News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 304, 14 February 1879, Page 15

News of the Week.

We have received some further correspondence relati\ c to the matters discussed by members of the H.A.C.B.S. in our columns last week, and the week before ; but, as we consider that the affair in question may much more easily be arranged without the intervention of a newspaper, and can sr>o no other end to be served by the publication of these letters, we refrain from publishing them. We find some errors crept into our list of subscriptions at the laying of the foundation stone of the Dunedin Cathedral. Mrs. Coblieu £.">, should read Mrs. Colaha» Xo ; and Mr. K. A. Dunne .Cl, was omitted. We shall be happy to correct any other mistakes on tbeir being pointed out to up. His-Excellcncy the Marquis of Normanby has arrived in Clnistchavch, en route for Melbourne. From Christchurch his Excellency comes to Dunedin, where preparations are being made to give him a suitable reception. "Winter appears to have announced its approach early this year. Snow has already fallen at Shippers, an I on som: of the Ecertou range;. It is reported on the West Coast that Government are about to open up the Ilaupiri district by the construction of a passable track. THE WfiJitt Maori reports a large Native meeting at Omalm, Ahuriri, in which a strong feeling against the present Government has been expressed. His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington administered the sacrament of confirmation at Christchurch, on Monday last. At the funeral of a member of the Society of the Children of Mary, which took place this week at Christchurch, there a full attendance of members of the Society, wearing the dress of their Association. We arc happy to sec that a new Catholic weekly has been started in Adelaide. It is a spirited and well-edited paper, and is tastefully and neatly got up. We wish it most heartily a long and prosperous career. '• Who are the Saxons," a pamphlet reprinted from the Otttyo Witness, by Mr. George F. Clarke of Dunedin, furnishes the arguments adduced for the identification of the Anglo-Saxon race with the lost Ten Tribes. The views put forward arc at least curious and amusing.