News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 275, 9 August 1878, Page 14

News of the Week.

We no longer need wonder at the commotion stirred up throughout the world by even a glance given by the Vicar of Christ, for we find that those words falsely reported of a humble Catholic missionary, in a remote part of this out of-the-way land of ours, have spread far and wide and excited loud comments. The fact is the falsehoods disseminated here respecting the Rev. Father Hcnnebcry's doctrine on mixed marriages sccrn j.o have created almost as great a sensation in India as amongst ourselves, we find they have been published throughout Madras and Bombay, and that in the latter presidency our excellent contemporary the Catholic Examiner has considered it necessary to insert in his columns the Rev. Father Martin's letter of contradiction. Who shall say that Rome is not vigorous and formidable ! It is complained that forged bank notes, almost impossible to detect, are being extensively circulated in Sydney. A movement is on foot for the purpose of thoroughly prospecting the country between Kumara and the sea. A gentleman in the Patea district who lately purchased five and a half acres of land for £208, has sold one and a quarter acre of the same for £175. Eight and a half tons of sione lately crushed at Lyell yielded 175 ounces of gold. A case of the biter bitten is reported from W aimate, where it is said that a gentleman who undertook to kick an acquaintance had his leg broken by a fall received in the process. A lady in Taranaki met with a severe and unusual accident the other day. A horse she was riding dropped suddenly dead, and fell upon her, keeping her painfully imprisoned for several hours. A paety at Kumara have washed up 150 ounces of gold for six weeks' work. Williams and party have at length struck gold at Red Jack's. The ; r prospects are said to promise well. Sulphur works have been erected at Tauranga. They consist of a store for holding the raw material, and a building for retorting and refining. Our contemporary the Evening Star hints that a newly-elected M.H.R. would have added to certain choice epithets bestowed by him on a friend that of " Goat-headed" had he not feared that " his arguments would be rebutted." Really if our contemporary goes on like this, we shall have him ere long breaking out into a weekly Punch whether he will or no. We learn that the report of the Rev. Father Hennebery's address at Wellington, copied by us from a contemporary last week, is asserted to be far from faultless. The missionary in particular is said not to have accused the Rev. Mr. Russell of commencing the attack upon him in Westland, as reported, but of having joined in Avith those who had done so. We clip the following from a Westkind newspaper :— " TII3 New York correspondent of the Leader writes :— ' Levy has arrived in New York. He styles Australia " a land of thieves,"' and gets up impromptu denunciations of the "blasted country" on tho side Walks. As Australians, notably some of those in the show business, have made the name of the colonies rather unsavoury hero, he gets a few sympathisers. . . The Rev. Father Blcasdale and Father Walsh, who came with him from Australia, were most villainously abused and caricatured by a blackguard illustrated paper in San Francisco It is a most extraordinary fact that a quiet and unassuming man like Father Walsh should be denounced, and it can only be accounted for, in our opinion, by the lying villainy of Levy." As already announced by us, the Jesuit Fathers will arrive in Dunedin next month, where they will establish a mission, and, if. sufficient encouragement be given, open a college. It is needless for us to dwell upon the advantages conferred upon the Catholic public by the vicinity of a Jesuit College ; the fame of the great Society as a teaching power has been known throughout the world for centuries, and at all times their pupils have been amongst the occupants of the chief positions in the Church, civil society, the army or the navy. We should but waste our time and ppn.-e in dwelling on what every Catholic already knows, and it is only necessary for us to acquaint our readers that the boon referred to is now within their reach, and dependent on their will. Parents who determine on obtaining so great a benefit for their children, will do well therefore to communicate at once on the matter with his Lordship the Bishop of Dunedin, so that it may be determined, as soon as possible, whether the contemplated college may be established with a certainty of success. The Rev. Father Hennebery commenced his mission at Timaru, on Sunday last. There was a crowded attendance at the opening and the telegraphic report of the Missionary's address, for the exactness of which, howevei, we by no means vouch, was as follows : — " At the commencement of his address, he referred to himself, and

that he had been reported to have said that the marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics were no marriages at all, pven if the ceremony had been performed <by a prieat. lie emphatically denied that he had said so, and urged, if he had, the priesis would not have sanctioned his preaching in their eharchep, and the Bishop would have suspended him. He had no doubt a conspiracy was at work to frustrate the good o? the mission, and if in the future his hearers read such reports in the papers, they would know that they were not true. He likened newepaper men and editors to a curse, and treated them as such. He never saw such a Press as existed in New Zealand. Regarding the writ against him for libel, he said there was not a shadow of a case, and all the witnesses in the world and picked juries couldn't make a lie tlae truth. It had been said that he made money by the mission, and that he took £1 300 f i ran Reef ton. He was sorry this was not true. Ho was in debt, and stood before them in, debt." The mission will terminate on Sunday next, 11th inst. A woman has been sold by her husband at Wellington for fifty shillings. St. Patrick's School-Chapel, South Dunedin, will be opened by His Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese, on Sunday the 18th inst. The funeral of the late Dr. O'Donohuo took place at Port Chalmers on Sunday last; the Rev. Father Larkin performing the service. Notwithstanding the extreme inclemency of the weather, there was a numerous attendance— several of the friends of .tha deceased going from Dunedin and elsewhere to testily their rcspoct for his memory — II.LP.