NEWS OF THE WEEK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 209, 27 April 1877, Page 11

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

His Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese returned to Dunedin on Saturday evening last. Our readers will oe glad to learn that his Lordship suffered but a trifling injury from the accident which occurred to his conveyance on the Manuherikia Plains, and which was owing to the horses taking fright and running against a wire fence in the dark. During his tour, besides opening the church at Tinker's Gully, of which we have already spoken, the Bishop officiated at Naseby, where he dedicated a church to St. Patrick, and confirmed twenty-three persons, on Wednesday, the 18th inst. ; at Macrae's, where he said Mass, and confirmed eleven persons, on Thursday. 19th j and at Palmerston, where he gave instructions, and administered the sacrament of confirmation to two recipients,* on Friday evening last, and on the following morning dedicated a church to St. Michael the Archangel. His Lordship sets out today for Cromwell, but expects to return to Dunedin on Tuesday next. On the evening of Wednesday next, May 2, a reception of young ladies into the Society of the Children of Mary, will be held at St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin. His Excellency the Governor arrired in Dunedin on Saturday hist. His Excellency was presented with an address by the City Council. J The Chinese boarding-houses in Stafford-street, Dunedin, received a considerable addition to the number of their inmates on Monday last, when the Celestial immigrants admitted to pratique arrived iv town. At no time should we be prepared to welcome so doubtful an increase to the population, but with a suspicion of small-pox hanging around them, our friends of the Flowery Land seem doubly sinister Judging from the groups of men to be seen standing about the doors) and from the size of the buildings, we should say the latter must be shockingly overcrowded. If it be possible for the seeds of disease to have survived the ordinances of quarantine, they are evidently favorably situated for development. An epidemic, however, though never so destructive and afflicting, is amongst the least of the evils to be feared from the introduction of these people into the country-. At a meeting of the City Council, held on Tuesday last, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Fish, that the Sanitary Committee should be requested to ascertain, by means of a circular, the opinion of the medical men of Dunedin with respect to attaching a fever ward to the General Hospital— a step which, considering the situation and conditions of the institution alluded to, cannot be too highly reprobated. His Worship the Mayor suggested the removal of both the establishments under consideration, and their combination upon the Cattle Market reserve. It is to be hoped that if the Fever Hospital, as it stands at present, is to be abolished, some such plan as this may be adopted. The names of many of the leading men of Otago were conspicuous by their absence from those on the list of the attendants at His Excellency the Governor's levee on Tuesday last. The Dunedin Catholic Young Mea's Society held their usual weekly meeting last Wednesday evening in St. Joseph's Schoolroom, when there was a fair attendance of members. It was decided to hold a debate on the first Wednesday in June, the subject to be, "Is the history of Ireland provocative more of joy or sorrow ?" A large attendance is requested for next Wednesday.