News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 246, 18 January 1878, Page 11

News of the Week.

We learn that tho Rev. Father Henncbery will open his mission at Dunedin cm February 3rd next. We would remind our Catholic readers that in order to entitle them to vote at the election of a member of Parliament it is necessary, failing other qualifications, that they should be in the occupation of a house rented for six months. It would be well, therefore, if they would take care to have themselves duly qualified, and their names placed upon the. electoral roll. The Illustrated New Zealand Herald for the current month is more than usually attractive. A \iewof Victorian scenery is remarkably true and striking. A contkmpohary quotes from the Indian journals apropos of a difficulty that exists as to the religion in which the Famine Orphans are to be educated. Surely the authorities concerned need look no further for a solution than to the plan followed amongst us here in New Zealand. Let them follow the secular system, and it will be found in the long run that, while the Christianity of the period has been perfectly satisfied, " Siva and Vishnu" have lost nothing. The correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star is accountable for the following telegram, dated Auckland, January Io. — At Grahamstown Father Chnstagnon denounced the Education Act from his pulpit. He said they sometimes heard the cry of "Free Schools" put forth at election times by claptrap politicians, but he need not saythat to a Catholic the free schools are very dear schools. He would constantly exhort Catholics to have nothing whatever to do with them, to take neither act nor part in their administration, nor in any. thing connected with the new Act. They were not to go on school committees, and must abstain altogether in voting, and be conspicuous for nothing on the polling day but their absence. The Christian Brothers' Schools, and St. Joseph's Female School, Dunedin, will re-open on Monday nexi. 21st inst. The Convent High School will resume work on the follow in .j Monday, 28th inst. At the recent Public Examination of the New South Wales Uni« versity the pupils of Catholic Schools made a very creditable show. The name of Mr. Francis Butler, St. Patrick's College, Goulburn, stands first on the list of prize-men.