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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 14, 25 July 1884, Page 17

The Nation of June 7th speaks as follows concerning the laf« dynamite explosions in Loodon :—' There is, as there should be a chorus of execration against the men who could for alleged po'itic I purposes have recourse to the cruel and stupid expedient of blowing np public and private building* in the midst of a crowded city But ia the wild language of panic which ij freely Tented in relation to those atrocities we meet with utterances which are quite as wicked as the action of the dynamitards themselves. Incitements to re •pmals upon Irishmen in England, suggestions calculated to arouse English mobs to -.'iolenca against the occupants of the Irish quarter* are just as abominable, and just as well calculated to lead t« dettruc' tion of property and the murder of innocent persons, as the manufacture and use of dynamite. Yet in the columns of the English papers we find such dreadful incentives freely scattered. Tha?the folly of somo of those journals is equal to their wickedness is shown by the.r allegat.on that it is specially incumbent on the Irish nationa party to come out in deprecation of the dynamite outrages. ThTy «^t t° know very well that the Irish national party have no «£ possibility for any policy but their own, and that over the councils of the dynamite party they have no sort of influence or control r We 7 ? antiC J Pat / d TQOUrT QOUr laSt iBSUe ' "*■ the Weßt Australiaa £2? ?' £OTd ° f June 26 ' the Pwwwioii of the Most Holy Hacraaßnt t Qrongu the g rDUnds of 0 Qn ft

of Corpus Cbristi was a magnificent ceremony. The day was beautifully fine ; so a large number of the Catholics of the City went down by special train, and with a large contingent from Fremantle took part in the procession. His Lordship the Bishop, assisted by the Very Rev. Father Gibney, V.G,, and the Rev. Fathers Kelly and Duff, gave Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to the kneeling multitude at four altars erected in different parts of the grounds. The choir, under the management of Mr. Wolff, sang the various hymns of the Benediction Service in a very effective manner. We see in an Anglican contemporary a notice of a certain prder compiled for a "Flower Service," and in which the following appears :—" The rubrics in thn little Office provide that 'the priest shall receive the offerings of flowere, and humbly present them before the Holy Table."' On revient tovjours d ses premieres ainoxers. And was there not a time when the mistletoe also entered into the peculiar worship of England ? To make offerings of flowers to a table is indeed suggestive. In reference to an advertisement which appears in another column for a manager and matron for St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson, it Bbould be understood that the manager in question will not be necessarily expected to teach in the school, as teachers will be otherwise supplied. The matron, also, will be furnished with all the hands required for the cooking and the in- do ->r work of the establishment generally. The whole institution will be under the immediate supervision of the Rev. Fathers Garin and Mahoney. A pbivate letter from Arrowtown informs us that the Gallant Tipperary claims look remarkably well, and are considered the most promising in the district. A new bond of union between Ireland and Scotland has jnst been formed in the inauguration in Dublin of Caledonian sports, which proved very successful. The advantages of life in Ireland Were made very evident to a number of the competitors who, on their arrival in Dublin, were taken into custody for carrying daggers, with which they had come prdrided for the game's, but to retain which they were obliged to take out licenses. Mb. Stout's return for Dunedin Bast on the irreligious ticket— for he may be looked upon as so returned since Mr. Green has certainly been defeated on the religious ticket — is to us a convincing proof of what we had long suspected— that is, that the faith of their fathers no longer lives in the hearts of the male majority of this city. Religious in appearance they may still continue — habit makes it comparatively easy for them to do so ; mothers and wives insist upon it, respectability demands it, and .interest recommends it.— But the spirit is dead within and the cause of the gospel is no longer a rallying cry. Among such a people the mere reading in routine of a few verses of Scripture to their children daily may well fulfil all the requirements of conscience. If there were wanting a proof of the dense stupidity and the flagrant ingratitude of the electors of Dunedin, it has been afforded in the fact that Mr. James Gordon Stuart Grant received one vote only in his contest for Dunedin Central. Mr. Grant, no doubt, in his native modesty gave his own voto to so neon e else, and someone else gave his vote to Mr. Grant — Mr. Bradshaw, most' probably, for, if Mr. Grant bestowed bis vote in support of the author of the Factory Act, is it not natural to suppose that Mr. Bradshaw voted in admiration of the author, inventor, and carrier of the eight hours* labour system ? But Mr. Grant has been shamefully neglected. There was at hand a candidate who had given to Otago its first faint ideas— very faint ones— of the advantages of a classical education, who, as a member, could neither b 3 bought nor sold, who alone could have done all the talking required during a session, and would, undoubtedly, have doa<j agreat deal more than was required, and who, at a moment's notice at any time, would have been able to tell any man in the House, without respect for persons or parties, and in the plainest language possible, what was his precise value both in tha eyes of God and man. — Dunedin has, indeed, lost a famous opportunity, and remains burdened with ingratitude and stupidity. A COBEKBP9NDENT wrote to one of our contemporaries a day or two ago, in effect, that the " unadulterated " text of JHoly Scripture was an undeniable need in the public schools. But where is this good correspondent or his friends to find that unadulterated text ? If | it had existed in the Authorised Version, for example, no revision would have been found necessary ; but a revision of the New Testament has bean made, and that of the Old is approaching its completion. Is it to be found in the original languages in which the Scriptures were written ? The Greek text, at least, on which the revisers have chiefly relied, is the Vatican Codex, a manuscript supposed to have been brought, some four hundred years ago from the Bast to Rome by Cardinal 'Bessarion—but of whose authenticity Catholic theologians have no high opinion, holding it to have been probably a copy made hurriedly on the order of Constantino and altered to suit the Arian leaningj of Busebius to whom the order was issued. All that is available, then, for the use of the schools is the imperfect translation, of doubtful originals, and. how, t therefore, Bhall the •• unadulterated " text be forthcoming ?

