TRUE RELIGION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 392, 15 October 1880, Page 17

TRUE RELIGION.

to^^S^^ fr ™' tettttol the Bißh °P of Achonry M ru7 h^ outbr « ak ° f fever in ' hungry July,' and at the close of a prolonged period of severe destitution, renders the condition of many fn at ai^P Sh °tf 6 m? 7 dr / ad£ul indeed - ThQ visitation has .et !?« ♦? 75f " c xll - fated Po°r are wasted in health and in strength, and their recuperative power at a very low point. It has come, too, at a moment when sanitary requirements are found wofully wanting and when even the very behests of common humanity are met with cold disregard. Your Grace may easily imagine mv feel? ings when I learned (during my absence from home) that our Bitten of Chanty hud been hjt to coffin the remaint of a fever patient T;Zl more, to carry the coffined remains into the street. I am informed that no one else could be found to undertake the noble work of S 7 ' i^f^ly when the remains were borne into the open t^ r* 7 - b y f tbe gentle hands of the devoted Pisters that a few men! less panic-stricken than others, ventured to lend a hand, and conveyed *r,l ft C rde - CC l aSCd ni° i he . graVe And a S ain ' wb en I read of S plague-stricken Charlestown,' that there 'was no one to nurse but 2 «P« P l f £ /& arißb pnes i' Wbo is tbe cbie£ and alm o st only nurse! hou^ Tm thedavand n^ht, going from pest-house to pest' and of ti,i ™ P roud of t be heroic charity of the brave-hearted Sisters and of the manly and dauntless zeal of the P. P. of Charlestown so aptly described by the Freeman's correspondent m * thebS'braTe' and generous' Father Tom Loftus. And 1 felt, too, what a pW there is in our holy religion to inspire its consecrated servants P wTS nr,W r, IDg °T>. age I* ° f da^ er and P^ic ! But whilrtSS priest nurses the plague-stricken, and our nuns are coffining and SSi t / P^^e lo^ 8 of the dead, what is the Local Government Hnt i TST S ? HaVe theyprovided suitable ambulance accommodan»Lf t proper removal of the fever patients to hospital ? Let the e ,?i th(i A f ree »' a^^respondent on the 'common cart ttTH rCad *? rlply-,r l ply -, Have they Bent d0 ™ an additional staff, ofn^r - a f W^ edlCalstuden^ torelievetb c Poor priest of the duty of nursing ? No, not one. Have they even sent money, so liberally promised by the Chief Secretary, to save the lives of 'the peopled K^5Tt"S 4 u^ gviSed^o^v^ a st^rsJ^si S^J^w? ° f fever - 3tri^e D , famishing, Irish peasant, and met with the cruel composure of official indifference. Pardon me for JodoTohUr^fi" olll6ll^- lßbould not have pi°s^mVd and pSriott b£rt?' Unted UP ° Q & frieQdly eCh ° *»**»>**'*¥ W4

dP^it. of tt PP f ndent Of . tbe u Weßtern Morning Nms at Lima sends of Sl si T^f ap ? ears to have beeQ one of the m °st spirited actions SlX** American war. After the battle of Tacna 6000 Chilian fioldiers were sent by train to Lenta, and on the 7th of June, after wW^^P l6^^ l^* 1 Of tbe city so as to sur P™e the enemy mw^dSS **??**> tbey made a fierce and general attack upon Se ?orT« wS ?? g v ? D tl Ye WOrks in one S rand char e e - Tfa e Peruvian forts were taken in the rear, every man in them being put to death Slays' wwats t m f e s°^e inner line. No sooner lere the ChiHans clear of the outer forts than they were blown high into the air by the The?nn°p n rl mi TfS re ?' I™* t0 ° late ' by electri ° wires f™m Verity! , lhe inner line of the forts was stormed by equal quickness After a in 7^ at Vv m W le *? remainde * of the g^nS made a last s and rinSrSSr hc P laza ' but were mown down on all sides by the victS s m ™rS w 8 UntU Scarcely one of tbem remained, all demands for surrender being contemptuously refused. Meanwhile an attack was made from the sea front, and the commodore of the Peruvian monitor B^nrL? aP Th'. Seeingthatal i^ a8 J° st ' Bt eamed into deep wa£r and fhoT, v Th^ cr .ew escaped in the boats, but the neutral ships in the harbour refusing to take them on board they had to surrender SnaS °am 7 ° f the ftlliea hw thua *" Practical^ S