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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 456, 6 January 1882, Page 15

The correspondent of the London Tablet writes from Rome under date Nov. 12th as follows: — On Thursday, the 10th, his Holinesi received in private audience Dr. Patrick Moran, Bishop of Dunedin New Zealand, and Monsignor Kirby, Bishop of Lita. Dr. Moran presented to the Holy Father the sum of £100, being Peter Pence from the bishop, clergy, and faithful of Dunedin. Leo XIII. con* versed for a considerable time with Bishop Moran, asking details concerning the progress of religion in New Zealand. Bishop Moran also presented to the Pope an address from the bishops of New Zeal* and, manifesting their Borrow for the scandalous occurrences of the 13th of July, and offering to the Holy Father their condolences and sympathy.

A new Catholic Church has been opened at Carlyle, his Lord* ship the Bishop of Wellington acting as celebrant, with the Rev. Fathers Chastagnon and Grogan as assistant priests. The collection made on the occasion amounted to £110.

The diocese of Brisbane has been divided in two ; the northern portion forming the diocese of Rockhampton, and the southern portion continuing as that of Brisbane. The Very Rev. Dr. Cani, an Italian priest long connected with the Brisbane mission, and of high repute for his learning and ability as well as for his zeal as a missionary has been appointed to the see of Rockhampton. The Very Rev. Dr. Robert Dunne becomes Bishop of Brisbane, and if his career in the epiacopftte attain to an «qua meajure with that ht hai ipeat

as a priest, as we may confidently expect that it will, abundant blessings must result to all the members of his flock. Father Dunne has laboured long and ardently in Queensland, and bad many years ago secured the love and respect of the people whose bishop he is now to be. Like the Bey. Dr. Cani, he is a learned and able ecclesiastic.

The Lake Wakatip Mail reports favourably of the Upper Shotover reefs. The Mount Aurum Company are busy crushing some rich stone.

The Ararat Advertiser pronounces the state of things in Melbourne to be such that it must soon be necessary for people, in order to avoid murder or robbery, to remain indoors at night, or if obliged to go abroad they must carry firearms. Yet we were told nine years ago that secularism in Victoria would assuredly bring in the golden age I

A madman made a " sudden and awful apppearance" in Christ's Church, at Nelson, a Sunday or two ago, as the congregation were attending at the morning service, and mounting up behind the clergyman in the reading-desk, gesticulated and made grimaces, peeping over the shoulders of a much suffering and most patient ecclesiastic, until the people, led by the ladies, fled from the building in alarm. The police were then called for and the unfortunate man given into custody. He proved to be a storeman of good repute who about a year ago lost his wife and was left with a family of six little children to look after.

What is the meaning of the name Te Koburu ? It can hardly mean much that is good, for, according to a correspondent of the Wellington Evening Pott, it was a name given in 1868 to Mr. Bryce by the Natives, and most probably they gave him bis deserts. The letter in which we find the name mentioned pretends to be from that wicked special who proposed that a certain revolver should be put to a "noble use," by shooting the Minister of War with it. He wants to know why they don't put him in gaol for his word of advice — and that they do not does seem rather a remarkable bit of clemency everything considered.

The prison at Grange Gorman, a suburb of Dublin, we are informed is being prepared for the reception of " suspects " of the Ladies' Land League. Is the gentle Forster, indeed, busying himself about the fitting up of bowers and boudoirs 1 and will he study sesthetic effects by admitting rose-colour, or insist upon drab being the only wear among the hangings and cushions of the apartments in question ? This is a tint that henceforth will hardly recommend iiself very highly to the Irish eye — and yet that is unfortunate, too, for the Quakers had always hitherto been of good repute, and detervedly so, among the people of Ireland.

All the Mayors in England are called upon to take part in the defence of property in Ireland. Thirty thousand soldiers, then, and gidliee unlimited, are insafficient to hold in awe the totally unarmed country!

Negotiations as to the commercial treaty between England and France seem to be broken off without much hope of renewal.

An American paper reports that a diamond has been found in South Africa that beats the Koh-i-noor all to sticks. A gentleman named Porter Bhodes, who owns it, is willing to take £300,000 for it, but not in a hurry to sell.

The gallant English tar has been asserting his patriotism in New Orleans by kicking up a row at an Irish Land League meeting where some doubts seem to have been thrown upon the national cant-cry " Bule Britannia." The gallant British tar, on the other hand, in Melbourne the other day displayed his patriotism by deserting from the Squadron, whenever he could find an opportunity. We, therefore, are in some degree justified in concluding that love of a row strongly influenced the patriotism in the case alluded to.

