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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 8, 13 June 1884, Page 25

Dressmaking Department.— Mrs. Carter is now making Dresses for 12s 6d. If you have hitherto been unable to get fitted properly, give us a trial. Perfect fit. Newest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed Splendid New Stock of Drpss Materials and New Dress Trimmings. A really good article supplied at the lowest prices in the city. Carter and Co., iteady-Money Drapera, George Street, Dunedin. — [ADVT.] Lord O'Hagan's book is out. It is nothing more than a collection of essays and addresses covering a long space of time. The principal paper is an elaborate defence of Tom Moore, in which his alleged inconsistency is proved to be fidelity of the strongest type. He shows plainly that Ireland's poet would never accept a jot of the aid pressed on him by influential friends, and that the pension he received from the literary fund was as much his right as it; is the Queen's to.be on the civil list. — Pilot. As a specimen of Ihe *ort of criticism to which the Prim Minister is being treated by the Conservative Press, take the following from Vanity Fair :— " On Monday night the Grand Old Pharisee — having providentially recovered his voice for the purpose— stood up in the House of Commons, and with tears in his voice condoled with the bereaved Queen and the widowed Princess on the loss of the Duke of Albany. In graceful periods and well-chosen phrases he paid a tribute to the worth of the departed Prince, and dwelt upon the loss which the mother and the widow had sustained. It is well. But there are widows of Ids making, mothers who have been left childless by his act and order — there are thousands of them, English and Arab, whose dearest ones now lie dead in the deserts of the Soudan. For these he had no thought, for these no word. They had served the purpose of his faction and his place, and were dead and done with. And so he came to Parliament, and, raising his bloodstained hands to heaven, called the legislators of England to witness* how deeply he could feel as a courtier, how little he recked as a, human being of human life."