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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 47, 21 March 1884, Page 15

On tne festival of the Patron Saint High Mass was celebrated at Sfc. Patrick's Church; South Dunedin.— The Rev. Father Pm-ton 0.5.8., acting as celebrant, with the Rev. Fathers Walsh, and Lynch respectively as deacon and subdeacon. The ceremonies were carried out in a very edifying manner, the decorations of the altar and sanctuary, as usual in this church, being also in admirable taste A sermon suitable to the occasion was preached by Father Lynch ' At St. Joseph's Church, Dunediu, Masses were celebrated at 7 8 and 11 a m^-the Rev Father Burke delivering an eloquent panegyric on Sfc. Patrick at last Mass. In the evening there were vespers and Benediction of the most Holy Sacrament. On Wednesday —the Feast of St. Joseph— the accustomed ceremonies took place. The Most Rev. Dr. Moran returned from Wellington on Wednesday morning. Owing to the lengthy report we publish to-day of the ceremonies at Wellington, we are obliged to hold back several items of interest, and must claim the indulgence of our readers for any omission they may notice from our columns. The members ot Dunning's Opera Company will give a sacred concert on Sunday evening in the Princess Theatre, Dunedin for the benefit of the Benevolent Institution. The object is a most deserving one, and it is to be hoped the public will give it a full support. The Jack-ass, has been avenged then.— The Dublin Freeman* Journal has been cast oufc of the Athenajuin at lavercargill and the Field ordered instead.— la common gratitude the editor of this newspaper should furnish his new subscribers -with a few articles on the cultivation of the thistle which, a* we know, is preferred to oats in certain quarters, and we know the reason why.' The following which we clip from the Pilot is suggestive a* to the ends for which a good deal of the cramming of the period is being carried on. « A Boston merchant writes, in regard to the question of woman's work, that he has tried to find a young woman qualified to fill the position of a stenographer, but without successlinally he engaged a young man who is a rapid phonographer and good scholar, at a salary of seven dollars a week. The successful (?) candidate has had seven years of practical business experience He who runs may read the moral of this, that « light and genteel ''work is poor work for a yoan ? man of any braius or ambition." Here is an item of news that the powers who rule the cable have taken good card not to send to New Zealand. « London Jan. 31 1884 w^ Spa TT CC i h f i° m Toh f? m 0 onth e island of .vlull, one of the Hebrides Islands, says that mx men belonging to a secret Society of Mull have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to destroy public buildings with dynamite and to subvert Her Majesty's Government " The mind of the Boston Pilot toward* the dynamite faction of so-called nationalists may be plainly discovered in the following paragraph :— « The Irish World recently printed a portrait with a black border round it, under which was inscribed, • Justice Denaan the man who murdered O'Donnell.' The portrait was an excellent one of Mr. Charles Russell, Q. C. the counsel who so ably defended O'Donnell ! Let us hope the irony of fate will be carried out no further, and that the missionaries of the < Emergency Fund ' will not make a similar mistake when they come to ' strike that blow.' "

We owe the following paragraph to our contemporary the Dunedin Evening Star :—lt: — It appears that in New South Wales, as in New Zealand, the expenditure on national education is rapidly expanding to alarming proportions. The Minister of Public Instruction for New South Wales requires this year a vote of £845,752, an advance of over 20 per cent, upon last year's vote. A fourth of the children attend Roman Catholic schools, and a considerable number are taught in private schools, to which the State contributes nothing. The actual cost is about £4 per annum." Our contemporary might have added that in New' Zealand Catholics in addition to being plundered for the support of the State Schools, are fined heavily in the shape of .taxes imposed on their school buildings, by means of which) nevertheless a large sum of money is annually saved to the nonCatholic population. The current number of th&N.Z. Illustrated, JMstvs contains some charming views of the scenery of the Colony, and is in all respects most interesting.