AN APOLOGY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 177, 18 August 1876, Page 10

AN APOLOGY.

The following apology appeared in the * Tuapeka Times' of the 29th ult. Owing to inadvertence, we neglected to insert it in either of our last two issues. We now hasten to atone for our negligence. " With reference to the paragraph which appeared in our issue of Ist July, containing a rumor about a Roman Catholic clergyman of Dunedin, we are assuned that the report was utterly groundless, not having the shadow of a foundation. We, therefore, desire to express our deep regret at having given circulation to a report so injurious to the Roman Catholic clergy of Dunedin, and so painful to our Roman Catholic fellow countrymen. We acknowledge that the paragraph was inserted rashly, and without a due sense of its seriousness, and we beg to tender to our Roman Catholic fellow-citizens generally, and the priesthood in particular, the expression of our regret at the pain we have given, aud the injustice of which we have been the instrument."