A young man named Barclay, who followed the trade of a bootmaker in Dunedin, was drowned while bathing in the Silverstream on Tuesday.

The English papers have been much interested of late in matters connected with New Zealand. The Daily Nem, for example, hopes that " diplomacy will do something to keep the (Maori) difficulty from becoming one of bloodshed." The Daily News may be further interested to learn that diplomacy did nothing in the matter, but that Che patience of the Maoris prevented the bloodshed that Mr. Bryce has not scrupled to own would have taken place had these unfortunate people dared so much as to wag a finger in their own defence. But that Maori blood must have been the only blood shed is evident from the total want of offensive arms displayed by the ransacked whares. A little girl named Ayton was killed near Waimate on Sunday by a fall from a buggy which came in contact with a post. Reports of discoveries of arms and arrests of intending wholesale murderers in Ireland continue to be made. We must of necessity receive all Irish reports on the part of the telegraph and the antiIrish Press with some degree of suspicion, but still wherever outrages in truth occur they are deeply to be deplored and deprecated. Let us not believe, however, that they are peculiar to the Irish move*

ment, or that any popular movement has ever taken place without their occurrence. Trades Unionism, for example, has been account* able for many outrages, and yet we find Professor Goldwin Smith now hailing its establishment as an acknowledged benefit, and speaking as follows : — " Trade Unionism is not Communism. It aims at insuring justice to the workman in the bargain between him and the capitalist who employs him, and at elevating his character and social condition. Those who pleaded its cause in earlier days may, I think, now have the satisfaction of saying that, in spite of errors and faults, it has really served both these purposes, and that notwithstanding occasional outrages it has, on the whole, rendered trade disputes more legal and less violent in their character than they used to be in former times." Whatever, then, may be the crimes committed by turbulent spirits, under the excitement that now obtains in Ireland, we cannot but believe them to be insignificant when compared with the great and lasting crime of a country's degradation, and the enforced misery of its people, nor are we able to receive their commission as a sufficient reason for the condemnation of the general movement necessary to place things on a better footing. The justice of such a view will be freely acknowledged when the popular cause has gained the day.

It is impossible for us to understand how the Land Act can be looked upon as a perfect measure, and one that should command the unbounded gratitude of the Irish people, and at once put an end to all their clamour, when we find that, notwithstanding its operation, the worst feature in Irish landlordism— eviction— still continues in full force. It seems, moreover, that it does so even in an aggravated form, for now a Government proclamation is reported to declare that notices to quit need no longer be served, but will suffice if they are posted. The Land Act that permits all this certainly savours a little of the sham.

Mb. B. D. Locke, otherwise known as Petroleum v. Nasby, is an American journalist of some repute. He was, moreover, deservedly reputed as extremely anti-Irish, and, filled with anti-Irish prejudice, he went over lately to Ireland, where he encountered Mr. James Bedpath, whom he ridiculed for his advocacy of the Irish cause. Mr. Bedpath, however, persuaded him to accompany him on a tour of the Galtees, and his conversion was complete and immediate. " Why, he cried and swore alternately," says Mr. Bedpath, "at every step of the way, and before he left he had distributed more than fifty dollars among the wretched children of the district." It only needs their eyesight to convert many men as much prejudiced as was Mr. Locke, and make them ashamed of their present opinions on Irish affairs.

Although Archbishop Croke condemned the no-rent manifesto of the Land League as a rash and unjust measure, it is by no means to be supposed that his Grace intended to express any change of opinion with regard to the League itself. If any such notion has been entertained it has received a sufficient contradiction in the Archbishop's address made the other day to the Ballingarry branch of the League, and in which he said that although the organisation in question was supposed to have been annihilated it would rise again like the Phoenix from its ashes, and prove to be not dead but sleeping. He added that his own views as well as the spirit of the people had undergone no change, and called upon them to be united, faithful to their truest friends the clergy, and just in thei* dealings. " Give to Csesar what belongs to Cresar," but keep yourself what if right belongs to you. Tender a fair rent to them to whom it is due. If accepted well and good ; if not, you have in so far done your duty. Offer no resistance to the constituted authorities. Discourage violence." The Archbishop concluded by recommending them to put their trust in God, and predicting the people's triumph. The London Times considers this a qualification of Dr. Croke's denunciation of the no-rent policy ; it is, however, merely the adherence of a brave and just man to his deliberately formed opinion.

