TO THE EDITOR OF THE N. Z. TABLET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 14, 24 July 1885, Page 13

TO THE EDITOR OF THE N. Z. TABLET.

Sib,— l notice in this week's issue of your valuable paper, a letter from Dr. Bakewell, informing your readers that he will not contribute to your columns any more. When you reply that few will regret it, you speak the mind of the majority of your readers, — especially those who have followed Dr. BikeweU'r public utterances must ere now have come to the conclusion that the Doctor is a man of cnlture, with a grumbling disposition, which, unfortunately, is allowed to spoil his good work. Few will deny the good that has been done by the publicity that has been given in your valuable columns to the supernatural cures at Lourdes. But then the grumbling disposition manifests itself, and spoils a noble work which must have cost a great amonnt of exertion to put before the public. But, sir, this is not the only time that the Doctor has distinguished himself. Only a few months ago the same individual that says, '• I quarrel with no man for being a Nationalist " brought a motion forward at a meeting of the Canterbury Catholic Literary Bociety to censure the Executive of that Society, for daring to allow a nationalist meeting to be held in the Society's rooms. 1 would like to ask Dr. Bakewell to be consistent at lea -t. At the present time he stands in this | fix : to-day he would not quarrel with a man for being a nationalist ; yesterday he quarrelled with a number of men because they were nationalists. As regards the statement that you are injuring the Catholic cause in New Zealand, that is a statement which we will charitably suppose will be regretted in calmer moments. It is a statement that refutes itself. As you truthfully sa^, the Anglo-Saxon claims the right (and exercises it) to insttli:, misrepresent, and abnse, without the obligation to hear a hoiiietruth. In conclusion, you are to be congratulated on the firmness' you have shown.— l am, etc., A New Zeaiandeb. Christchurch, 20tb July, 1885.