SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 7179, 5 April 1887, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, April 4. At St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning, the Rev. Father Keogh, in making the usual announcements, informed the congregation that in conformity with the resolution passed by the Ceinetery Committee, he had to say that unless contributions towards the management of the Symonds street Cemetery were forthcoming at once, the sexton would be* discharged and the Committee would resign in a body. The Committee were already out of pocket through paying the sexton's salary." 'Before the present Committee undertook the management the oemetery had been in the care of the laity, and it had been aßcene of such larrikinism, bostiality, and unmentionable crimes, that it was a wonder that the City Corporation had not closed it on tbe ground of -its being a public nuisance. Father Keogh subsequently announced that a meeting of Catholics would be held on Low Sunday to take into consideration the proposed Symonds street Roman Catholic Cemetery Bill. He said there had been a great row made in the papers about the Bill, and it had been misrepresented. The object of the Bill was to enable the Church to fulßl the trusts upon which the ground was held. It was necessary that funds should be raised for the maintenance of the cemetdry, and in order to do this it j was proposed that the unused portion of the ' cemetery should be leased, and the revenue, therefrom devoted to this purpose. The Catholics were the only denomination which had a portion of their cemetery available for such purposes. Had other de- i nominations been in a position to j act similarly there would have; been precious little said in the papers about; it. He was surprised at the stupidity of large numbers Of Catholics, who took their' religion and politics from the Liberal papers the * Herald' and the ' Star. * These two papers professed to be Liberal, but they were most bigoted and intelligent organs, and seiged every opportunity of having a slap at the Catholics and misrepresenting them. The 'Star 1 disolaims any desire to teach the Catholics religion, and twits Father Keogh with having lost his temper. NAPIER, April 5.

Notwithstanding the destruction of the Pink and ViThite Terraces, more tourists passed through Napier for the Hot; Lakes this season than ever before. Griffiths's coaches were fully taxed to meet the demands. A man named Taylor, a fisherman,-was fined LIO and costs (L 3 9s), or four months' hard/labor, iot cruelly beating his sori, aged seven and a-half years, last week. Accused and his boy were out in the country selling fish, and the boy was driving a part when it capsized. Neithep :was hurt. righted the eftrt, picked up the fish th'ath/Mj been scattered on the" road,'and having pus things to rights, set to work and beat the boy over the head and back with the butt end of the whip. Some Maoris witnessed the assault, and threatened to fetch a policeman. Taylor then drove off, and the boy Was brought into town, arid conveyed to the hospital, He was frightfully bruised on the head, face, and back, A' subcommittee of the Chamber of Com. merce report as follows:— *' Having ~~exhaustively examined the ...minutes; of the Chamber, ai well as the correspondence, we are." reluoWntly SoompellMl- to conclude thai

the frequent communications to the several Ministers have resulted in so little good that they feel it hopeless to farther represent the complaints of the Chamber. For the past four years there have been promises ignored and communications not replied to, and they can arrive at uo other conclusion than that the Minister of Public Works is not the ruling power at the head of the Railway Department. The following are the subjects so specially ignored : Reduction of freights on other .timber for export than white pine; the abolition of the loading and unloading charges on wool at the railway stations; differential railway rates and railway tariff reform re sheep carriage, etc.; return tickets to all stations; removal of the Napier goodsshed. The conclusion your sub-Committee have arrived at is that until the railways of the Colony are under the control of a nonpolitical board of practical men, as in Victoria, there is no hope of the lines being economically and profitably worked." CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. There appears to be no chance of Dr Russell's case coming on to-day. The Crown Prosecutor hopes to get it commenced to-morrow morning, and finished by Thursday night, when it is understood that the Court will adjourn till the following Wednesday. Re the loans to local bodies, I have been requested to state that in the instances in which the amount mentioned exceeds the amount authorised by Parliament the loan for one year was to be gpread over two years.