It will be seen from a corrrespondence to be found in another column that the unfortunate events attendant on the burial of Mr. Fitzpatrick were the result of some accident or faulty information, and that on this being set right the funeral service was at once performed at the dead man's grave. Meantime, the protestations and wild declamations that the an ti- Catholic world are making concernning the matter might reasonably lead to the belief that many of them were looking forward themselves with delight to the privilege of Catholic burial, and were filled with terror at the thought of being deprived of it. Anti-Catholic fury commonly carries with it its 1 own punishment in the stupidity it makes those affected by it accountable for.

On Friday a horse caught by the cowcatcher of the 4.40 train from Balclutha to Clinton, threw the engine off the line and down an embankment of some ten feet deep. The stoker, a young man named Joseph Woodcock, was found lying dead under the tender, and a man named James Blackwood bad his leg broken. Much sympathy is felt for Woodcock's mother, and a subscription has been set on foot in her aid. OCR contemporary, the Dunedin Evening Star, in reviewing the events of the past year alludes to the sympathy felt in England con-

cerning the President's death as follows : " England mourned with her separated sister as for a common father." By what process, we want to know, does a rebellious daughter turn into a " separated sister." May it always be done by the dropping of a tear in common 7 But success, to be sure, can do anything. We are anxious to learn what it will effect in the case of Ireland,

Among certain journalistic changes announced in Canterbury we find the appointment of Mr. M. Donnelly as sub-editor on the Christchurch Press. Mr. J. M. Twomey, we learn, has purchased the Temuka Leader, which we expect to find prosper under his skilful management.

The Registrar is reported to have uttered an important truth by a slip of the tongue at the opening of the Irish Land Commission Court. He said " I now declare the Court of the Land League open." It was all very well for those who were present, including the Judicial Commissioner, to laugh, but they must have known at the same time that the Court waß in fact a result of the Land League, without which it would never have come into existence. There will be more to laugh at as reasonably, perhaps, before the Land League has been stamped out, which as yet it by no means is — by no means.

The utterances reported of a certain member of the Parliament of New South Wales named Dillon, and who it seems passes for a Catholic, respecting Mr. Fitzpatrick's burial, remind us again of how the Church is a great net filled with good and bad fish. We all know what the nature of the bad fish is, and how its presence salutes the nostrils from afar.

Mb. Parnell has not been removed from Kilmainham as reported.

Guiteau declares himself to have been insane when he shot the President. The hunger for his execution, however, seems too strong to allow of a reprieve, even were he proved to be a madman. Its strength and extent is hardly honourable to the people of the States ; it would become them more to feel an anxiety that the wretch might be found not accountable for his action.

The s.s. Penguin was brought up to Dunedin through the newly dredged channel on Friday, giving a sufficient proof of the success of the deepening of the harbour.

The Government have declined the request of the Otago members that the re-leasing of the Otago runs should be deferred until the Land Act had been altered and the question of the pastoral lands further considered. The pastoral monopolists are well aware that possession is nine tenths of the law, and they are evidently determined to maintain it. We admit, however, that any interference with the squatters which would dispossess them before settlers fit to replace them could be found, or in any way injure the production of wool, would be a serious matter, and the whole affair requires careful handling, and cool and moderate consideration — more, we fear, than it may perhaps receive from legislators desirous of cutting a good figure before the populace, or otherwise astride of a hobby.

A BOY named Binden has been fatally hurt at Masterton by the fall of a tree which he had been invited by his uncle to see him fell.

The preparations at Grange-Gorman have apparently been made none too soon. Seven members of the Ladies' Land League have been arrested, and, we conclude, sent to the prison in question. The Irish landlords, meantime, are denouncing the reductions of rent made by the Land Court as confiscation, but as they hold out the hat to Government, and beg for compensation, they will hardly be looked upon as inclined to rebel. Poor fellows, they are to be pitied for being able to obtain only the worth of their acres.

An accident occurred at the Bluff regatta on Tuesday, by which Mr. A. Robinson was drowned.

We clip the following paragraph from one of our daily contemporaries ; it furnishes another illustration of the advantages of secularism : — '• Great barbarities, rivalling those of Dotheboy s Hall, have been discovered through the exertions of Mr. Burr, a member of the London School Board, in St. Paul's Industrial Schools, an establishment placed under the jurisdiction of the School Board. Disclosures since made point to the existence of an official ring among the members of the Board, who did their utmost to stifle inquiry into the present case. The Home Secretary has closed the school, and written a letter strongly censuring the School Board, public confidence in which is much shaken."

