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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 25, 10 October 1884, Page 20

Thecampaign againstthe wretched, spirtless Whig-cum-Tory comS The contest for the aldermanship of the South Ward, rendered vacant by the death of Alderman f ? g ll' to x ° k J> lace on Monday last, and it resulted in a signal victory for the Natwnal party. Mr. Hooper, the standard blarer of the popular party, was returned by 143 votes to 66 given to the coalition nominee. Bravo Cork! The position of councillor, which now become, vacant by the elevation of Mr. Hooper to the aldermanship, will almost certainly fall to the share of another Nationalist. His name is Mr. James Dwyer, jnnior. Alderman Hooper stands sponsor tor him, and that in itself is a sufficient guarantee of the earnestness and throughoess of Mr. Dwyer's patriotism. We are glad to think that the cringing, servile West-Britonism of Cork will in a short time disappear before the assaults of the sturdy, robust Nationalists of the Southern city. Mr. Hooper, in returning thanks f or his election delivered an address which stamped him as one of the ablest speakers ot theday. One of his passages was particularly happy— that in which he said that the Whigs of Ireland reminded him of the J?n«f -7 » ™ "neither the pride of ancestry nor the hope of posterity. We trust the rumour is true which associates Mr. Hooper's name with the representation of Kinsale.— Nation, Aug 9. .His Holiness the Pope, who has been grieved by the sorrowful accounts given him by Mgr. Robert, Bishop of Marseille*, has sent to tnat t-relate a sum of twenty thousand francs to assist the poor and suffering in the cities of Marseilles and Toulon. A second ve B sel of the German navy has been ordered in pursuit or tbe English fismng smacks, who have hitherto ehown their superior seamanship in baffling their pursuers, who charge them with acts of P Tv?- P / aglng a Germai » provision cutter in the North Sea. „, A s°f one of the P arißh PrießtßP ri eBtB of Aries, has lost his life wnite mlnlbng his parochial duties amongst the cholera-stricken datients of that town. Mgr. Forcade, Archbishop of Aix, officiated at tbe inneral, afterwards spending several hours in the cholera wara or tbe hospital. What change has come over those since Wednesday afternoon lectures given by Bishop Moorehouse, of Melbourne ? At the onset they were fast merging to Unitarianism. Was this the reason why the crowds flocked to here 1 Then the Yen. Archdeacon of Geelong, I n i2 l5 nt T by lefcfer to the B 'Bhop, per favour of tbe Melbourne Araus told his Lordship what the people were saying about him. A letter', altogether unworthy of Dr. Moorhouse, was the uncharitable rejoinder bmce the charitable rebuke the Wednesday afternoon lectures cease to draw "fashionable audiences." A people famishing for novelty and one allowed dispense it. Too bad. Tasmanian Catholic Stan-