FATHER HAYS' CAMPAIGN.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1905, Page 5

FATHER HAYS' CAMPAIGN.

— * I'M? TPXROHAPn— rKK99 ASSOCUTIOH.] ' IVEROAROILL, 13th April. A meeting addrcsaed by Father Hays tit Winton to-night was a very large ono. Father Iluys mtul© a. statement to the offect that ho was glad to meetut Inveioirijill and Winton so many of his co-religion-ists, and to know that they had taken no notice of the vile attempts of people interested in the liquor traffic to drug the Church and its Bishops into tho mud, and cause religious strife. He had personally Clio greatest respect for tho Bishops and priests. They were not opposed to his work. He could not expect the Bishops to officially use their position to couiilennnco as a Catholic movement that which was quite unacctariun. Ho hud coniQ to New Zealand quite independent of ajiy church,, and was not the paid ngent of any society. Having succeeded Cardinal Manning an Vice-president of the Alliance in England, the sinter Alliance in Now Zenland, as representing nil temperance societies in tho colony, had undertnkon to nrganiso meetings for him, and make business arrangements. It was no part of his work to dictate to the people ad to which way they must vote. Ho had a civil right ft* a British subject to visit New Zenland and study the temperance question, md form his own opinions.