intended. It will not only arouseIrish enthusiasm to the highest pitch, but will serve inevery way as a magnificent advertisement for the dele-gates. Out of evil good will come; and the Christchurchvisit may now be confidently regarded as an assuredsuccess. ,

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NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, May 18, 1011. 915to introduce in the House of Commons a measure on thelines of the Licensing Bill of 1908 as a minimum. _ Walesalready has a pledge in respect to Welsh Disestablishment;Labor, in respect to Payment for Members; and, of course,the Nationalists have a very definite and explicit pledge inregard to Home Rule. The militant suffragistswho aremaking the biggest fight to get a —seem to be abouttho only people who are unable to extract one.

Getting Home on the BachelorsAt the present time the Rural Councils in Ireland are

engaged in considering applications and representationsunder the recent Laborers’ Acts (which correspond to ourNew Zealand Workmen’s Homes legislation) and in viewof the irrepressible Irish wit and love of fun it was onlyto be expected that the otherwise dry proceedings wouldbe enlivened by many an amusing dialogue and passage-at-arras. A typical instance is described in the DublinFreeman's Journal of March 25, when, at a special meetingof the Edenderry No. 1 Rural Council, matters suddenlytook an interesting turn, and a veritable war was wagedon unmarried laborers.

Patrick Farrelly, a beardless son cf toil, who lookedabout 18, was one of the applicants. .

As he entered the Boardroom the chairman (Mr. D.Sheil) said— is a shop boy apparently.

Mr. M. MooreHe looks more like a jockey, Mr.Chairman (laughter). Were you ever at the Curragh,Farrelly ?

The applicant (indignantly)—Certainly not.Are you married?—Not yet. 1 am thinking ,of it

(laughter).The Chairman These intentions are very good, but

I regiet to say that the laborers very seldom carry themout,

Mr. Donnelly, D.C., said he could assure the Councilthat if this man got a cottage ho would get married.

The Chairman all say that, but when it comesto tho point they fight shy. We will only have to takethe cottages from any laborers who refuse to get married(To the applicant)—Your application is passed, but under-stand that if you don’t get married you won’t get thecottage ultimately.

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The applicant—l will want the cottage before I . getthe wife.The Chairman—Yes, but if you don’t get marriedwhen you do get the cottage you will be put out.Another applicant (James Dunne) resented the Coun-

cil’s suggestions regarding the advisability of his gettingmarried, and added, amidst a good deal of laughter, thathis questioner (Mr. Moore, D.C.) ‘could go to the PrivyCouncil about it.’

This application was refused.John Finn applied for a cottage on Mr. Moore’s land.Mr. Moore—l have no objection if the man is married,

but lam sworn against bachelors (laughter)—l have ahorror of them (laughter).The applicant you are one yourself, sir (loudlaughter).Mr. Moore—lf this man promises me that he will «-etmarried I won’t object. °

The applicant—Now I’m ‘cornered’ (loud laughter).Clerk (to tho applicant)—Promise you’ll get marriedand you’re all right.The applicantl would break your word (laughter).Mr, Moore—If you don’t keep your promise you won’tgot the cottage.The applicant—l will do my best.

iMr. Moore—lf these fellows don’t get married theyshould be all evicted.Nineteen applications Were passed altogether, and inevery case that was rejected the chief .ground of objectionwas that the applicant was unmarried.

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Rule Controversy in Christchurch. 'Theidentity of the anonymous slanderer. Page 914 FatherPrice's reply. Page 904.More Tercentenary. The Methodist Times and theAnglicans. Page 901. ■The 'Socialism ' of the. Maoriland Worker. Page 901The Coronation Service— and present. Page 902

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The annual euchre party of the Hibernian Society hasbeen postponed from June 9 to Juno 16.

The president of the Ladies’ Club (Mrs. Jackson) en-tertained the members of that club at a social evening inSt. Joseph’s Hall on Wednesday evening. ,

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An entertainment in aid of the funds of St. Joseph'sLadies’ Hockey Club will be given in St. Joseph’s Hall, onTuesday evening. An excellent programme, consisting ofmusical selections and two dramatic pieces, has been pre-pared. -

Private advice has been received- in Dunedin that Dr.Morkane ,late of Kumara, who has been in England duringthe past twelve months, visiting the various hospitals, hasgained the F.R.C.S. degree at Edinburgh. We understandthat Dr. Morkane will return to New Zealand, via Canada,about the end of the year. ;

The St. Joseph’s Harriers ran to Waitati on Saturday,as guests of Mrs. Cleary, eighteen members turning’ outunder Captain Swanson. Starting from the Albany StreetSchool at 3 p.ra., the pack struck along Harbor, terrace,up Forth street, and through the Gardens, coming out onthe Main road, which was followed to the end of Normauby.The pack had a stiff climbUp the short cut, coming out atthe Upper Junction, and after a brief spell they settleddown in earnest for their destination, reaching Waitatiabout 4.40 p.m. after a very enjoyable run. A good pacewas maintained throughout, and most of the membersshowed surprisingly good form, none of them being any5the worse of their long journey. The members subsequentlysat down to an excellent dinner, kindly provided by Mrs.McCleary, assisted by her lady friends. After a shortmusical programme the members and lady friends returnedto town by the 7 o’clock train. \

At a meeting of St .Joseph’s Men’s Club on Mondayevening Rev. Father P. J. O’Neill (president) read a Veryinstructive paper on ‘Spain and the Church.’ Prefacinghis paper, Father O’Neill said that the present differences,between the Holy See and Spain are only repetitions ofwhat had taken place several times during the past 'onehundred years. Spain is practically an unknown countryto English-speaking people; very few tourists visit band-its internal affairs are known only to the Spaniards them-selves. He then dealt with the . history of the country,within the past sixty or seventy years, and showed that ithad many changes of government, the monarchical formsucceeding the republican in regular succession; that thereligious orders had been banished several times, and theChurch stripped of its possessions. The conditions obtain-,ing in Portugal at the present time showed that history rwas once more repeating itself in the Iberian Peninsula.On the motion of Mr. E. W. Spain, seconded by Mr. M..Rossbotham. a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to FatherO’Neill for his instructive paper. Father O’Neill, in reply-ing, impressed on members the necessity of increasing themembership by getting their friends to join the club. About *a dozen new members were elected, and six candidates pro-posed for membership.

St. Joseph’s Hall was crowded on Friday evening whenan entertainment was given in aid of the funds of theChristian Brothers’ Athletic Clubs. Apart altogether .fromthe merit of the performers, an entertainment for such apopular object would be sure to attract a large audience,'but m this instance the excellent programme submittedwas in itself sufficient attraction. Nearly every item onthe programme was encored," and in all instances theperformers responded to the recalls. Songs were contri-buted by Misses Violet Fraser, A.T.C.L.,; K. , Black, andJessie McNee, and Messrs. J. Leech and E. J. Mee. MissQueenie Foster contributed a pianoforte soio, ‘ Study Dminor,’ and Miss H. K. "Walker/ 1 L.A.8., a

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‘ Fantasie Ballet,’ both of which were played . with much;artistic skill. Miss Ethel Churchill was very successfulin her musical monologue. Mr. T. P. Laffey recited Brac-ken’s ‘Not . understood,’ for which he was recalled, asimilar compliment being paid Mr. J. Deaker for hishumorous selection. A very . fine instrumental quartet was ;given by Messrs. Schnack, Laidlaw, I). Whelan, and J. A.O’Brien, of the Kaikorai Band. The opening number of-the programme was given by the Christian Brothers’ choir,under Brother Cusack, their contribution being u the •bracketed items, ‘0 Signore’ (Verdi) and ‘Gloria’ (Mozart)..Miss C. Hughes, played the greater part of the accompani- .ments during the evening. Just before the final item1

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916 NEW ZEALAND TABLET Thursday, Mat 18, 1911.

CATHOLIC CLUBSHOKITIKA.

(From the club correspondent.)The first of the fortnightly euchre tournaments under

the auspices of, the Catholic Club was held in the roomson Tuesday evening, the 9th inst. There was a goodattendance, about fifteen tables being occupied. After avery exciting contest, the lady’s prize fell to Mrs. Coulson,and the gentleman’s prize to Mr. L. Dwan.

The quarterly Communion of the club members tookplace on last Sunday morning, and was very largelyattended, about sixty members approaching the HolyTable. After Mass those present adjourned to the clubrooms, where breakfast was partaken of. Much credit is'due to the committee, and also to the assisting ladies(Misses M. Bourke, J. O’Connor, and E. Harvey), for the•plendid manner in which the arrangements were carriedout. ’ V -

THAMES.(From the club correspondent.)

May 11.The annual general meeting of the Thames Catholic

Club was held in the club rooms on Wednesday, 10th inst.The annual report and balance sheet were- read. The chiefconsideration of the meeting was the unsatisfactory stateof the finances. It was resolved to adopt certain measuresto relieve the financial stress. The formal opening wasfixed for 23rd inst. Several new members were elected.The following were elected officers: —Patron, Very Rev.Monsignor O’Reilly, V.F.; president and chaplain, Rev.Father Tigar, 0.P.; vice-presidents Dr. Lapraik, Messrs.A. Myers, M.P., J. Inglis, J. Quinn, J. Cream; workingvice-presidents—E. Kenny, W. Meehan; executive—J. Con-nolly, J. F. Twohill, A. Coakley, J. Crean, F. Lowson, E.Rice, H. Damn, C. Coakley; hon. secretary, II McDonnell;assistant secretary and treasurer, C. Hanson; hon. auditor,D. Twohill.

The first step in the direction of forming ladies’ hockeyclubs this season was taken last Monday evening, when awell-attended meeting of Catholic young ladies decided toform and enter two teams (Thursday and Saturday after-noon teams) in the competition which the Hockey Asso-ciation is endeavouring to establish. The election of officersresulted as follows;—Patron, Rev. Father Tigar, O.P. ;

president, Air. G. Hanson vice-presidents Messrs. A.Coakley, J. Connolly, J. F. Twohill, F. Lowson, and W.Gill; executive, Misses Foy, M. Lynch, V. Twohill, T. Mel-lett, C. Foy, A. Corbett, R. Dunbar; hon secretary, MissD. Moran; hon. treasurer, Miss N. Coakley; hon. auditor,Miss A. Mcllott.

QUEENSTOWN.(From the club correspondent.)

May 6.There was only a moderate attendance of members

at the opening of the St. Joseph’s Literary and DebatingClub on Thursday, May 4, when the question, Shouldbachelors be taxed?’ was debated. The debate was mostinteresting, and some most creditable speeches were de-livered, the affirmative side winning by the narrow marginof two points. The programme for next evening is a paperby the Rev. Father O’Donnell on ‘Home Ride,’ and also apaper by Mr. Mulgan.

May 13.There was a fair attendance of members at the meeting

of the St. Joseph’s Literary and Debating Club held inthe schoolroom on Thursday evening. The programme forthe evening was a paper by the Rev. Father- O’Donnell,and one also by Mr. R. Mulgan. The Rev. Father O’Don-nell gave a most interesting paper on ‘ Home Rule,’ deal-ing with the history of Ireland since it had its own Par-liament up to the present day. Mr. Mulgan contributeda most interesting paper on the subject, ‘ Is compulsorymilitary training a sound national policy?’ Both writerswere awarded a hearty vote of thanks. The followinggentlemen will take part in the debate, 4 Should Catholicschools receive State aid?’:—Affirmative—Messrs. Gavin,Fitzpatrick, and 0. Mcßride; negative Messrs. Mulgan,Shepherd, and D. Mcßride.

