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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 26, 26 October 1883, Page 5

Sunday, August 12, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception' Rowe street, Wexford, the Most Rev. Dr. Warren performed the interesting ceremony of blessing the magnificent peal of eight bells, which had been supplied by Messrs. Murphy, of Dublin, at the cost of the late venerated and revered parish priest of Wexford, Very Rev. James Roche. After the ceremony of blessing the bells and the ringing of them for the first time, amid the great joy of priests and people, High Mass Comm Pontifice, was commenced ; and the ceremonies were all carried out in the most solemn and impressive manner.

We know not whether Mr. Clifford Lloyd himself or the half dozen R.M.s and the different grades of police officers who the other day at the Shelbourne presented Mr. Lloyd with a jug and a salver, which he left behind him, as well as the ordinary policemen who gave him a diamond rinsr, whish he carried away with him, look the more foolish now that Mr. Lloyd is not going away after all. Re has the plate and the ring, but is not going to be Egyptian Home Secretary. They have his good-bye testimonial as to their good qualities, but they are to have their chief back again with them. He is worth two gone yet. It wasn't for the Home Secretaryship to the Khedive he was wanted at all, and for whatever post he would be taken (about which we are left in Egyptian darkness), it seems he valued that of a Superintendent Magistrate in Ireland asimore desirable. So he is coming back again. On the fiurrnise that there may have been persons officially connected with Mr. Lloyd who did not add their contribution of gold or gush to speeding the parting guest, would it not be convenient and becoming if Mr. Lloyd, in accordance with that sound Constabulary rule which prohibits testimonials, was transferred to another district for the remainder of his tenure of office ? He can there '• unpack his plate " and save it, by the exercises of restricted hospitality, from becoming " tarnished " without the imputation o£ motives of gratitude or otherwise. — Dublin Freeman.