MEETING AT WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 13

MEETING AT WELLINGTON.

A vest largely attended meeting of the leading Catholics of Wellington and the neighbouring districts was held this evening at the house of his Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese, in which the following resolutions were carried ;—; — Proposed by the Hon. Dr. Grace, M.L.C., and seconded by Mr Charles O'Neil, C.8. ,-" That the Catholics of Wellington are per" fectly in accord with the object of the great Catholic meeting, which is to be beheld on the Bth prox., at Dunedin— viz., to protest against the great injustice done to all the. Catlolics in New Zealand by the present legislation in reference to education— legislation whereby they are deprived of their share of the public lands allocated to educational purposes, of their share of loans appropriated to school buildings, and of their share of the annual taxation appropriated to the payment of schoolmasters, and to the training of schoolmasters." Proposed by the Hon. Dr. Grace, and seconded by Mr. R. P. Collins—" That (a gentleman to be chosen by the tishop of Dunedin) be appointed to represent the Catholics of Wellington at the Aggregrate Meeting of Catholics to be held in Dunedin on Tuesday, July Bth, 1879 a