CHRISTCHURCH.(From the club correspondent.) s

May 3.The usual weekly meeting of the Catholic Club was held

in the club rooms on Tuesday evening, May 2. Mr. J. R.Hayward (president) was in the chair, and there was agood attendance of members. Now that the holidays areover, we may look forward to large attendances at theweekly meetings. The delegates to the recent FederationConference held in the club rooms at Easter gave an ac-count of the proceedings. The president reported that hehad attended a preliminary meeting to arrange for thevisit of the Home Rule delegation, the members presentreceiving the president’s remarks with great enthusiasm;and those present, together with nearly every other memberof the club, will be found willing workers in the greatcause.

It was decided to have a debate with the X.Y.Z. Clubabout the middle of June. A very strong team will beput forward to uphold the honor of the club. The seriesof debates (inter-member) arranged for the winter seasonis already creating great interest.. The club intends holding a concert shortly, with theobject of raising funds to wipe off the club’s overdraft. Astrong committee of ladies will be formed, which shouldassure the success of the venture. The item on the syllabusfor the evening was an impromptu debate, those takingpart being Messrs. Rowe, Healey, Dennehy, Murphy,MoKeon, Beveridge, Harbison, Tullock, McNamara, andDobbs. A very interesting list of subjects was debated,and a most enjoyable and instructive evening was spent.

May 10.The usual weekly meeting of the- Catholic Club washeld on Tuesday evening. May 9, the item on the syllabusbeing a card and billiard tournament. There was a splen-did attendance of club members and several intendingmembers. Owing to a very large entry for the billiardportion of the programme, the final was not played until

a very late hour. It is evident that the club is goingto have some big musters during the winter evenings, andthe management arc to be congratulated on the mannerin which the business of the club is being conducted, boththe literary and social items receiving careful attention.

The forthcoming visit of the Home Rule delegates isarousing great interest in club circles, and the memberswill not be found wanting when the time arrives for assist-ing the great cause.

The club’s concert, which, by the way, promisesto provide one of the finest entertainments heldin Christchurch for a long time, has been definitely fixedfor August. The success of club members at the recentcompetitions is very grati/ying to the club, those takingpart on behalf of the club carrying off two firsts and asecond, thus giving much-needed financial assistance to thefunds. Judging from what the writer saw of the compe-titions, there should not be any difficulty in securing agreat number of firsts at the next competitions.

OAMARU.(From the club correspondent.)

The annual general meeting of St. Patrick’s Club washeld on May 1, there being a full attendance of members,presided over by the president (Mr. T. O’Grady). Theprincipal business was the adoption of the report andbalance sheet and the election of officers for the ensuingyear. '[’he club’s finances were shown to be in a soundcondition, and the membership very satisfactory. Theoutgoing officers did not stand,for re-election, and the fol-lowing were elected for the current year;—Patron, RightRev. Monsignor Mackay, V.G.; president, Mr. J. Cagney,senr. ; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. G. Grave, P. C. Hjorring.P. Kelly, and F. J. Mulvihill; chaplain, Rev. FatherFarthing; auditor, Mr. J. Breen ; secretary, Mr. W. Col-lins; treasurer, Mr. George Cartwright; executive, Messrs.F. Ongley, M. J. Hannon, J. J. O’Connor, J. Saunders,Jas. Molloy, J. .Roxburgh, and J. Birss. After routinebusiness had been transacted, the opening date was left tothe executive. A vote of thanks to-the chairman concludedthe meeting.

ONEHUNGA.(From our club correspondent.)

May 1.The half-yearly meeting of the Onehunga Catholic Clubwas held in the club rooms last Sunday after the 10 o’clockMass. There was a good attendance of members. Thesecretary read the report and balance sheet, which showed

the club to be in a flourishing state both financially andnumerically. The following officers were elected for theensuing term : —Patron, his Lordship Bishop Cleary chap-lain, Very Rev. Father Mahoney; president, Mr. A. J.Martin; vice-presidents, Messrs. B. McLaughlin, J.P., andI). I. Williams; secretary, Mr. J. E. Dempsey; assistantsecretary and treasurer, Mr. J. Kennedy; auditors, Messrs.H. Thoihson and J. P. Boland; custodians,, Messrs. A. V.Patten, K. Bay, and V. McGuire. A hearty vote of thankswas accorded to the retiring president (Mr. B. McLaugh-lin, J.P.) and officers for the able manner in which theyhad carried out their duties.On Thursday evening the club made a start with thesyllabus for the winter session, the item being an open-night to the members and their lady friends. A veryenjoyable time was spent, and during the evening thepresident presented the diplomas of merit won by Mr. A.V. Patten and Mr. J. P. Boland.The many friends of the club’s popular secretary (Mr.

Jos. Dempsey) will regret to learn that he at present liesseriously ill in an Auckland hospital, after having under-gone an operation for appendicitis.

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Irish NewsARMAGH— Town Tenants’Movement

At a meeting of the executive of the Town Tenants’League in Dublin, a most satisfactory report was read ofthe remarkable progress made by the town tenants move-ment in Portadown. Since the opening meeting, whichwas addressed in that town last summer by Mr. Briscoe,over 500 members had been enrolled. The branch had re-turned ; six members to the local Council, and, as a result,one hundred houses were how about to be erected underthe Housing Act. The movement had brought togetherall classes in the town, and all were enthusiastic in work-ing for the common good. Similar reports were read fromother centres as to the progress the movement was makingin the North. ' ( V; V; !; f •

CLARE—The Grand Cause of NationalityIn sending his annual subscription to the Parliamen-

tary Fund the Bishop of Killaloe writes as follows to Mr.W. H. K. Redmond, M.P. ‘l enclose with great plea-sure a cheque for £lO, my subscription to our Parliamen-tary Fund. With the prospects of Home Rule, now .sobright— and even its most bitter opponents regard its con-cession in the near future as a matter of course, the coun-try is at last in a clear position to appreciate the wisdomof maintaining her Parliamentary Party as she has donefor so many years independent and unbroken, regardlessof either cost or sacrifice. And it must be said that thatParty has served her faithfully and well, and has steeredthe grand cause of nationality through a series of greatdifficulties and discouragements to its present hopeful out-look with consummate ability.’

CORK—Evidence from the pastMr. Augustine Roche, M.P. for North Louth, is one

of the Irish Nationalists accused of malevolent hatred oftheir Protestant fellow-countrymen and of sinister designsupon Protestant lives and properties (remarks the IrishWeekly). So long ago as 1893 Mr. Roche was Mayor ofCork. During that year the late Right Rev. Dr., Gregg,Protestant Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, was chosenArchbishop of Armagh. A congratulatory resolution wasunanimously passed by the Cork Corporation and forwar-ded to the Primate-Designate. In reply Mr. AugustineRoche received the following letter from Dr. Gregg:— ‘Mydear Mr. Mayor,— have written to the Town Clerk thank-ing him for the copv of the resolution which was so gene-rouslv passed on Friday, and requesting .him to conveymy thanksr 'ito c you arid'" to the members of the Council.Allow mo to express to you personally how much I feelyour kindness in the matter, and my sense of the happyrelations which it has been my good fortune to have withvou. ;w I shall never forget the many kindnesses which Ihave received •in Cork from its generous people. I am,mv . dear Mr. Mayor, yours very faithfully,—Robert S.,Cork, Cloyne, and' Ross, Archbishop-Elect.’ The memberfor Louth recalls this incident because he has been singledout for special attack as a ‘ bigot.’

,It is a testimony,

as from the grave, to the kindly state of feeling that pre-vails amongst Irish communities outside a few Ulster dis-tricts. ; ~

A Peculiar Brand of NationalistMr. Moieton Frewen’s election for an Irish Nationalist

constituency at the bidding of -the, gentleman who pro-claimed the Irish Nationalist Party unworthy of thecountry’s confidence, was so novel and remarkable an ex-periment that, our interest in the career of the member forNorth-east Cork needs no excuse. Mr. Frewen (says theBelfast Irish News) Was'an English Tory. He came fromAmerica to support Mr. lan Malcolm at the General Elec-tion; and Mr. Malcolm had been for years the most inde-fatigable English libeller of Ireland. Red-hot from Mr.Malcolm’s platform, he was whisked to N.E. Cork by Mr.William O’Brien, and successfully dumped on that con-stituency; * Then he went back to America, where it issaid he tried to collect money for the support of Mr.O’Brien’s ‘ cause ’ at the same time that he preached thenecessity for cutting off Ulster from Ireland. Returningfrom America, the ‘representative’ of Nationalist N.E.Cork took his seat amongst the Unionist members of theHouse of Commons. Now we find the following convincingitem of news in an English provincial journal, the Boinne-mnutji Daily Echo, whose London correspondent writes:‘Speaking of the O’Brienites, may I mention a curiousfact which has not, I think, been noticed. It will beremembered. that, very much to everyone’s surprise, Mr.Moreton Frewen, an Englishman, with American and Irishconnections,' was nominated at the last moment and elec-ted unopposed for North-East Cork as a supporter of Mr.O’Brien. Mr. Frewen is a Federalist, and was at onetime suspected of being ! the ’ author of the “Pacificus ”

letters 7in the Times. The interacting fact , has ? beenbrought to my notice that he was “ paired ” on Wednesdaywith Mr. Hamar.Greenwood (Liberal). This means thatMr. Frewen ranks himself with the Opposition. -No IrishNationalist has before been paired against the Govern-ment. What Mr, O’Brien has had to say in the matterjs not known.’

DUBLINA Successful Institution f ?

An interesting report is that issued by the IrishCatholic Church Property Insurance ’ Company, Limited,of ; which the following is a summary:— general "re-venue of the company for 1910, comprising net incomefrom fire premiums £4582 15s 6d, interest and dividendson investments £1144 14s 9d, and transfer fees £2 25.6d,amounted to £5729 12s Bd. The general expenditure(1) ! Net fire losses, £1196 16s 2d (2) expenses of manage-ment, £1037 9s 8d; and (3) directors’ fees, £250, was£2484 5s lOd, leaving a surplus of £3245 6s lOd. Out ofthis surplus £IOOO has been appropriated to the : regulardividend of 5 per cent, per annum on the paid-up capital;of , £20,000. The directors recommend that the balance of£2245 6s lOd be allocated as follows: (1) £1245 6s l.Od tocredit of the fire insurance fund (2) the residue of £IOOOto the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, as pro-vided by Article 90. , ■ ■ v /■ -i’ 3

FERMANAGH—New Hospice at Lough Derg : '

In Lough Derg a new hospice, which will accommodate,over 200 women pilgrims, is in course of erection. ■' ' The 1foundation stone has been blessed by Very Rev. CanonKeown, P.P., V.G., Enniskillen, and the hospice will beunder the patronage of St.* 1Patrick and the Blessed Virgin^GALWAY—Death of a Canon

Irishmen everywhere (writes a Dublin correspondent)will learn with regret of the death of Very,, Rev. CanonDooley, P.P., V.F., which took place in Galway on March22, in the 75th year of his age. Deceased, who spentmost of his ministerial career in the City of the Tribes,.,was beloved by people of all classes' and creeds. He' hadalmost completed . fifty years in the priesthoo ■ and pre-parations were on foot to celebrate his golden jubilee. Ata meeting held a few weeks ago with the object of raisingfunds for this purpose, the Rev. J. Fleetwood Berry, 8.D.,Protestant rector, said there were often questions on which,he and Canon Dooley took opposite views,-but during thetwenty years that he had been living in Galway they had?never had a personal difference, and he could say with allsincerity that he had found in Canon Dooley at all times akind and courteous Christian genternan, anxious to treatthose who did not agree with him with courtesy and con-sideration'. ;

The Bishops of Clonfert’s AppreciationThe Bishop, of Clonfert, in sending a subscription to

the Parliamentary Fund, wrote as follows : —

‘ I have greatpleasure in sending you a small contribution (£5) towardsthe Party funds. I only regret that the amount I canafford is anything but commensurate with the tremendousissues that are now at stake. Apart, however, from the.overshadowing question of Home Rule, I feel bound onmany grounds to support a United Parliamentary Party;To omit other reasons, the educational wants of the country,are in urgent need of redress. The support of secondaryeducation has become a heavy tax on the people of thisdiocese, and there are several places where the erection ofnecessary primary schools has heen long delayed owing tothe parsimony of the Treasury. I have no doubt of theability and zeal of the present Party to take care -of allthe interests of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament; andhence it is only in discharge of what I consider a dutythat I am sending you this small contribution.’KERRYAddress of Congratulation

A remarkable public demonstration was held at Brosnathe other day, when an extremely large crowd-of, people,irepresentative of Brosna, Knocknagoshel, Mountcolhns,and Abbeyfeale, assembled at the presbytery, Brosna, insupport of an address of congratulation to Father Arthur(now Canon) Murphy, P.P., on his elevation to a.Canonryof the Kerry diocese.

