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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 42, 6 February 1885, Page 15

I) is Lordship, the Bishop of Dunedin will hold a visitation at Oamaru on Sunday next.

A High Mass of Requiem for the repose of the soul of the late Sev. Father M'Guinness S.M. was celebrated at St. Patrick's Church Greymouth, of which district the deceased priest had for so long been Parish Priest, on Thursday January 15 ; the Rev. Father Rolland S.M. Reefton, acting as celebrant, with the Rev. Fathers O'Donnell, Ahaura, and Walshe, Kumara, as deacon and sabdeacon respectively, and the Rev. Father Bowers, Ghristchurch, as blaster of Ceremonies. The Rev. Father Carew S.M. P.P. conducted the choir, and the celebrant preached an eloquent panegyric, in which his touching allusions to the life and labour* of Father M'Gainnes3 deeply affected a large congregation. In our next issue we shall commence the publication of a work on Lourdes, containing a medical inquiry into several of the cares alleged to have baen miraculously performed there — by R.H. Bakewell Esq., M.D. of Christchurch. The following letter written in approval of the publication by His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington nas been received by the writer:— Dear Dr. Bakewell,— I have read cursorily yet very attentively— l need not say with great pleasure — the introduction to your work on Lonrdes. I think your object an excellent one, and likely to be productive of a good result in the minds of many. Your work is thoroughly impartial, and, though the production of a sincere Catholic, severe and searching in Us criticism of the cases from a purely medical point ot view. Th« conclusion is obvious ; medical science is powerless to explain the facts, and a supernatural agency is suggested as the only valid explanation. I hope ycur patient labours will be crowned with success, Hoping you are well, I remain, yours faithfully iv Jesus Christ f Francis Redwood.— Wellington, April 20, 1884. It is reported that Mr. Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, has given it as his opinion that Mr. Parnell and his party should denounce the dynamitards and their work. A tolerably severe denunciation of them had, however, already been made _by the Nationalist leaders, and we give an example of it in another place, taken from United Ireland. Such outrages are there stigmatised as diabolical crime, and it is pointed ont how they have probably been the work of men employed to commit them in opposition to the national cause, and to keep op the feeling necessary to the continuance of oppression and injustice in Ireland, Mention is, further, made of the way in which the dynamitards have baffled the police. And it must be admitted that, supposing the execrable criminals in question, for whoever they be and on whatever pretence they act, they are execrable criminals, to be Irish-Americans — who, of all men, it should be easy to detect on their arrival in the country and to watch daring their stay there— the skill of the English police must be very deficient, or their ardour in the service of the Government that employs them very weak. If the police, in short, be not accomplices, in a greater or lesser degree, they are good for nothing. The apprehension of an Irish-American, known to have frequented the Tower, whether he be found guilty or not, does not in the least lighten the suspicion alluded to— but while the case is sub judtoe we cannot, of course, discuss it freely. Decidedly the difficulties of private interpretation, and the keenness of mind, aud even something more, necessary for private interpreters become more and more apparent. We now learn from a rev. Wesleyan minister, preaching in connection with the Conference in Dunedin the other evening that the inspiration of Holy Writ is not continuous. We had already been taught by the learned body of the revisers that the text is coriupt in many places, and we had always known that what was admitted to be the genuine word of God was found capable of many meanings. The interpreter, therefore, must have a certain instinct for the discovery of inspiration, he must be also a rips scholar, and able to form sjund judgments and discern between various opinions, and wa need hardly wonder of differences continue to prevail or even increase. It would seem, nevertheless, an easy thing to decide that a book such as Protestants describe the Bible as being, would never have been given by a wise and merciful God into the hands of men for every one of them to live or die by it, as he hit on the right interpretation or missed it. A just and merciful God do°s not mock His creatures. The Strasburg clock still continues to attract many visitors in Dunedin. The various contrivances and interesting exhibitions in connection with it form the constant subject of wonder and admiration, and all who see it consider themselves well rewarded by the result of their visit. We are glad to learn that Mr. Thomas Bracken has determined to settle down once more in Dunedin. Mr. Bracken has become joint proprietor of our contemporary the Evening Herald, and already, ' under his abla management, a very perceptible change for the better has taken place in that paper. The addition of remarkably well written notes on current topics is an especially interesting feature. The expectation that the world was about to embalm the memory of another Charlotte Corday, a second " angel of assassinatien, has been in some degree checked by O'Donovan Bossa's declaration that the Englishwoman who shot him acted in anger because the London explosions had failed to kill anyone. If this prove true, the act will probably turn out to have been that of a maniac, foj itisjcharit.

able to suppose that madness only could account for so fiendish a state of mind as that of a woman driven f uriou3 because multitudes of her own,kith and kin bad not been torn in pieces. Meantime, we, of course, cannot approve of Lynch law under any shape or form but it must be admitted, that if Rossa had anything to d > with the explosions he has received his deserts only.— On the other hand, if he had nothing to do with them, he at least exposed himself by his infamous declamation, to the vengeancs that has over taken him. Oar pity for him, therefore, can only be that deserved by a criminal irregularly but not unjustly punished. Dr. SchwabtzbA-CH, who has returned from a tour of the principal hospitals of Europe, in which be has been able to study the results of all the newest and most approved remedies for the various diseases of the eye, ear, or throat, is at present visiting Christchurch, where he may be consulted for a short season.