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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 315, 2 May 1879, Page 19

Historical ! Vide ' Jurors Reports and Awards, New Zealand Exhibition." Jurors : J. E. Ewen, j. Butterwortb, T. G. Skinner :—: — " So far as the Colony is concerned, the dyeing of materials is almost entirely confined to the re-dyeing of Articles of Dress and Upholstery, a most useful art, for there are many kinds of material that lose their colour before the texture is half worn. G. Hirsch, of Dunedin (Dunedin Dye Works, George street, opposite Royal George Hotel,) exhibits a case of specimens of Dyed Wools, Silks, and Feathera, and dyed Sheepskins. The colours on the whole are very fair, and reflect considerable credit on the Exhibitor, to whom the Jurors recommended an Honorary Certificate should be awarded. Honorary Certificate, 29 : Gustav Hirsch, Dunedin, for specimens of Dyeing in Silk Feathers, &c. From statistics just published it appears that there are no fewer than 1190 daily, weekly, and monthly journals published in the French capital. Regnier, Archbishop of Cambrai, has published a letter on " the duties which the war declared against Chrisu&n schools imposes upon Catholics." The Cardinal argues that what those who advocate secular teaching in public "schools aim at is the destruction of all religion and Christianity, and he concludes that it is the bounden duty of all fathers of families to send their children to schools "where religious truths are seriously professed, and where Christian life may develope itself without obstacle." If Arctic explorers have not discovered a practical northwest passage whales have, as is shown by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the continent. Captain Bauldry of the " Helen Mar of San Francisco" has taken a whale having in it a large flint harpoon, supposed to have been put in by natives of Cape Bathurst, or the regions beyond the mouth of the Mackenzie River, because the natives living to the westward of that river never use such weapons, but always bone or iron. A more positive evidence is found in the fact that the Captain of the " Adeline Gibbs" took a whale in the Arctic with an iron in it which had been thrown the same season in Hudson Bay. This is known to be the case, because the iron bore the mark of a ship at the time engaged in. whaling in the Bay.