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LOUTH—Peaceful Condition of the County ~j

.;; Dundalk Quarter Sessions were opened on, March 27by County l Court Judge C. Green, K.C. His Honor, inhis address to the Grand Jury stated that there was onlyone case to go before them. As there were no cases to;go before him at Drogheda the previous week, he thoughtnobody could feel otherwise than satisfied at the peacefulcondition of the county. The case to go before them wasnot of a serious nature. The Grand Jury returned nobill in the case, and the accused was discharged. 7 ' ‘ ; i/5

TIPPERARY—-Appointed Member Cathedra! ChapterThe Very Rev. Dr. O’Neill, of Lattin and Cullen, has

been appointed Canon and a member of the CathedralChapter of the archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. Foryears. Canon O’Neill was Professor of Dogmatic and MoralTheology in St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, when heV, was.the daily associate of his. Grace the Most Rev.: Dr. Leahy.-The Very Rev. Dr. O’Neill left Thurles College for the im-portant curacy of Tipperary. He threw himself heart'and soul into the work there, and his work and thrilling

; eloquence will be remembered there for many a long , day.To mark their appreciation of him, the people of Tipperarypresented (him, on two occasions with magnificent testi-monials. Canon O’Neill has been ministering as parishpriest of Lattin and Cullen for twenty-five years. Thework he has done since lie was appointed parish priest of

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Lattin .and Cullen is worthy of him; He has built sixor eight up-to-date schools. Ho has, at great expense,beaut'fied the churches, and he has ameliorated the con-dition of his parish and of his people in every way, sothat it is easy to understand the joy of the people of Lattinand Cullen at the good news they have of -; their devotedpastor. s‘ 1 Canon O’Neill made his preliminary studies atthe Abbey School,- Tipperary. _ He was for a short time astudent of Thurles College, where he read - with distinction.He won ; other honors, as well as the degree of Doctor ofDivinity, in the Gregorian University, Rome, where he wasa graduate for some years. Canon O’Neill is a Bachelor, ofCivil and Canon Law of ; the Sapienza University, Rome,and he is a priest of exceptional erudition and. culture.He speaks many languages, and he has been in ’manylands.Fallen into Abeyance

-(The custom of ‘ drowning the shamrock ’ seems to havefallen into. abeyance in Ireland. . At the St. Patrick’sDay celebration in Clonmel (remarks the Sacred HeartBeview), Archdeacon Flavin said that there had not beenin the town that day the spectacle of an intoxicated manor woman. And they are no longer hanging men andwomen for the wearing of the green over there, either.The Nationalist of Clonmel says that ‘ shamrock and greenfavors ere universally worn, not alone by civilians, butby the soldiers of the garrison. The men of the Royal IrishRegiment, as usual, wore the triple leaf in their helmetsat the church parade, and were accompanied to Mass atSS. Peter and Paul’s by the regimental band playingspirited national airs.’ Dublin papers note the few casesof drunkenness to be seen in the streets of that city onSt. Patrick’s Day, and a Cork journal says; ‘lt is gratify-ing to be able to record that throughout the day there wasin the streets of the city, and in public places, a completeabsence of; drunkenness, not even a single instance beingobservable.’

? GENERALA Convert to Home Rule .

Amongst the subscribers to the Irish Parliamentaryand National Fund whose names appear in this week’slist ,is General Alfred Turner (says the Irish Weekly ofApril 1). Within the memory of many men who are notyet entitled to reckon themselves amongst the greybeards.General Turner was regarded as one of the last individualsin Ireland likely to figure as a generous subscriber to aNational Fund. He is a native of London. After morethan twenty years’ service in the Army, he was appointedA.D.C. and Military Secretary to the late Lord Spencer,then Viceroy of Ireland. Thenceforward —with a brief

—Colonel Turner, as he .was at the time, main-tained an . official connection with this country for. manyyears. He was Commissioner of Police’—which meantdespotic rulerin Cork, Kerry, Clare, and Limerickduring the ‘ hottest ’ period of the Plan of Campaignstruggle; and it was during this experience of Irelandfrom thirty to twenty . years ago that the able soldier andresolute executive officer arrived at the polifcal convic-tions which are responsible for his subscriptions year afteryear to the funds of the national movement. • By thewr ay, General Alfred Turner is really a more brilliant,experienced, and resolute warrior than either ColonelMcCalmont or Captain Craig.

The Hibernian Society

Bro. J. J. Massey, District President, in the course ofhis address at the annual Communion breakfast of theHibernian Society in Sydney on Sunday, April 30, gavesome interesting particulars regarding the progress of thesociety in the Sydney District, and also throughout Aus-tralasia. He said that the total membership of the societywas 9965, a net increase for the year ofof 1461. The total funds at the end of last year were£63,097, a net increase for the year of £6362. Last year£9119 was spent for medical attendance and medicine,£5610 was paid to sick members, £4442 was expended onmanagement and sundries, the funeral allowances con-sumed £BIO, and hospital and other funds £ll6B. Thefunds invested on mortgage were £48,136, which was earn-ing an. average interest of 5£ per cent. The total assetswere £211,261, and the liabilities £204,776, the surplus ofassets over liabilities being £6485. The society was quiteas widely established in the other States of the Common-wealth,. also New Zealand. The total membership inAustralasia was 39,200, the funds -.being £265,509. InAmerica and Great Britain the society had 370,000 mem-bers. The great progress the society had made in NewSouth Wales during the past ten years was shown by thefact that, whereas in 1900 there were 40 branches, 2599members, and funds amounting to £15,076,

_there were 167

branches at the end of 1910, the membership was 9965,and the funds had increased to £63,095~an increase of127 branches, 7366 members, and £48,022 in funds. Sincethese figures were compiled four new branches had, beenadded, with an addition of 500 members, ;

People We Hear About• Archbishop ' Colgan of ’Madras, whose ‘ death we

chronicled recently, was said to have been the oldest Bishopin the British: Empire. He was "eighty-six years old atthe time of his death.

Mr. Will Crooks, M.P., got a bunch of shamrock onSt. Patrick’s Day from the grave of Michael Davitt andgave a piece of it to Mr. Birrell, iwho 'expressed a wish towear a spray of it when he heard whence it came.

Among the guests at a dinner party recently givenby King George V. at Buckingham Palace, London, washis Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Re\.Dr. Bourne. His Grace was the only prolate present.The other guests were chiefly political leaders. •

Mr. John Dillon, M.P., who was born in 1851, waseducated in the Catholic University in Dublin, where hedistinguished himself in mathematics, and it is not gener-ally known that he is a fully qualified member of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Ireland. Mr. Dillon first entered'Parliament in 1880 as member for County Tipperary, andhas held his present seat for East Mayo since 1885. Hemarried a daughter of the late Chief Justice Mathew in1895, and became a widower in 1907. To write a historyof Air, Dillon’s public career would bo to write Ireland’;?history for the last quarter of a century, so deeply is hisname engraven over it. “

. WA few weeks ago Sir Charles Santley was seventy-

seven. The.grand old man of song, who knew Thackerayand Dickens in their prime, for whom Gounod wrote oneof his finest songs, and who sang with Jenny Lind, willshortly experience a pleasure such as has fallen to the lotof few singers indeed. At the forthcoming benefitmatinee which Lady Knill has delighted to organise in his.honor, and to which the King and Queen and the wholeDiplomatic Corps have given their patronage, he will ap-pear once more in an opera part which he first assumed.half .a, century /ago, when scarcely another singer of to-day,. Patti excepted, was even cradled.

It.is stated that Mme. de Navarro, once the famous'Catholic actress, Miss Mary 'Anderson, the most popularfigure on the stage in the eighties, is soon to renew herconnection with the theatres— time as an authoress.In collaboration with Mr. Robert S. Hichens, she has writ?'ten a five-act play. Mme. de Navarro, who is now 52 years'of age, though she doesn’t look it, is a Californian, and ;of German and English descent. / She was educated bythe Xlrsuline Nuns. Her first appearance in London wasmade in 1883, her chief successes being as Juliet, arid; asthe Galatea of. W. S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion arid Galatea.’"A little later, in the dual roles of Hermione and Perdita,she achieved her greatest triumph. She left the Engishstage in 1888, in the height of her popularity, and in thefollowing year married AI. Antonio de Navarro, and thenforsook altogether (to use her own phrase) the 1 rush andexcitement of public life ’; nor have the most flatteringoffers tempted her away from the quietude of the Court■harm, near to the old-world Worcestershire village ofBroadway. Her beautiful voice has, however, been heardonce or twice for the benefit of Father Bernard Vaughan’sEast-End chanties. Mme. de Navarro is the author ofa book of reminiscences, published in 1896, in which shehas much to say about the men and women of her acquaint-ance in England and America—Longfellow, Tennyson,Aubrey de Vere, Newman, and Manning among the rest;

Captain the Hon. Otway Cuffe, only brother to theEarl of Desart, has been three times Mayor of Kilkenny.Ho is also president of the Ideal, branch of the GaelicLeague, and is taking a leading part ;n the cultivationof tobacco in Ireland, being, in fact, the managing direc-tor of a tobacco-growing company .in which his widowedsister-in-law, the Dowager Countess of Desart, is one ofthe principal stockholders.. This Dowager Countess ofDesart is daughter and heiress of the late Henry Bischoff-sheim, the well known London financier and owner of theLondon Daily News. Some time ago the town of Kil-kenny voted her its freedom in recognition of all the goodshe had done-for the people of the district, this being thefirst case of a woman or a member of the Jewish race everbeing honored with the freedom of a : city or town in theEmerald Isle. .The present Lord;Desart ;is now - one of theBritish members of the international court of arbitrationat The Hague, and was for many years public prosecutorHe rejoices in the. altogether appalling Christian name ofAgmondisham, which was borne by the father of the firstLord Desart and . also by the latter’s maternal grand-father Colonel Agmondisham Muscharap, ?of Cromwell’sRoundhead army, through whom lie inherited a consider-able amount of property. The Cuffes originally hailedfrom Somersetshire, but since Tudor times have beensettled in Ireland. Hugh Cuffe received a grant of sixthousand acres' in County 'Cork' from Queen Elizabeth.The honors of Lord Desart are all Irish, and do not carrywith them any seat m the House of Lords

