GRAND ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 15, 9 August 1873, Page 14

GRAND ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN AUCKLAND.

Thb above was a most orderly and respectable affair. It mu»t have been highly gratifying to Orangemen, but I hardly think Protestants generally in this part of the world will be very much pleased with it. To Catholics it must, I think, have been most satisfactory. The speakers bore testimony to the vitality, power, and progess of the Catholio religion especially in the Australian Colonies in language the most emphatic. As a Catholio resident in Auckland, I for one render them my most grateful acknowledgement for the service they thus did to the Catholic cause. We can readily pardon them for the oldfashioned calumnies and misrepresentation about Catholic doctrinal affairs which they repeated, and which many of their respectable hearers obviously swallowed as " proofs from holy writ," and the alleged pernicious character and tendency of the Catholic system. Can it be possible that their ignorance on such subjects at this time of day is excusable and innocent before God ? J. W.