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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 158, 12 May 1876, Page 13

Considerable sensation has been created by the secession to Rome of Mrs. Billington, wife of Major Billington, Inniskilling Dragoons. The first steps in Mrs. Billingtou's secession are said to have been caused by the visits of a lady missionary while the regiment lay in Dublin. Subsequently Mrs. Billington wns in communication with Miss Adelaide Proctor, the poetess, herself a seceder, wbo completed what the lady missionary in Dublin commenced. A Catholic pricit has established a mission among the Esquimaux of the Arctic Circle. He tiavels over an iu.mense district wilh sledges, sleeping nights under a snow hut. The Archbishop of Boston, acting with a committee of layman, has issued an appeal to the Catholics of the country to lend & helping baud, financially) to Mr. Donahoe, of the ' Pilot,' to set him on his feet again. The year 1875 is said to hare left no trace of its flight on the visage or physique of the Holy Father. He is truly a Colossus in the hair of Peter.