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I would be untrue (said Mr. Birrell) to the office whichI hold if I did not say a word about Ireland. You allknow it is the fixed intention of his Majesty’s Government,if all goes well—as we think it willwith our , ParliamentBill, to proceed next session with a measure of self-govern-ment for Ireland. That is our ■ fixed determination. Itwill be the third time of asking, but many things have hap-pened since 1893. Many things have happened in Ire-land since then, and the only difficulty that I forsee ’isthat so many of our young men and eager politicians havecome upon the scene since that day that they perhapshardly realise the present position, though I am glad tothink that already many of them have cast upon one sidethe doubts and difficulties which pressed upon their pre-decessors in 1886 and 1893. Let me just enumerate

y A Few of the, Great Changesthat have since taken place in Ireland. In 1898 LordSalisbury, who had not long before declared that LocalGovernment for Ireland, the County Councils, and the like,would be a greater act of insanity even than Home Rule,proceeded in the ordinary course of a politician to givethe,country the very thing which he said would be an actof lunacy. For my own part, 1 always thought even thenthat Local Government for Ireland should have followed,and not preceded, Home Rule; and I still think so. Butthat was not the course of events, and the Tory Party con-ferred upon the tenant farmers of the South arid West ofIreland the sole and exclusive right of governing theirlocal affairs. Upon the shoulders of these men, who hadbeen hopelessly excluded from every form of government,they placed the groat burden of county administrationand local rates. These Catholics had none of them everhad a job before, for if ever a bone was thrown to a Cath-olic you may be sure it was one that had been well gnawedby dozens of Protestant dogs. The Local GovernmentBoard was almost in despair at the thought of how toteach these men how to discharge their duties. They sentdown gentlemen to instruct them how to hold meetingshow to have agendas, how to strike a rate, and how to doall the things that ■

For Centuries had been Done by Grand Juries;and had never entered into the considerations of thoselush people, who were the most tractable people in thewhole world. They set to work to learn; they managedtheir agendas, and though they occasionally ‘had livelymeetings they weren’t a, bit more lively— the lan-guage may be a little different than those you may havewitnessed in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Wo havehad an experience since 1898 an experience that I stillthipk was a dangerous one—and it has worked uncommonlywell. I will not say that it is not open to criticism Whatlocal government is not open to criticism? Even in thissublime country of ours, it is open to criticism Thevhave had their changes in Ireland, hut there is not onewho would now go back to the old form of government.A- iqoo

som( jtl!V‘U \° have happened since the Parliamenton,

1893: and that happened in 1898 by a Tory measure.then there was another measure—the great Land Pur-chase Act— Wyndham’s measure of 1903. That was avery great Act of Parliament, but it had one fault—it wason a rotten financial basis. But, rotten or not rotteni. am...glad it was carried out. Under a half of the agri-cultural land of Ireland has changed hands, and a nrencagrarian revolution lias been carried out. During’ thenext ten years it will be carried out on the entire remain-der, and Ireland will bo an agricultural country, with arace of peasant proprietors. There was but

One Great Obstacle,Mr. Birrell proceeded. The land purchase was making noprogicss in the est of, Ireland, so that the men who reallywon the victory were deprived of its fruits. He went onto describe the efforts being made in the West at presentand then turned to the University settlement. . Ho wasglad to be able to say that the University settlement hadbeen a great success, not only in the University of Dublinbut also where it was most criticised—in the new Univer-sity of Belfast, i , There, die was glad to think, Catholicswere flocking m large numbers to the truly undenomina-tional Diversity, there to study side ,by side with the Pro-testants of Belfast. That would do more than all the Actsand all the Bills and speeches to reconcile the two branchesof the population. ' The Catholics of Belfast were just asproud of Belfast as were the Protestants, as eager to seethe great city prosperous, healthy, and wealthy The Uni-versity question had stood long in, the wav'of an Irishsettlement. Now it had been settled, and he thoughtthey might contemplate, and lie looked forward to the-timenot at once but in time, when they would sec the Protes-tants and Catholics of .Ulster living together as happily andpeacefully as the corresponding population in the '"featprovince of Quebec. With regard to the fears of Irelandmaking overtures for foreign’friendship, be asked: Whowould the Catholics of Ireland ally themselves to ? Was it

• with France? Was it with the Germans? Nobody needdread a fleet of Irish Dreadnoughts with strange Gaelicnames in the Channel,. Those notions, he thought, haddisappeared. But two bugbears will remain, Mr. Birrellproceeded, and it would be idle to deny their existence.One is religion, -or what is called religion. -It is not thereligion of the River Jordan, but the religion of the RiverBoyne. The other difficulty is money. I don’t say so-called money. v Well, these are the undoubted difficultiesstanding in our path. What docs the religious difficultyreally vmean? .Whether you like it or not—and there isno better Protestant in this room than I am—the greatbulk of the Irish people belong to what used to be calledin this country the old religion. All your ancestors be-longed to it; but we have altered and changed our minds,'and, I think, for the better. But the Irish people havenot changed their minds. The Catholic religion plays s anenormous part in their lives. Their little way-wornchapels where they were taken by their mothers to theirFirst Communions, their affection for their priests whohave stood by them in many a hard battle, their tempersand disposition and whole course of events up to the presentday have. made and confirmed’ them Roman Catholics, andyou won’t alter it. Nobody now attempts to alter it.There was a time when there was a great deal of prosely-tism in Ireland, but there is none of it now. They havecome to regard the difference between Protestant and Cath-olic as a generic- difficulty, as between a horse and a cow.The time may come when they may think these things havean intellectual and moral basis, but you may take it fromme that the Catholic religion will prevail for .many a longday to come, and everything we have done hitherto has hadthe effect of rivetting it upon them even stronger thanotherwise it might have been. Was no Catholic country:,which contained any Protestants in it at all qualified tohave a great measure of government such as had been con-ferred on Canada and South Africa ? They might nothave it because they were not fit for it, and would use itinjuriously against their Protestant fellow-countrymen.That was the argument arid course of reasoning which wasnow advanced against the whole case of, Home Rule. Whenthey got, as they soon should, into the thick of it, thesewere the arguments that would be used.. He did not knownow far they would be used in the House of Commons, butthey would be used on every platform. The Catholicswere not fit to be entrusted with property or patronage in;any shape or form. I can only give that statement adenial, continued Mr. Birrell. lam not saying for amoment that every Protestant or Catholic is ‘ absolutely tobe trusted.’ I don’t think they are. There may be casesof injustice, of favoritism shown here and there, but tosay the Catholics of Ireland are unfit to exercise localgovernment because a portion of the inhabitants are Pro-testants, is a libellous statement. We don’t find it in

; the South and West of Ireland. 1 have visited all themain towns and villages in these places, I have seen-Pro-testant and Catholic churches side by side; I have hadmeals at the same , table with Catholics and Protestants,and if you impose on Ireland a responsibility before theface of Europe, you can dismiss from your minds anynotion that their environment will unfit them for local-government.

The Other Difficulty is Money,and all I have got to say upon that is that you must ascer-tain first of all what justice requires. After having ascer-tamed that, if you are disposed to be generous, why somuch the better. Wealthy menl have often noticed it,not being one myself—to save bother, say, ‘ Let us get ridof this claim of yours; we won’t take any account; here’sa fiver for you.’ AA ell, if the account had been taken, theman would have found he was entitled to £5 Is 6d. Whereis the generosity? You haven’t even been ' just. • There-fore, I say, first-find out how the account stands. Ascer-tum strictly and literallyhaving regard to the treatyAct of Union and what has happened -incewhat justicerenin to the last penny, and don’t say we will deal inround figures. That means that the man who has gotto pay goes off with the out figure. Having found out $

what justice requires, let generosity tinge the gift if youlike. If this country thinks it worth while to pay ’,ai; littlemore so much the better for Ireland and for England, too.I do not think the monetary difficulty, though one requiringthe most careful consideration, presents anything like areal obstacle in the great task before us. My heart is inthis job, and, difficult as it ; may be, we shall be able tocarry it through, and when once we have Ireland pacifiedwe shall occupy for the first time since Henrv 11. went ' there"'a proud position which will enable us,. with the UnitedStates of America, to take a stronger line, arid establisha more real friendship than is at present possible. Butwo shall have done something better than that.,, We. shallhave removed from our minds a memory which cannot" bebut a shame and disgrace. v It is a lamentable and melan-choly thing for anyone travelling through Inland seeingmen and women, keen, qualified, and teachable, with: allthe part they have played in our battles - and Empirewinning, to think that we have to cut such a poor figurein Ireland. It can be remedied, but only by, strength 'andcourage, and also by consenting5 (which is a’ difficult thingfor us Proud Protestants) that the Catholic people havetheir own way and: by recognising that everybody ; cannotbe cast m the same mould. We can’t all of ns bePrimitive '

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NEW ZEALAND TABLETThxjesday, May 18/ 1911. 925ST. JOSEPH'S MEN'S CLUB, DUNEDIN

111 The? annual meeting of the' St. Joseph’s ; Men’s Clubwas held in St. Joseph’s Hall on Monday evening, May 8.Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., presided, and there was anattendance of about , fifty members. r ;

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in presenting its report, it is your committee’s pleasantduty to congratulate members on the success of the year’swork, and to express the hope that the session which isabout to commence . will show the marked progress whichdistinguished the last year from its predecessors. In everydepartment of the club’s activities the members displayedan enthusiastic interest. The large number of youngmembers was most gratifying, and, it is safe to prophesyjudging by their initial efforts—that they will, during thecoming session, do much to advance the club and?place itin the position which such an institution deserves tooccupy in the life of our Catholic young men. The averageattendance for the year was thirty-five. Twenty-one meet-ings were held, seven being devoted to debates and im-promptu speeches, four to lectures, three to readings, oneto Shakespearian reading, and six to musical: and socialevenings. The debates were highly successful, and theadvancement made during the year was plainly manifestedby the club’s victory on two occasions against the SouthDunedin Club, The younger members made especiallygood progress, and it is sincerely to be hoped that they willcontinue to take an active interest in i what is * to us asCatholic young men the most valuable of all the club’sdepartments. We are of necessity brought into touchin offices and factories with those of different faiths, andthough happily the days of religious bitterness are dyingout, there are still many in whose minds religious prejudiceand animosity still linger, and who are ever ready to sneerat the principles and practices of our religion. The Cath-olic young man who is forced—owing to a .lack of facilityin expression and discussionto stand by unable to defendhis faith is a disgrace to himself and his religion. ’ In ourdebating branch these deficiencies are remedied, and therules of right discussion inculcated. There is no reasonwhy our Catholic .young men should not take their properplace in public affairs; and here, more than in any otherdepartment of life, there is an absolute necessity for theready and fluent expression of ideas. The Glee Club wasas usual successful, and is fulfilling in an admirable mannerthe object for which it was instituted. Its members havesolved the problem, - How to succeed?’ by bringing to theirwork unbounded enthusiasm, loyalty to

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their leaders, anda capacity for determined effort'. ■ Mr. Deehan and Mr.Heley have sacrificed much of their time to forward itsinterests, and the . high state of efficiency to which theyhave assisted in bringing it does them the highest credit.The readings were most enjoyable, and .' your committeetakes the opportunity of recommending to members thisprofitable and pleasant item on-our syllabus. Clear read-ing makes for clear speaking, and the proficiency gainedby this practice will undoubtedly help debaters to a clearand. pleasant delivery. The Shakespearian reading, inconjunction with, the Ladies’ Club, was highly successful,and fully justifies a similar performance during the com-ing session. Mr. Callan’s interest is as earnest as'pre-viously, and he is deserving of thanks for the time he de-votes to the preparation of readings. The lectures' weremore than ordinarily popular, and the policy of the clubof drawing on its own members as far as possible for theseitems was amply justified by the very instructive andentertaining evenings given by Messrs. Hussey and Ross-botham. The report would not be complete without refer-ence to the work of our genial and hardworking rev. pre-sident (Father Coffey). His untiring energy, regular at-tendance, and keen and practical interest in the advance-ment of every member of the club has done much towardsthe progress that is recorded. He has been an ideal mem-ber and • an ideal president, and his popularity with themembers is a testimony of his merits in those capacities.

