News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 258, 12 April 1878, Page 12

News of the Week.

We would remind shareholders in the N. Z. Tablet Comtaxy that the usual annual meeting will be held sometime towards the close of May next. It is especially desirable that as many shareholders as possible should be present, or represented at this meeting, and, in order to facilitate those who live at a distance from Dunedin in securing a representation at it, we give in another column a form of proxy, which if filled up, duly signed, witnessed, and deposited at tho office , of the Company, Octagon, Dunedin, at least forty-eight hours before the time of meeting will entitle the sender to a voice by proxy in the affairs transacted. Apropos of the Russian occupation of the British consulate at Kustchuk, it may be remembered that at the first attempt to cross the Danube the establishment in question was bombarded in an inexplicable manner. Was it a special case of " coming events cast their shadows before?" We understand that steps are being taken for the immediate commencement of the work in connection with the building of the Cathedral in Dunedin. The matter is the more necessary that school accommodation is much needed, and it is intended as soon as possible to convert the present church into a girl school. Meantime an addit ion is obliged to be made to St. Joseph's female school, and another to the schools of the Christian Brothers, and both are in process of construction. It has been found necessary also, in consequence of the increase in the number of their pupils, to provide for tlie reinforcement of the Christian Brothers. Tbe arrival of an additional member of the Order is therefore looked for at an early date. The case heard in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, last week, in which it was sought by a Mr. George Clark to compel the Eev. Father Larkin to surrender to his guardianship a child of nine years of age, named Alice Maud Mary Clark, and who ishißhalf sister, terminated by the decision of the Judge that there was no habeas corpm. It will be remembered that the child, together with others of the family, was left in the care of Father Larkin, by her mother, wto desired tiiateho

should be educated in the Catholic faith. Father Larkin afterwards entrusted her to Mr. George Clark on the undeistanding that she was to be so educated, but finding that trust on this point had been broken, he withdrew her from her half-brother's residence. The Eev. Father, as it is widely known, has made many sacrifices in order to redeem his pledge to the dying woman, and we are glad to find this attempt to thwart his praiseworthy design has been frustrated. The Eev. Father Sheehan will visit Macraes on Sunday, 28th inst., in order to give the Catholics of the district an opportunity of fulfilling their Easter duties.