CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 5

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

''Opawa Resident* complains that one or two householders living near the Opawa Bridge keep rabbits, ana allow them to run loose in their gardens and yards, in spite of the complaints of their neighbours, whose orchards and gardens are said to suffer in consequence.. "A Protestant," writing in reply to the Pastoral issued by the Catholic" clergy, says England and Wales the Roman Catholics are but one-twentieth of the population, yet they furnish one-fourth of the criminals. In Scotland they are only one- | twelfth of the population, but they- furnish one-third of tie criminals. In Ireland they are one-half to one of the population, yet they furnish six criminals to one for t'he iProtesbaiita." After quoting numerous statistics, with a view of showing that the percentage of crime and illegitimacy is'larger in Roman Catholic than in Protestant countries, he concludes :*— "The "Roman Catholic clergy call our State schools godless; but the statistics cannot fail to prove an eye-opener to the Catholic i laity, and they are stubborn facts, not mere opinions." "Protestant to the Core" a-?ks for an, explanation why the Board of Governors of Canterbury College have delayed the appointment of a music lecturer. Discussing the probability of the position being conferred upon the new Cathedral organist, he says: —"Would it not be more honourable

for those members of the Board who are interested in the Cathedral to withhold their votes on the occasion of choosing a candidate for the position, so as to remove all doubt from the minds of the public and the denominational element, and at the same time give other auplicantn p. chance'"? ~

"Honour to whom Honour is Due " urges that the position of Cathedral organist should have been offered to the locum tenens, Mr Charles Tendall. "To appoint another, 5, he declares, "after oaaking a convenience of Mr Tendall so long.-is. in mv opinion, nothing but a gross injustice."