In conclusion your committee begs to thank membersfor the support accorded it during the year. - Prospectswere never brighter; but members must remember'thatsuccess is gained by diligent effort, and if they wish to

take advantage of the facilities for self-improvement whichthe club offers they must; develop by means of hard work.For placing these advantages within easy reach they owathe club a debt which they can best discharge by exertingtheir -influence to increase the membership.u:rr-\ 'si-ei; |...■.■Mr. E. W. Spain, in speaking to the motion for theadoption of the report and balance sheet, congratulatedthe members on the success of the work of the past year—-the success being due in a great measure to the numberof young men from the Football Club who had joined thesociety.. The success of the club during the current yearwas assured if members would strive earnestly „ and workdiligently. ;* |

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- rRev. Father Coffey complimented the secretary on hisexcellent report, and also congratulated the members "onthe success of the society during the past year. A notice-able feature of the work of the society was the,progressmade by the young members who took part in the debates.Owing to the hall being used towards the end of last yearin connection with the bazaar,, there was not so muchopportunity for social gatherings, but this would not bethe case this season. He trusted that the hopes of thesecretary, as expressed in the report, would be 'realised,and that the current session would be a very successfulone. |-- ---&• ■-; ■- ->.■.•■■ •/. '--. <? *r-k>s*& ■; f.*The report and balance sheet were then adopted. I- Mr. J. Hally read the report and balance sheet of thehall executive, which, after , a*,brief discussion, wereadopted. ■--:■■'^' 1 ' i|-

$ Before the election of officers took place Rev. FatherCoffey, Adm., who- had ..been president for the - past I sixyears, intimated that owing to his time being otherwisefully occupied, he would have to decline nomination onthis occasion. -.........

;,,.,. : - -. . 's■His Lordship Bishop Verdon is patron of the club,and the election of officers resulted as follows:—PresidentRev. Father P. J. O'Neill; vice-presidents, Rev. Fatherttey and Mr. M. Rossbotham; secretary and treasurer,Mr W. Higgms; committee, Messrs. E. W Spain JHally, T. Laffey, R. Gallagher, A. J. Ryan; auditor, Mr.1. Deehan; representatives on the hall executive, Messrs.W. Higgms, J. Hally, and E. W. Spain. S.» i |Ten candidates were nominated for membership. I

- Rev. Father O'Neill thanked the members for electinchim president, and said that he would do his best to for-ward the interests of the club. ...... ...., ...... „.._. tsaj. A vote of thanks to Father Coffev for presiding broughtthe proceedings to a close.

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The Catholic WorldCANADA

THE PAPAL DELEGATE..Monsignor Stagni, the Papal Delegate to Canada, has

arrived at Ottawa, accompanied by Monsignor Sinnott,his private secretary. He was met on arrival by the Hon.Charles Murphy, Secretary of State, Senator Cloran, andother officials, and was formally welcomed at the Basilicalater by Archbishop Gauthier and leading English andFrench Ottawa Catholics.

ENGLAND

CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN LONDON.His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, in tho

course of an address at the Church of St. Etheldreda, ElyPlace, Holborn, said that many were not aware of thenumber of Catholic places of worship in London, andforeign visitors were quite astonished at there being solarge a number in the capital of a country that was re-garded as Protestant. There were now no fewer thanninety on the north side of the Thames, and over fifty onthe south side. Each church had its particular characterand history, and each was the outcome of generosity, self-sacrifice, and devotion. Very few were erected a hundredyears ago, most of them having been built after therestoration of the Hierarchy sixty years ago. That in whichthey were assembled had a history extending over manygenerations. It stood as a monument to the devotionof their forefathers, and brought back many memories ofold Catholic England, memories that must stimulate allwho visited it and worshipped within its hallowed walls.

|; CATHOLICS AND THE EMPIRE PAGEANT.■: The fiction that the Catholics of the present day. are

not the representatives of - tho ancient faith of Englandwhich was long kept up in some quarters'no longer findsfavor amongst men of intelligence and knowledge (says theCatholic Times). Mr. Birrell reminded his audienceat Manchester the other day that their forefathersprofessed that ancient creed, and tho action of Mr. FrankLascelles, pageant master, in asking Catholics, through hisGrace the Archbishop of Westminster, to take part in theEmpire Pageant at the Crystal Palace, which will beopened in May by their Majesties the King and Queen,is another illustration of the change that has come aboutin this respect amongst non-Catholics. The scene repro-ducing the episode of ‘ the bringing of a fragment of theHoly Cross from Wales to Westminster ’ will be enactedby Catholics. To the number of four hundred they willappear in tho roles of monks, priors, and other ecclesias-tics, choir beys, knights, and soldiers. This is as it shouldbe, for only those who have preserved the traditions of thepast unbroken can enter fully into its spirit and make it,so to say, live again. The work of preparing for' thepageant will be to the Catholics a labor of love, and weeel sure that they will prove themselves equal to the in-

teresting occasion.WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL.

Slowly, like the almost imperceptible growth of an oaktree, but as surely and almost as incessantly, the greatwork of completing the vast interior of Westminster Cathe-dral proceeds. Nothing is being done in a hurry, andeven the humblest part of the manual labor is being effec-ted with painstaking care, as though each workman real-ised that he was working for posterity. At present themosaic workers are concentrating their energies on' thearched roof of the side aisle, near the chapel of the BlessedSacrament. Since the consecration of the Cathedral themarble workers, too, have added to the material enrich-ment of this stately fabric. The chapel of St. George andthe English Martyrs bears testimony to this fact. Appro-priately enough, the predominating colors of this chapelwill be given by red and white marble, 'and in the marblework at the back of the altar the shield of St. George withits red cross takes a conspicuous place. The beautifulmosaic, panel which perpetuates the memory of BlessedJoan of Arc is practically finished. All that is now want-ing is the inscription for the marble tablet beneath. Itwill be remembered that this, by no means the least lovelyfeature of the Cathedral, owes its origin to the Bishop ofClifton’s_ suggestion to the Catholic Women’s League, thatthat society should collect contributions from the womenand children of England for the specific purpose of honor-ing- the Maid’s memory in the Cathedral. Before verylong it is expected that the grilles will be finished whichwill serve to enclose the altar of St. Thomas of Canterburyin the Chantry Chapel of Cardinal Vaughan. The cost ofproviding this metal work is being defrayed by contribu-tions from the priests of England. , The. Dowager-Duchessof Newcastle is providing four heavy bronze candlesticks,which will stand at the corners of the founder’s monu-ment, while Lady Alice Fitzwilliam has presented a beau-tiful crucifix for the altar.

FRANCEWARFARE AGAINST CHRISTIANITY.

The warfare which the French Government are con-ducting against Christianity and the rights of consciencei$ becoming more and more intolerable. The plan of theenemies of religion (remarks the Catholic. Times) is to forcetheir detestable doctrines on the = children' 7in the schools.The Bishops and priests are to be persecuted when theyendeavor to protect the young. One of the books put intothe hands of the children in the Government’s primaryschools is the historical manual of Guiot, and Mane. Itis a work which by its attitude towards the Church out-rages the principle of neutrality on religious questionswhich the law is supposed to uphold. The Abbe Jacquot,parish priest of Dombasle, in the Vosges, speaking fromthe pulpit lately, said: ‘The children who do not use thecondemned book, Guiot and Mane’s Historical Manual,will make their First Communion with solemnity on EasterSunday. ' Those who use it will make their First 'Com-munion on another Sunday without any ceremonies.’ For.this notification the cure ; was prosecuted, and the Mere-court tribunal has condemned him to pay a fine of sixtyfrancs and costs or to go to gaol for twenty days. Hiswords, it was held, constituted ‘ a provocation to resista legal act of the public authority.’ The abbe has goneto prison. The duty of safeguarding Catholic childrenfrom anti-Christian teaching is one which no Catholicpriest can shirk. V *

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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HOLY FATHER.In the course of a leading article the London Saturday

Review says:‘The existing condition of Rome and theposition of the Pope are standing reproaches to Italianstatesmen and a trouble to the conscience of Europe.Fair-minded people cannot help asking themselves whetherit is compatible with the dignity of a. great , nation, orof one that claims the title', and that has the privilege;pfharboring in its capital the spiritual head of so large" apart of Christendom, to allow a deliberate policy of menaceand insult to be pursued against him by municipal 'offi-cials, if not by the direct agents of the Government. Itis not necessary to be a supporter of the Temporal Power,or even an advocate of its restoration in a very modifiedform, to understand this. Insulting speeches, the sale offilthy, libellous, and blasphemous journals, and other overtacts of hostility, to say nothing of the complaisant tolera-tion of blatant atheism, make it difficult for a great sove-reign who has any respect for the sentiments of largemasses of his own subjects to give his personal countenanceto these celebrations.’ The writer goes on to describethe members of the House of Savoy as ‘ merely exotics inRome,’ and observes that no one can believe the ItalianRoyal House feels comfortable in the existing condition ofthings. The ceremonies which it was hoped would tendto produce the impression that the present state of affairsin Italy is likely to become permanent only suggest theconclusion that until the Roman question is solved dis-satisfaction and uncertainty will inevitably prevail.

ROMETHE HOLY FATHER’S NAME-DAY.

On March 18, the eve of the Feast of St. Joseph, thename day of Pope Pius X., the Holy Father received inaudience, in his private library, the members of the Papalhousehold (writes a Rome correspondent). The - RightRev. Mgr. Billetti presented the various dignitaries tohis Holiness, and addressed a few words of greeting in hisown name, as the master of the household, and in that ofall those attached officially to the Apostolic Palaces. TheHoly Father replied briefly;

thanking all for their greet-ings. His Holiness had kind words for each of them asthey knelt to kiss his ring before leaving. The membersof the Sacred College of Cardinals also were received bythe Pope in private audience. His Eminence CardinalSerafino Vannutelli, Sub-Dean of the Sacred College, tookthe place of his Eminence Cardinal Oreglia, the Dean,offering the greetings and good wishes of the members ofthe Sacred College to his Holiness. On the Feast of St,Joseph his Holiness celebrated Mass in his private chapel,at which his sisters and a few others, together with someof the household, assisted. After the Pope’s Mass thethanksgiving Mass was celebrated, and after it had beenfinished the Pope went to his private apartments. HisHoliness’s secretaries had been busy on the day beforeand .-ill the morning, receiving telegrams and letters ofcongratulation and greetings from Prelate Princes andpersonages and societies from various parts of the world.

