News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 251, 22 February 1878, Page 12

News of the Week.

Our subscribers will be pleased to learn that the Directors of the iV. Z. Tablet Company have resolved upon enlarging the Tablet. A considerable addition oE reading matter, of local news especially, wil] be made in the course of a few weeks. Meantime it is requested that, in order to f acilitate the improvements contemplated, subscriptions due be at once sent in to the Secretary, Mr. John F. Perrin, Tablet Office, Dunedin. We learn from the Nelson Colonist of the 14th inst., that — Several of the Catholic clergy arrived in Nelson on Sunday, on their way to the Synod at Wellington. At High Mass, at St. Mary's, there were present the Rev. Fathers Garin, Mahoney, LampiHa, M'Caughey, Carew, Ecuyer, and Holland. Father Mahoney was the celebrant, the sermon being preached by the Rev. Father Rolland, whose name is familiar to old colonists from his devotion, at great personal risk, to the wounded and dying during the Maori war. The rev. gentleman delivered a short but very able and telling discourse upon " Charity," which, he said, meant " perfect unselfishness." If they were rich, they should give of their abundance to the poor ; if they were proud of their education, they should seek to raise up those who had not the same advantages ; and this in no narrow, sectarian spirit, but they must recognise in every man a neighbour, and succour him according to his necessity. Nor would charity be perfect if there was any thought of self glorification in Ihe doer of it. They had the most perfect example in Jesus Christ, who, although Lord of heaven and earth, gave himself up as a sacrifice for all mankind. Let them try to live in peace and unity with all, to avoid tattlings and slanderings, and gossiping down other people's reputations. There was surely something better to be done during the short time we had to live ; and he would put it to them whether, as a mere matter of social comfort—apart from the religious duty it clearly was— it was not worth while to try and be as kind as possible one to another. Let each man love his neighbour as himself, and be always ready' to make sacrifices for him, and so fulfil the law and live the life of Christ. At Vespers, the Rev. Father Carew preached an eloquent sermon on " The Love of God to Man, as displayed in the Incarnation." His Lordship the Bishop of Dunedin, left Port Chalmers by the s.s, Wanaka on Monday last, en route for Auckland. We understand that his Lordship win be absent from Dunedin for about three weeks. The Rev. Father Hennebery leaves Dunedin to-day for Hokitika, where he will open a mission on Sunday March 3rd. The tone of many of our contemporaries relative to the death of the Holy Father is eminently respectful and feeling, although, in some instances, the course pointed .out for the guidance of his successor is such as we can by no means agree to. We hope to give in a future issue extracts from the articles alluded to. We beg to call the attention of our readers to an extract given in another column from Father Burkes sermon on Nano Nagle, the

great foundre.ss.of the Presentation Order of Nuns in Ireland. Wehave headed' the'extfact "A Secular System,"" as it describes a' development of "Godless education, approved in spirit by some'who are amongst us here to-day, and we consider it particularly useful in the ' storm that has been raised by a contemporary to the prejudice of Irish Catholics in these colonies. We have received from Messrs. Burton Bros, of Princes street,. Dunedin, some beautiful photographs of the late Pope. The sweet expression for which the countenance of His Holiness was so remark- " able has been well caught, and a really excellent likeness has been the result. We have no doubt our Catholic readers will gladly avail themselves of this opportunity of obtaining a souvenir of their beloved and lamented Holy Father. A large and influential meeting in support of the Early Closingmovement was hold on Wednesday evening last in the Temperance Hall, Dunedin. As the matter has been taken up by many of thelcading citizens it is to be hoped that a speedy success will crown the" efforts of the Association.