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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 13

Messrs. Whittaker Bros. Lambton Quay, Wellington, have received a work that should p.ove very useful to schools and choirs — that is, a new hymn book with music. They h ive also on hand a large and handsome stock of books suitable for school prizes. Mr. Parnell on the Land Act is good reading (see another page). After all the parade of reform, the Irish leader expos s the cruel deceit of this legislation, and stamps the Act as a fraud arid a danger. After two years of the working of the Land Act over 01,000 judgements have been given fur fixing a fair rent, and only 47,000 agreements out of court have been registered ; that is to say, out of a ' total of 500,000 applications by the farmers, 100.000 have been settled in two years, working with a staff soon to be reduced. " This means," said Mr. Parnell, "that while Parliament in 1:81 promised •to every tensnt that fair rents should be fixe f, four out of five of these tenants are still obliged to pay the old rack-rent." — Pilot. A learned Hindu reformer at present visiting. England delivered ajlecture before a distinguished Protestant and Catholic audience recently, and in the cour-e of it he sjjoke aa follows : " He could not say too much in praise of the Governor-General of India. It was doubtless known to all present that he was a Catholic, He had heard many people dislisked Lord Eipon because he was a Catholic, but in India they did not make such distinctions between' Catholics and Protestants. He generally found Catholic missionaries so hard-working, so devout, so accessible to everyone, that Catho icism on the whole was held in greater respect in India than any sect of Protestantism, and, therefore, Lord Eipon being a Catholic made no difference in India. He was so amiable, he was bo good, he was so just, that the people of India were learning to love him. The Viceroy walks about the streets there without any military guard to protect him. He was dressed like any Englishman, he carried nothing but his cane, and he was ktpt constantly bowing to the salutations of the people. This simplicity went a long way to endear the Viceroy to simple people. It was indeed a contrast to the religious divines who drove abroad in grand carnage?,' with all their embellishment and appuitenanccs, and who were not in sympathy with the people. They could not understand such a mode of life in the followeisof Him who led a life of poverty. "— Catlwlic Record,