NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL
New Zealand Tablet, Rōrahi XXXII, Putanga 30, 28 Hōngongoi 1904, Page 20
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NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL
We ha c tO tliamk the Registirar-Cieneral for t»he advanVce portions of the e«ir Book for'the curicHt year. On Sunday huvt, after Vevpers (writes a Greymouth (orresi'ondcnt under date July a meeting of pan&iiione: wais held to consider what slops should be taken low., al-i eioctvng the spue and tower of tlhe church, ai.d thiis rue the .sacred edifice a finished appcaran c '1 he i'vx Dlvui Carcw ex])lain^fi 1/li,il Ulie m-r hi+ »>i 1 "«i re 1;!*,1 ct Dunedin, csinnalcd the woik to tost i]V!.6. lh" It,tj« cilii-aAly h..i-> a .sum totalling over £700 available for the work It was pro'iro^ed to hold a ba/aar to r,ii-.c the bala,nce The mucting decided tnat tenders stbotild b^ called lninu'diatelv, and I hope tihat by Cli'tihtm.is the wo't'k will be well niv,h fimmhad. Last Monday's Christchurch Truth container} the following caustic editorial paragiaph, under the heading The Disconsolate Yellow Pup The loud yelps of. the yellow pup huve uucMenly subsided into mournful whimpering, aild the champion of the Protest aait Defence Association whatever that institution may be and of the loyal Orangemen has backed out in his usual ungraceful and ungenerous way. The yellow pup thought he had discovered a horrid and awful thing ho imagined ho had got hold of a case of religious fa, oi ltism, a«d he concluded that this country was being given ocr to Rome, or something equally terrible. T. E. Taylor ros.e in Parliament, with ,his hair on end anf! a wild glaie in his eye, to lm'pcach ttie wicked Catflioiic Minister for Railways, and make all the imagimitne assertions he could think of about this availing preference to holy Romans. It turns out that the alleged oiience was the reinstatement of the host and most lehable blacksmith in the Aldington works-hops, who was comicted without proper trial of stealing a pieoc of meat, an ofience that nobody thinks him guilty of So here is anothei shocking msta-nc-e of religious fa oritism gone up the spout, and the country is still safe Bu< T 1-: Taylor needn't despair. There is am ugly rumor that Sn Joseph Ward is partial to using candles to go Vo bed In, needing sifting