Thjs Evening Star has been gushing, over Mr. Bradsbaw, the new member for Dunedin Central, and championing his cause in a manner, that, considering the gentleman is not a follower of Major Atkinson's, seemed rather astonishing,— The explanation, however, is doubtlesß to be found in the fact, as fact we suppose it is, that Mr, Bradshaw had received an autographic letter of admiration from the autocrat of all the Eussias — and somebody opposing Mormonism has perhaps got a letter of admiration from the Grand Turk.— But such. a distinction as that could not but win for Mr. Bradshaw the Star's warmest support. Our contemporary, as w« all know, a£eetß the tone of good society in a way hardly to be encountered elsewhere outside of May fair, and we shall not be surprised at any moment to find the head of King Charles the F,irst, if not the disjecta membra of the late Czar, cropping up in his columns as irrepressibly as in the manuscript of Mr. Dick. Net, of course, through the writer's insanity, but through his aristocracy pure and simple.— lt was all on account of the Emperor of Russia, then, and a great consolation to his Imperial Majesty Mr. Bradshaw's return will certainly be.— He'll issue a " ukase " mayba in gratitude to the Star. We clip the following from the Bruce Herald of theclßth inst : —In reference to Mr. Hornsby's statement that a Catholic boy.edu* cated at a denominational school would not be allowed to compete at a Civil Service examination, Mr. Habens has written as follows to an enquirer :—<« There is no foundation whatever for the assertion that a Catholic boy educated at a Catholic school would not be eligible or allowed to compete at a Civil Service examination. The Government of New Zealand do not recognise any Church or any faith as entitled to precedence of any kind, and treat all men alike, as far as their religious professions are concerned." This ig a very easy way oE tiding over the difficulty, but Mri Habens* answer is anything but satisfactory. No doubt the Government, as such, acts with impartiality in such matters, but can the same be said of the heads of departments, and of the other officials whose duty it is to attend to such affairs ? There are wheels within wheels, and we hare not the slightest doubt that Mr. Hornsby's assertion was founded on facts. The Dominican Convent Boarding and High Schools will re-open on Monday next, the 28th inst. It is requeeted.that pupils may be punctual in their attendance. Oue readers by referring to the letter of our Auckland correspon-dent-will see that in New Zealand we are blessed with at least one phenomenal "Catholic." The famous Dane O'Grady it will be remembered was d d glad that ha had a country to sell to tie British Government ; Mr. Tole, and with Btill more appropriateness is evidently d d glad that be has a soul o cell to the Orangemen' We wish each of them joy of their bargain, and all the credit that is respectively and mutually due to them. Mr. Tole, in fact, has been pilloried by the Orangemen as an example of Catholio meanness-and perfidy. And so, after all, the " Bible and Boer " did not go together in the contest for Dunedin East. Mr. Stout, it appears, had his mind made up to resign his place on the licensing bench in the event of his being electe ~a fact that, no doubt, inflnencod the vote of the publicans' party considerably. The subscription list of the Gore Presbytery Fund has come t» hand too late for insertion in our present issue. It will appear next week. Modern, Society gives us the following :— " In olden times, ladies always spoke of their friends of the opposite sex as ' gentlemen,' and gentlemen talked of ' ladies.' Now a lady who talked among her equals of an acquaintance a* * a gentleman,' would be considered to be either extraordinarily old-fa3Moned, or else never t9 have lived in, quite a good set. Of course, in speaking to a Bervant, she would mention a male-friend as a * gentleman,' but never to an equal. For example, a girl would say to her mother, ' a man who was here this morning told me,' etc. Or she vioald ask, 'How many men have you invited to dinner ? ' But to a servant she would sayj ' Some gentlemen are coming to dinner,' ' a gentleman who was here last night.' The nomenclature of the gentle sex in the mouths of the stranger is not so easily fixed. A man speakß always of a 'clever woman,' 'a. good woman,' « a cultured woman,' «a pretty woman but in speaking to inferiors, he, of course, uses the word » lady * ' We in the colonies, then, all of us, speak continually, and without exception, to our inferiors !