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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 8, 21 June 1873, Page 14

The Rev. E. R. Martin, writing from Lutterworth, Nottingham, says — With the full permission and blessing. of the Bishop of Nottingham, and with the kind leave and generous help of the Earl of Denbigh — the lord of the manor — whose chaplain I am, I am about to open a station at Lutterworth, which is in the district spiritually entrusted to me. Our first Mass there will be the first Mass in that town since " the Reformation." It boasts, and justly, of being the cradle of English Protestantism, for, but for Wickliffe — its rectorthere would in all probability have been no Lollards in England, atid Henry VIII. would hardly have dared to force his heresies on a people entirely Catholic. A first Mass there is, then, an event in the history of the re-conversion of England.

Fatheb Btjbjce was one day travelling in a railway oar in America, and amongst those seated in it was an American gent with a goatee, vrho, stroking his goatee, addressed him and said, " I say, stranger, guess you admit the Darwinian theory, don't you ?" " Oh," snid Father Burke, " as far as you are concerned I do admit it of course, for you are a living prooi of it ; but as far as myself is concerned, by no means am I a believer.