SPAINBENEFACTORS OF THE COUNTRY.

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At a moment when the Prime Minister of Spain wouldhave us believe the religious Orders are a burden to thecountry, it would be well if that gentleman and those whocredit him would dip into the Annual published some timeago by the Minister of the Interior there, as it contains

NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, May 18; 1911. 929some interesting information appropriate- to the crisis1 ofthe hour. This '"official, document (writes a Rome corres-pondent) deals with the1 work done for the Government andthe poor of the kingdom. There exist in Spain 606 provin-cial and municipal; --hospitals which are confided to thecharge 01 religious institutions. V;: Of these 253 belong, tothe Sisters of Charity, 24 to the-Sisters of Our Lady ofConsolation, 19 to the Carmelite Nuns, 16 to the Servantsof Mary, etc. In 111 of these establishments the servicesof the religious are entirely gratuitous; while in 208 theyare.each allowed the princely remuneration of 485 pesetasyearly (about £l6), from which food and 'clothing must beeked out. By the Little Sisters of the Poor 51 refuges arekept open and 5093 old people supported without one pennybeing asked or obtained from the Government. The Sis-ters of the Aged and Abandoned care for 3596 persons. Ipass over various other beneficent works that flourishunder the care of the religious Orders and Congregationsand come to the 5 question of education. Let it suffice tosay that the Spanish religious educate free no less /than133,991 young people without any cost to the Government.Along' with this it is worthy. of mention that fifty economickitchens established and supported,by the Spanish Govern-ment are administered gratuitously by the religious.

UNITED STATES

TWO MUNIFICENT GIFTSAnnouncement is made of two most remarkable gifts

made to the Catholic Church Extension Society, both re-ceived on the same day. One of the gifts consists of90,000 dollars in, gold bonds,: which is intended to be thenucleus for a missionary college and seminary to be estab-lished later on for the purpose of educating priests forpoor dioceses and missions of the United States. The nameof the donor has not been made, public. Almost imme-diately after the receipt of the. first donation. the societyreceived a telegram from a lady, living in the CentralWest, asking the privilege of building the twenty-fivechapels referred to in the report of the general secretaryof.' the society published in the March number of ExtensionMagazine. In publishing the report of the general secre-tary the president suggested that one person might havethe privilege of building the entire twenty-five chapelsin the diocese-of Baker City, Oregon, at a cost of 12,500dollars to ''.-donor,- the people, of course, to make up therest. A well known .Philadelphia Catholic, already agenerous benefactor, of the Church Extension Society, noti-fied Very Rev. Dr. Kelley. its president, that he would beone of ten to help raise the 12,500 dollars for the twenty-five chapels. By. return .mail he was informed of the actionof the lady referred to in the foregoing paragraph, whotelegraphed for the privilege of building all the chapels.

Ashburton(From our own correspondent.)

; . '■ May S._■

A committee lias been formed and is iow working assi-duously to give a fitting reception to the Irish delegates onthe occasion of their visit to this town.■ Falling in line with the conditions under the new De-fence Act, it is probable that a corps representative of theyoung Catholics between the ages of 14 and 18 will be formedin this town.

The usual weekly meetings of the Catholic Young Men’sClub continue to be well attended. The,: programme forTuesday week last took the form of a progressive euchretournament, the prize for which was presented by Rev.Father O’Hare. " An enjoyable tournament eventuated.Mr. I). McDonnell securing the prize. A debate— 'Willcompulsory-military training prove to the. best -interests" ofthe Dominion?’—formed the evening’s programme at theclub' meeting on Tuesday last. Mr. D. McDonnell led offfor the .affirmative, arid Mr. T. M. Bropby championed thenegative side of the question. Other member* algo ex-pressed their, views on this question, some very creditablespeeches being made. On a vote being taken the chairmandeclared it in favor of Mr. McDonnell's party.

DomesticBY iIUURBENArranging Flowers. -- U-.a 2

Hero , are some golden rules which should , he observedby those who - arrange flowers. 7 Use..; plenty of foliage;put your flowers in very lightly; use artistic glasses. Donot use more than, two, or at most three, different kindsof flowers in one vase. Arrange your colors to form abold contrast, or, better still, a soft harmony. , The - aimof the decorator should be to show, off the flowers, not thevase that contains them.

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To Mix Paints. ■ £In mixing paints, observe that for out-door work vbumust use principally or wholly boiled oil, unless it be 'forthe decorative parts of houses, etc., then mix as for indoorwork.. For indoor work us© linseed oil; turpentine, anda little dryers,’ observing that the less oil, the less willbe the gloss, and that Tor flatted white,’ etc. the colorbeing ground in oil, will scarcely require any further a deli-turn of that article, as the object is to have it dull. Thebest dryer's ’ are, litharge and sugar of lead—-the formerfor dark and middle tints, and the latter for light ones.

How to Cough. 7 7 '-V "

Few people know how to cough properly. , -In fact itnever occurs to the ordinary individual that there is aright way and a wrong way of doing it. Yet it is amatter of no small importance. If every sigh means adrop of blood out of the heart, as people say, every coughmeans some greater or Jess proportion of time knockedoft ones life. Most people cough .as--loudly and forciblyas, they can. Some, chronic coughers seem’ to feel prom!of the terrible noise they make. But it is'- rather costlynoise, for the simple reason that it tears and inflames thelungs. Ihe lungs consist ,of an extraordinarily delicatesponge-like tissue, which sometimes gets inflamed andchoked with phlegm. When we try to get - rid of thissubstance we cough. But, obviously, if we remove itviolently we must necessarily injure the delicate Inn"tissue . therefore, train yourself to cough as ' gently asposs-bie. . , . J

Fomentations. ' ■" f-Although fhe decoctions. usually employed, 'such asthat of camomile flowers or of poppyh.eads, 'are useful inaiding the warmth by their soothing or sedative influence.-jot they are secondary objects in the application of fomen-tations, the intention being to convey beat, combined withmoisture, to the part fomented. Flannel cloths, wrungoiit of boiling water by means of two sticks turned in oppo-

site directions, form the best fomentations. If they boshaken, up and laid lightly over the part, they involve a,considerable quantity of air, which, being a bad conductor,1 etains the heat in them for a considerable time. In everyprocess or fomenting, there should be two flannels, eachthree yards long, with the ends sewed together, to admitot the boiling water being wrung out of them; and the oneflagnel should be got ready whilst the other is appliedJ jie.

h ™H ,ess or the coarseness of the flannel is not a matterof indifference; the coarser it is the less readily docs?itconduct heat; thence it retains its warmth longer,"

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," Homo Curing of Bacon.

Mr. W. Smith, the pig export of the Victorian De-partment of Agriculture, gives some useful bints on thehome curing of ; bacon. - The-cutting up should be as fol-nvs: If into sides, chop the pig down the back-bone whilehanging then place each side on its hack on a table, andremove-tuo; bead, v Take the breastbone off ■ with one rib.then saw the backbone off towards the ham, take the bladeout, and trim off all loose fat., Place the sides in a ,coolplace, -snake a little salt and saltpetre over them. Letthem | remain for three or four hours in order to drain.and then place the pork on a board or table slighted tilted’so that tne drip will run into a dish. - ‘ For every HOOlb 'ofpork I Oil) of_

coarse salt, 3oa saltpetre, 21b brown smmrand 3oa -allspice are used. Hub the ingredients wolf o.ithe flesh side, placing one side‘on; top; of the other ,for 21hours; then turn sides upside down, rub well on skin sideusing liquor, in dish, and leave them lying flesh downwards!the top side on the bottom, Repeat this treatment everymorning for eight days, carefully saving the liquor andpouring it over the pork as the salt is rubbed in. ’Thenleave it for three days. Continue this process every thirdday for 21 days, and then brush the salt off and soak incold water for 16 hours. After this wash- out in hot waterclean well, and hang up and dry with clean cloth. Whenthoroughly dry rub some olive oil on the outside skin andsmoko with kauri pine sawdust (dry) for 24 hours. If itis necessary to keep the bacon for any length of time, baneit up inside a freshly-emptied flour sack, securely tied -athe neck This will allow the bacon to mature, 'and keepit.from the flies; - Tiie -hams and shoulders can be cut offafter curing is complete. * ~ir

■ Dill yon ever ston to think that no one else can reallymake or unmake you Parents and teachers may do theirbest, companions may do their worst, precept and examplegood and bad, may be forced upon yon, but it is in +hequite inner chamber of your own soul that the shaping ofyour• character is really done. Your .own hand holds thegraving tool. .

A million germs woke up one dayIntent on journeying miles away; .Cough, cold, and fever, asthma/ ;AThese germs were named by those who knew*And people grew so much alarmed '

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DEAR ME Forgotten that SYMINGTON’S COFFEE ESSENCE! Whatever shall I do? Call atthe nearest store and ask- They all keep it.

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Science SiftingsBY ‘VOLT’

An Interesting Discovery.Explorers have recently discovered a new stalactitecave in the Dachsteiu Mountains, Upper Austria, and

estimate it to be the largest of its kind in Europe. Theprincipal tunnel measures about one mile and a quarter,with numerous branchings of varying length. The cavehas two levels. In the upper, two immense ice halls werefound, having precipitous glaciers some 300 feet in length.Spread over the lower level were a series of halls, thelargest 600 feet long and 100 feet high. Amongthe paleontological specimens found were brachiopods andcave bears.

The Heating Value of Coal.Preparations are under way by the United StatesGovernment to extend the new method of coal purchasingwhich, partially operated a short while ago, has ployedits feasibility. The coal bills are paid on the basis ofthe actual heating value of the coal, deduced by tests ofsamples made by the Geological Survey. The analysisshow the quality of the fuel in terms of carbon, sulphur,volatile matter, ash and moisture, and its heating capacity

in calorics. This new basis has found favor with all par-ties concerned. 1

Through Giant Tubes Under River.0 on^nJ.igl'n,i

ic piece of engineering, costing more thano,UUU,UuO dollars is going on in the heart of Chicago sorapidly but quietly that the casual observer will not knowit until he finds himself some morning plunged from thelight of day into a world of electric light, with concretefloor, walls and ceiling all about him, and only a smallcircle of daylight ahead. With the time for completionof three under-the-river tunnels not far away, thousands01. workers for the north and west sides who ride on sur-face cars to and from their places of business will, it ishoped forget the meaning of the word * blockade,’ for itis to help do away with congestion in Chicago’s ‘loop dis-trict’ that these tunnels are being built. 1

Wireless on a Submarine., ni

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pipped with a wireless tele-apli plant, which can be used when the vessel’s hull isentirely submerged, leaving above the water only a slendermast supporting the aerial wires or antennae of the wire-less installation (says a writer in Englneerintj) Experi-ments have recently been successfully carried out with thisvessel in Torbay, the cruiser Bonaventure establishing andmaintaining coramuniactum with the D 1 when submerged.3i? ,Dl, r t eplled Il’. 01 below . the surface. The installationwas tested when the submarine was submerged to a depthjust sufficient to keep above water, the periscope, which Isseen half-way up the mast. . . The possibilities of sucha development are considerable, as not only could theactions of submarines be directed by these means fromidpS?]iJtSSeS bat a flotilla of submarines will be able tofhomci

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As Others Hear Us.himself

6 lapLperson4-a man, becomes acquainted with ishimself. He cannot see, himself as others see him norcan he even hear his own voice with the ears of the restof the world. v In proof of this latter inability, DoctorDaley, rin La Mature, describes some of his experimentsIf a person records on a phonograph a few sentences oro-nouncod by. himself, together with others by his friendsand causes the machine to reproduce these] it generallyhappens that he easily recognises his friends’ voices butnot his own. On the other hand, the friends recognisehis voice perfectly. This fact proves that everyone hourshis own voice differently from others. The difference liesin the quality of the tone. One hears his own voice notonly through the air, as do his auditors, but across' thesolid parts situated between the organs of speech andthose of

fiear TiS \ - The sound thus produced has a differenttimbre from that conducted to the ear by the air aboveTake the end of a wooden rod between the teeth and nronounco a vowel continuously. Let the other end he X?.'

