NEWS OF THE WEEK,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 228, 14 September 1877, Page 11

NEWS OF THE WEEK,

Owing to the superior importance of the reports of meetings -we are obliged to hold over until next week the continuation of our tale, Tyborne. Owing to the important reports of Catholic meetings in connection with the Education Bill which occupy so large a portion of -our columns, we are obliged to hold over to our next issue several -contributions and items of interest. We have further found it necessary to curtail our telegraphic intelligence, more especially with regard to that which has reached us by the .San Francisco mail. The chief matters of importance, however, thus conveyed to us, besides those to which reference is made in another column, are, the serious riots that have occurred in connection with the strikes in America, more especially in the town of Pittsburgh, where the number of killed and wounded amounted to 45. At the meeting at Wimbledon the Irish team won the Elcho shield. At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council held on Tuesday last, it was resolved that steps should be taken to ensure the Fever Hospital being kept open for some time longer than the 30th inst., and that the Committee of the General Hospital should be requested to take over the institution referred to at an early date. A petition, who«e object is the modification of the Education Bill, and of which a copy will be found in another column, has been drawn up for presentation to Parliament. Signatures may be affixed to it in the porch of St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin, on Sunday next, or on week days at the establishment of Mr. Macedo, in South Princes-street. Persons intending to sign the document referred to are requested to lose no time about doing so, as it must immediately be forwarded to its destination. A special meeting of the Dunedin Catholic Young Men's Society was held last Friday evening, for the purpose of modifying and improving on the original rules. This evening the new rules are to be finally adopted, and, as there are some important alterations and additions that may affect some members, it is hoped that there will be a large attendance. If any member interested neglects to attend, it will be at his own risk. In reference to the statement made at a recent meeting of the Board of Governors of the Christchurch Public Library, That the Hew Zealand Tablet, when forwarded to the institution under their control, had been received and placed upon the library table, we have only to say that, in no instance has a paper been sent from this office there. If numbers of our journal have now and then reached the table alluded to, they have not come from us, but, as we know it has been the case in certain instances, must have been supplied by subscribers desirous of conferring a favour upon the institution in question. We do not forward the Tablet to any library or elsewhere, unless application is made to us to do so. As & matter of courtesy, we invariably comply with such a request made by the managers of literary establishments, but, so far as we are personally concerned, the affair is one of indifference to us. The New Zealand Tablet does not need further advertisement, and ■we consider that those institutions from which it is excluded, if such there be, are, with their habitues, the sole sufferers from such exclusion. Owing to a misunderstanding that arose in connection with the dissolution of partnership by a certain firm in Dunedin, a •■charge of forgery was last week brought against Mr. Robert Bossbotham, a gentleman well known in the city referred to. A private enquiry, however, into the relations of the parties concerned having resulted in clearing the accused of all intentions to defraud, application was made to have the case withdrawn. Withdrawal was, therefore, sanctioned by the Bench on the technical grounds that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a committal. A gkand concert will be given on Friday evening next, 21st inst., in the Queen's Theatre, Dunedin, in aid of- the Dominican Convent Building Fund Signor Carmini Morley has most kindly tendered his services for the occasion, and a prominent part in the performances will also be borne by Messrs. Towsey, West, and Sykes. In addition to this, which of itself is sufficient to promise a musical entertainment of a high order, the aid of a large number of well-known amateurs has been secured. Tickets for the occasion may be obtained at the Convent, or from the ladies of the committee. We are informed that a meeting of Catholics was held in Queenstown on the 2nd instant, when several resolutions were arrived at condemning the Education Bill now before Parliament. (A report of the meeting will appear in our next issue.) The same correspondent informs us that a meeting was held immediately after the above to organise a branch of the H.A C.B. Society, when all present enrolled themselves, and promised to get their friends to do the same.