The Caledonian sports held, as usual, on the three first days of the week, at the society's ground South Dunedin, were again this year highly successful. The number of visitors was very large and everything went off with the utmost satisfaction to all who were present.

At the meeting of the Otago Land Board held on Wednesday, Messrs John Duncan and Robert Stout who have been recently appointed, sat for the first time. The following applications were granted : that of Edward M'CafErey for a 21 years' lease of sections 8, 9, and 16, block V. Mid-Wakatip ; those to purchase agricultural leases of John Galbraith, sections 31, 32, 33, block V,, and 49, block VI., Tuapeka West; F. S. Marryatt, section 15, block IV., Tuapeka West ; George Matueson, section 24, block VI., Tuapeka East ; Alex-

ander Fraser, section 73, block V., Tuapeka Bast ; John M'llattie, section 39, block XVIII,, Tuapeka Bast ; Jane Meiklejohn, section! 16 and 35, block XIII., Mid-Wakatip ; Daniel M'Clusky, sectioA 33, block X., Tuapeka East ; that of William Hodgson (exchanged for deferred payment license), section 97, block 11., Table Hill ; that of Robert Wilson, to transfer license to James M'Kenzie to Quarry Stone, from block IV., Oatnaru ; that of George Adams to purchase a deferred payment; lease of section 15, block X., Maerewhenua ; that of J. F. Kitching, for renewal of sawmill license in the Rankleburn and Glenkenich districts (at 4s per acre over 250 acres.) The following were referred to the Warden to report : (1) A petition from Hyde to have sections 41 and 42, block VII., Rock and Pillar district, used as a racecourse and recreation reserve, withheld from sale as a permanent reserve, there being promise of the need of a township and school, owing to settlement on the east of the Taieri River ; (2) the application of D. J. Smyth to purchase one acre of section 21, block XL, Chatton. The application of John M'Rae to purchase sections 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, and 16, block L, Tarras, was recommended for the Governor's approval. On the application of Thomas Dalziel it was resolved that the Governor be recommended to group sections 2 and 3, block XI., Tuapeka West, under the 6th section of the Land Act. On the request of Mr. John Hall it was referred to the District Land Office to report generally on unsold land within block XL, Tuapeka West as to its suitability for deferred payment. A letter from the Minister of Lands on the subject of the interior runs was postponed for discussion to the next meeting.

The Rev. W. B. Purton, 0.5.8., intends Tisiting the Peninsula district within the next few weeks, and has kindly promised to collect on behalf of the presentation to his Lordship the Bishop in that neighbourhood. The Rev. Father has promised to do this on account of the scattered nature of the locality and recognising the difficulties which the general committee would be subjected to in visiting the district. The hon. secretary has received a letter from the Rev, T. Kehoe, wherein he states the willingness of the Riverton people to do their utmost in the matter of the presentation.

Letters received in Dunedin by the Suez mail from bis Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese announce that the Bishop, at the desire of the Holy Father, had determined to remain in Borne for the canonisation which was to take place in the Sistine chapel on December Bth, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. His Lordship, in that case, could hardly be prepared to leave Rome as early as he expected, and can not reach Dunedin before the end of February, at the earliest.

The new year was well commenced in Nelson by the laying of the foundation stone of St. Mary's Church, which is to replace the building lately destroyed by fire. The stone was laid by his Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese, who was assisted by the Rev. Fathers Garin, Mahoney, and O'Malley, S.J. We shall give further particulars in an early issue.

The liation heavily condemns certain cases of malicious injury to cattle, which, though at rare interval , continue to be reported in the Irish Press. He truly says :—": — " They are mean, base, and cruel ; any man or boy capable of putting bis hand to sucb a piece of barbarity must be very low down in the scale of civilisation, and must have very much that is evil in his nature." " The cattle-hougher," he continues," is, in fact, an ally of Irish landlordism. By his misdeeds the case of the Irish landlords is materially helped in Parliament, on the platforms, and in the Press, and the case of 'tllie labourers and tenant farmers is grievously injured.

His Lordship the Bishop of Dunedin, we learn from the London Tablet, was for some days in the beginning of November the guest of the Redemptorist Fathers at Clapham.