»ake n between the teeth and released by another per-r* ,

at , the same time, stops his e?,rs.‘ The latterwill find that every time he seizes the rod in his teeth thesound S stronger than when it reaches the earThroughthe air above, and has a different quality. The passageS°hd body a,,K™" tsVt3 i»ten,raS

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nut receipts from the St. Patrick’s Night concertm the Melbourne Town Hall were £IOO 14s. b 1

. Rev. Father W. Gallagher has been transferred fromPerth°fn° tl‘e Cath.

edl'ai of the Immaculate Conception,fertn, to act as private secretary to Bishop Clune wholias made a number of clerical changes-and appointmentssince his consecration a few weeks ago. P

w *Th ? Rev - Father T. Robinson, of Kalgoorlie

pn? i, bT 1appointed Dean and Vicar Forane of the

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nf RBishop Chine has also appointed ArchdeaconSmyth, of. Bunbury, who has left for a holiday in EuropeDean of the South-West portion of the diocese of Perth!

m The Mother Provincial, Sister Mary Alphonsus Liguori(Dowling), and Sister Mary Stanislaus (Kavanagh) ofthe Order of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford, Vic., haveleft for Europe to attend the General Chapter of theirOrder at Angers, France.A The Right Rev Mgr. Byrne, of Goodwood, Vicar-General of the archdiocese of Adelaide, celebrated the 51stanniversary of his ordination; to the priesthood on Apriltu - His golden jubilee was celebrated with great rejoic-ing by his people and the clergy last year. The Monsignor,who is in his VBth year, is the first priest to celebrate hisgolden jubilee in South Australia. He. was ordained inAdelaide in 1860. • ; ■

At the annual Communion breakfast of the HibernianSociety in Sydney, Past District President Fox presenteda cheque tor £1250 to the Cardinal as the Hibernians’ con-tribution to the fund for the completion of St. Mary’sCathedral. Bro. Fox said that several months ago thesociety offered its co-operation in-this work, and it wasthought £IOOO would be raised. The District Board littleanticipated the most generous response made to their ap-peal by members, and he thanked them all, especially theladies, for the assistance they had given Ihe movement, frThere passed away at Goodna, Queensland, on April11, after a long illness, Father Thomas Hayes, who forthe past nineteen years had ministered to the spiritualwants of the Catholics of that town and district. The de-ceased priest was a native of Brisbane, his father in theearly days being one of the leading citizens of that city,and doing much to advance civic interests. Father Hayeswas the first pupil enrolled by the Christian Brothers inGregory Terrace College. He afterwards went to AllHallows , in Dublin, to continue his studies, and filiallyto Innsbruck, on the Tyrol, where he was ordained.Representatives of what is brightest and best in Churchand State, to the number of 500, assembled in the Cathe-dral Hall, Melbourne, on April 28, at the invitation;,: ofhis Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who, as president,

was again the host at the gathering of the members of theNewman Society of Victoria (Catholic University students)and their friends. It was a happy thought (says theAdvocate) to give to the society the name of one whoserare intellectual gifts were only equalled by his greatpersonal sanctity. His grace was the life and soul of thebrilliant gathering in the spendid hall which will standfor all time as a monument of his pastoral zeal and solici-tude for his flock. The hall itself had been carpeted andotherwise decorated for the occasion, and under the glowof the electric light looked at its best. The Archbishopreceived his guests at the main entrance to the hall, andin his purple robes looked a worthy member of the hier-archy of Mother Church.

Monsignor Bourke, of Perth, has retired from v theactive work of the priesthood in West Australia. ‘ Neverin the history of the Catholic Church in West Australia(says the IF.A. liecord) has a veteran laid rs ; de his armorwith a more creditable, a more honorable, or a more valu-able record of high and holy service, embracing over halfa century of unceasing and unselfish work. What we nowproudly term the Golden West was a despised and almostforsaken colony when Father Bourke first saw it in 1855.Fremantle and Perth were little better than rough, raw,ramshackle , villages. Young Bourke, who was then astudent, aspiring to the priesthood, was told that he mustteach school for a few years; he was quite agreeable. Inwinter and summer for three years he waded through thesands between Subiaco and Perth, and successfully fulfilledthe duties of schoolmaster at the day school, then scarriedon under _Bishop Serra, 0.5.8., in Perth. He was or-dained priest on December 18, 1858, by Bishop Serra, inthe Church of St. John the Evangelist, which still standsas the Children of Mary’s Chapel, Victoria square, Perth.After his ordination Father Bourke commenced in Perththat work, the fruits of which remain to the present time.In those early days the journeys were long and tedious,the priests few, and the work very trying; but TFatherBourke can look back with pleasure and satisfaction, on thenoble and successful part he took in pioneering . Churchwork throughout West Australia. His labors, particularlyat York, Northam, Newcastle, and the Vasse, are still re-membered, and referred to with feelings of warm appre-ciation and gratitude. He was also manager and editor,of the 1F..4. liecord for some time,

931NEW ZEALAND TABLETThursday, May 18, 1911.

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NEW ZEALAND TABLET!932 Thuesdav; May 18, 1911.

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Thursday, May 18, i9li. NEW ZEALAND TABLET 933

The Family CircleTHE CAT’S EXPLANATION

You ask the reason, little friends,Why cats don't wash their faces,

Before they eat, as children do,In all good Christian places. -

Well, years ago, a famous cat.The pangs of hunger feeling, ■Had chanced to catch a hue young mouse,Who said, as he. ceased squealing:

All gentle folks their faces washBefore they think of eating!’

And, wishing to be thought well-bred,Puss heeded his entreating.

But when ho raised his paw to wash,Chance for escape affording,

The'sly young mouse then said good-bve,Without respect to wording.

A feline council met that day,And passed, in solemn meeting,

A law forbidding any catTo wash till after eating.

JOE AND BILL

.Joe was the unhappiest boy in the world. Absolutelyalone, penniless, without.father, mother, or friend, he didnot know which way to turn or what next to do for breadand shelter. Down the avenue, . through side streets,along the river front, he had been wandering all day insearch of work—but work there was none. Nobodywanted a boy, nobody seemed to care, nobody was patientor wanted to_ listen to his story—and it was* a sad one.

It was eight o’clock at night, and Joe did not knowwhen or where he would find a place to sleep. A news-boy, bright, smiling, and looking particularly friendly,was standing near the corner lamp-post selling his latesteditions to occasional passers-by. Joe felt it might dosome good to talk to the boy, and with the lad he wassoon standing under the glaring shadows of the electriclight.

A few words and questions and Bill, the newsboy,knowing his story straight away, pledged himself Joe’sfriend. Joe’s mother, it seemed, had been dead about amonth. His father, to the boy’s knowledge, was stillalive, but in what part of the world Joe knew not. Heonly knew that Ins father drank and had left home for theWest over two years before. Since that time nothinghad been hoard of him. There were no relatives, or evenfriends in the great city who had any interest in Joe.He found employment for a few short weeks as a boot-black, but there was too much competition, and he wasforced to put away his box and brush, with no prospect ofemployment in the near future.

. Bill, the newsboy, seemed to like Joe from the first.Being only a poor newsboy, he had no command of finelanguage, but in his good blunt way lie told Joe that hemight count on him for help. Joe thought they werethe best, the sweetest words he had ever heard. Nobodyhad said as much for a long time! Taking half of thepapers from under his arm, Bill shared them with Joeand dispatched him to the next corner to try his luck atearning a few pennies. Joe sold all but two papers, andproudly handed over the receipts to Bill, who promised toprovide the cost of his lodging at the Newsboys’ Quarters—Bill’s only home.

With all his rough, neglected outward appearance,Bill was at heart a splendid lad. He had been a newsboy,so it seemed to him, ever since he could remember, andthough his companions were none too good, none too sym-pathetic, one with the other, Bill never lost a chance tohelp a friend in need, or to offer in his own rough waya word of good cheer and sympathy. He had a way ofsaying -things and doing things that made the world lookbright both to himself and to the other little urchins withwhom' he sold ‘ latest editions’ all the day long. In Joe,Bill found a companion to his liking. The two hoys hadmuch in common desired to make the best of oppor-tunities, had the' beginnings of a* love for learning, which,unfortunately, had been denied them, and hoped forbetter days coming. - ;

Bill started Joe in the paper business for himself thevery next day, and gave him all the necessary hints andtips for securing trade. Both did very veil, and the twolads became bosom friends. In the first days Joe oftenwanted to tell Bill how really grateful he was , for. the‘start’; but it was only when Bill proposed their con-tinuing to live and work and share their little profits to-gether that Joe found words in which to express himself,and then he could only, say, affectionately placing his armaround the boy’s neck; ‘You’re an all-right chum, Bill.And these words, to him, meant everything in the world.

Bach morning the two lads started out together, and begantheir daily cry of ‘Paper, sir ? Paper/ Miss?’ at thedoors of New York’s busy Grand Central Station.' c l

Now it-happened that Joe’s father, in the two years01 his aosence, had accumulated a large sum of money insome newly-worked mines of California. He had also wona contest called ‘A Miner’s Share,’ and this entitled himto the magnificent sum of 5000 dollars. Before this goodfortune came, however, and before he had . journeyed asfar West as California, he met with many unlooked-forreverses in some mines around Colorado., For months hewas too discouraged to write home, and, under the infill-ence of his companions none too worthy, he soon forgotthat somebody in the East-was patiently, hopefully waitinglor news. But the news did not come, and in the mean-time Mrs. Williamsthat was the family name— died.Having a small fortune on hand, and good prospects aheadto look forward to, Mr. Williams made up Ins mind toreturn at once to New York to make amends, in persontor Ins long silence and neglect. - - ’

n'lt was a happy man that boarded the train•at theGreat Western Depot. As the miles and miles and greatstretches of land were covered as in a flash, Mr. W’illiamsbuilt beautiful air castles for the future. What dreamshe had of what that future would be! He knew he wouldbe readily forgiven, and now., his -wife, never very strongmight have everything that money could bu.>. They wouldreturn together to the great land of opportunity, and Joetheir only child, would be sent to the best schools, to theuniversity, and educated with the best in the land! Whata picture— a paradise he was going to live in!But in less than a week—in less than an hour afterhis train arrived at the great metropolis, Mr. 'Williams’happy dreams were shattered, and he thought there couldnot be a man in the world more miserable than himself.He had learned, with sorrow we cannot tell, of his wife’sdeath, and of his boy Joe nobody knew anything.If money, if perseverance could' do anything, MrWilliams determined that ho would, find Joe, dead oralive. The thought that Joe could be found, that hemight see his son again, at least, was his only consolation.He had no faith in newspaper advertisements, and so hedecided that the best plan would be to communicate withpolice headquarters, and, for the rest, to go himself on hisown round of private inquiry and patient search.His task proved to be discouraging, fruitless, almosthopeless. Three weeks of patient watching and hopingpassed,-yet no trace of Joe could be found, and it seemedimpossible to get on any track that would ] ead to his find-ing him. Mr. W’illiams gave up in absolute despair.Returning to his hotel late one afternoon, tired after along, almost endless day, he packed his trunk, labelled- itfor transportation to California, and got his grip in readi-ness for the trip to the West, which he intended to takeon the morrow.The morrow dawned. After breakfast Mr. Williams

grip in hand, jumped on a Forty-second street crosstowncar, and in a short timo the voice of the conductor rangwith the cry: ‘Grand Central Station! Grand Central’’A glance at his watch, and Mr. Williams noted that itwas just ten. minutes before train time. He pushedthrough the standing crowd, and was soon making hisav, with long strides, towards the station steps. Inthe act of pushing one of the glass swinging doors, hecame face to face with an eager newsboy, mumbling, asnewsboys do, ‘Paper, sir, paper, sir? Latest editions,sir W orld, Sun, Times, Herald Paper, sir ’ .

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//->■. .. ‘Sun—and be quick, boy,? said the man in reply,-hand-ing the newsy a shining dime in payment. In an in-stant the lad placed the paper in his hand. In thatinstant oh! who cart realise the joy, the wonder, thomiracle?—father and son met, gazed into each other’seyes, clasped in a binding embrace, and - wept like babesbefore the hurrying throng. y

nr ™Mi-return West was postponed . for one week, for

Mr. W illiams had to purchase an outfit, not for one, butfor two boys. In his hour of jov Joe did not forget Bill—no, he would never forget him. The happy fatherlearned from his son’s lips all that the newsboy had donetor his boy—-that to him he owed his very life.and in hismind he hesitated not a moment to determine what thelads reward should be. He would make him a secondson, and Bill would bo fToe’s brother.It was agreed, to the great delight of Joe, who pic-tured with his own boyish fancy the blessings of the futureand to the infinite gratitude of Bill, whose dream, whosohope for a school education, was now about to be realised,the boyish dreams came true in fullest measure, and inschool and out, under the guidance of their devoted fatherthey now enjoy the happiest times together in the land ofthe setting sun.

AN ABSENTEE LANDLORDA ‘smart’ touristy asked the Irish driver of his carthe name of a bridge in Ireland.‘ That’s the Divil’s Bridge, sorr,’ he said. •

foreigner'what is that mountain called?’ asked theforeigner.

‘ ’Tis the Divil’s Mountain, so it is, sorr ’

raind Aml th° valley? ’ P limie<l the fare, with’the inquiring

NEW ZEALAND TABLET934 Thursday, May 18, 1911.‘ Well, that’s the Divil’s Valley, too, sorr.’The tourist, meaning to be very witty, remarked; ‘The

devil seems to have possession of a large part of thiscountry, my man.’

But an Irish jarvey is hard to beat in a wordy contest,and this carman answered with extra suavity: ‘ Why, then,sorr, so he has, but we don’t care a ha’porth for that, forwhy he’s an absentee landlord. ’Tis in England he lives!’

QUICK WIT

According to the London ‘Globe, an ancestor of Tol-stoy’s, an army officer, was an excellent mimic. One dayhe, mas mimicking the Emperor Paul to a group of hisfriends, when Paul himself entered and for some momentslooked on unperceived at the antics of the young man.Tolstoy finally turned, and, beholding the Emperor, hebowed his head and was silent. ‘Go on, sir,’ said Paul.‘ Continue your performance.’

The young man hesitated a moment, and then, foldinghis arms and reproducing every gesture and intonation ofhis sovereign, he said Tolstoy, you deserve to be de-graded, but I remember the thoughtlessness of youth, andyou are pardoned.’ The Czar smiled slightly at thisspeech. ‘ Well, be it so,’ he said.

'THE LOAD OF TWO!'

A historian of the Civil War tells of an apt reply madeby an Irishman. Jerry was sergeant in a regiment ofNew York State volunteers. He was so kindly that hewas sometimes imposed upon. Strong himself, he wasalways ready to lighten the load of a tired comrade bycarrying his haversack. One warm day during a marchan officer, who wished to see how far poor Jerry’s goodnature would go, asked him to carry his haversack for awhile.

Jery made no objection, and added one more haversackto the pack he was already carrying. Soon another officercame with a similar request, to which the long-sufferingsergeant also gave assent.

When the order, ‘ Halt, rest,’ -was heard, the menleaned for five minutes against a convenient fence, lettingthe weight of their knapsacks come on the top rail.

While they were standing in this way another officerstrolled along, and seeing the good-natured Jerry bendingunder his tremendous load, he said indignantly: ‘Ser-geant, you have the load of a donkey there!’

‘ Yes, sir,’ said Jerry, touching his cap, his face sober,but his eyes twinkling; ‘ I have the load of two.’

THE LAST WORDTwo ladles stood from the stream of promenaders a

little apart, in Hyde Park recently. They were evidentlybut flight acquaintances, and there was ‘no love lost 'between them. ‘ Well,’ said the first grand dame, ‘by thebye! 1 must really be getting on. I have to make a calloil the mater before lunch.’ The second put up her lorg-nette, and drawled Really ah— don’t mean to sayyou have a mother still living?’ The first lady laughed—a high, thin laugh, with something decidedly acid in it.

4 Oh, yes,’ she retorted upon the one who had tried to‘ take her down.’ 4My mater is yet in the land of theliving, and she doesn’t look a day older than you do, Iassure you.’

IT WAS ALSO SALT

A burly old skipper and his mate went into a rest-aurant at Southampton (says the Inglenook) and ordereda ‘ table dotty ’ dinner. The waiter, with considerableflourish, placed a plate of thin, watery-looking liquid be-fore each of them.

‘Hi, me lad, wot’s this stuff?’ shouted the captain,gazing in amazement at the concoction under his nose.

‘ Soup, sir,’ replied the waiter.‘Soup!’ shouted the old sea-dog. ‘Soup! Bill,’ turn-

ing to the mate, ‘ just think of that! ’Ere .s you and mebeen sailin’ on soup all our lives and never knowed it tillnow.’

FAMILY FUN

A Battle Game.—Shape pieces of chalk into ships,planing the bottoms evenly, and use matches for mastsand smokestacks. Mark some of the ships with blackink and leave the others uncolored. Place the rival shipsin a pan or plate close to an imaginary line, and pom-vinegar in between the forces. You will hear a sharphissing sound like escaping steqm, and the ships will atonce move forward, leaving tracks of foam in their wake.Their speed increases as they near the dividing line, andthey come together with a crash and a jump, striving topush one another out. Sometimes the battle is very ex-citing, the victorious side being the one with the mostships left in the centre. The chemistry class may be ableto explain why the ships are set in motion.-

On the LandAt the Burnside market last week (says the OtagoDaily Times) there was the big yarding of 4430 sheep, and

prices were easier to the extent of from Is to Is 6d perhead for wethers and to the extent of fully 2s per headfor ewes. Notwithstanding this weakening in the market,freezing buyers displayed no anxiety to operate. Themarket in respect of lambs was about on a par with theprevious week; About 150 head of cattle were yarded,and although the quality was not good prices were firmerthan in the previous week. Good quality bullocks werescarce, and realised up to £l3 15s per head. The yardingof cattle consisted largely of stock of inferior quality.There was a good demand for pigs, and baconers made upto 4?d per lb.

Breed and condition have an influence on the rate ofincrease in weight of pigs which are being fattened. Agreat deal, too, depends on the kind of pigs, for, needlessto say, quick-growing and strong-constitutioned animalsincrease faster in weight than those slow in maturing anddelicate in constitution. The temperature and time ofyear has its influence, and experiment shows that it takesnearly Mb more food to produce 11b of pork in winterthan it does in summer, and that pigs eat very little morein winter than they do in summer. A much larger quan-tity of food is also required to produce a pound of porkas the animal grows older, and thus it has become recog-nised that the fatting of young and immature pigs is moreprofitable than fully-grown pigs in fair condition.

The charge has been laid at my door (says the Prac-tical Dairyman) that because I admire and appreciate adairy cow-, no matter of what breed, that I have ceased tolove the Jersey. Nothing could be further from the truth.I admire and love her. I believe there is no cow so per-fect in type, so beautiful in udder, having the same ten-acity in milk, who can average so high a percentage offat, and who will make as economical a yield of a hundredpounds of butter as the Jersey cow. She breeds true totype as no other breed except the Ayrshire does She re-sponds to good care and requires it. Her globules of fatbeing large, the grain of her butter cannot be excelled.Her butter remains firmer in heat than that of any otherbreed, her milk creams readily, and there is a perfectseparation between cream and milk. As a butter-makershe is preeminent, and in her symmetry of form and beautyshe is the aristocrat of the dairy world.

How to Kill Pigs.—Mr. W. Smith, the pig expert ofthe Victorian Department of Agriculture, gives the follow-ing useful hints on the slaughtering of pigs;—In killingthe pig, he says, throw him on his right sine by taking holdof the near or left fore-leg. Still holding the leg with theleft hand, take the knife in the right hand, and cut theneck in a direct line with the chin, but not too near theshoulder. When making the cut, always draw the knifeafter insertion back towards the chin by doing so therewill be less likelihood of shouldering. Two buckets ofboiling water to one of cold make a very good scold (140deg. Fahr.). As soon as the hair will come off the earsclean them well. Then turn the pig over in the tub withback up take all the hair from back and belly, leavingthe head and feet until last. Clean the skin well in hotwater before putting cold water over the pig. Hang upas soon as possible, shave off all loose hairs, and scrub wellwith scrubbing-brush. Open the pig down the belly andthrough the breastbone, clean out the inside well, lift theflares or leaf lard while the carcase is hot, so as to let thelatter cool properly. Leave the pig hanging in a coolplace until the following morning.

At the Addington market last week there was a largeentry of stock and a good attendance. Eat cattle soldat the previous week’s rates. Store sheep and fat lambswere much firmer. Fat sheep sold well, notwithstandingan exceptionally large entry. Store cattle and. pigs weredull of sale, but dairy cows were in active demand. Theyarding of fat lambs totalled 7199, of very mixed quality,ranging from prime down to inferior. The sale was abrisk one, and prices showed an appreciable advance onlate rates. The rise was due to cable advice of a rise inwool, and the coming in of the winter freezing rates andfreights. There were 6856 taken for freezing at 9s to16s 7d, and one pen at 18s Id. The varding of fat sheepwas a very large one, and the quality was on the average abetter than of late. The bulk of the entry consisted, how -wever, of ewes, wethers again being in short supply. The **

range of prices was: Prime wethers, 16s 6d to 21s 6d'-extra, 23s 9d; prime ewes, 13s 6d to 17s lOd. There were324 head of fat cattle penned, of generally good qualityaiM including several lots of very prime heavy bullocks!J here was a steady demand throughout, and the late priceswere well maintained. Steers made up to £ll. There wasa fair entry of all classes of pigs. Choppers made up to70s ; heavy baconers, 50s to 555; and smaller, 35s to 47s 6d—equal to 4d per lb; large porkers, 27s to 325; and lighter,22s to 2os—equal to 4£d to 4Jd per lb. b

For Chronic Chest Complaints,Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d,