MISLEADING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 30, 18 November 1887, Page 17

MISLEADING.

In the first page of the periodical called The Illustrated Catholic Missions there is a review of the Apostolate of the Marist missionaries in New Zealand. This review is misleading, as will be seen from the words which vre quote :—: — " In 1837 Mgr. Pompallier and Father Servant lett Wallis Island already known to our readers, and set sail to bear the Cross to New Zealand. In this new mission-field they found the .Natives as warlike as those they had left in the Pacific, and yet within a short period after their arrival they had converted as many as 5,000 Maories and established numerous Christian communities. Fourteen years later, or 1850, the Marist missionaries were called away from their successful work in the north of the island and placed in possession of the diocese of Wellington. In 1887 this territory was elevated into an Archbishopric and divided into the diocese of Wellington and that of Christchurch. So rapid has been the growth of Catholicity that these dioceses at present contain 40,000 Catholics, 28 parishes or stations, 100 churches or chapels, under 38 missionaries, and two bishops of the Society of Mary." People in New Zealand will laugh at the above paragraph and shrug their shoulders in amazement at the travesty of history it contains. One not aware of the facts would certainly come to the conclusion that the position of the Catholic Church in these two dioceses was entirely due to the Marist missionaries and their Maori converts. We in New Zealand know thst such is not the case ; but people in England, for whose instruction and edification The Illustrated Catholic Missions is published, wiU be surprised to hear that there are not one thousand Maori Catholics in these two dioceses, and only one Maori mission. They will be also astonished to learn that were it not for Irish Catholics and their children there would not be more than perhaps one Catholic parish or mission in all New Zealand, and that the position of the Catholic Church in New Zealand is mainly due to the faith, zeal, and generosity of Irish Catholics, whose presence in this country The Illustrated Catholic Missions entirely ignores. The Marist missionaries have their merits, and it is just and proper to recognise them, but it is simply monstrous in any public writer to give to them and their Maori converts the entire honour and credit which is for the most part due to Irish Cathol ■ -j.

The Moat Rev. Dr. Moraa, who spent last week, in examining the school of the Dominican nuns at South Duaedin, leavea for Queenstown this morning, where during tba ensuing week he will also examine the schools, and will administer thu Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday next. His Lordship will then proceed to Invercargill, where likewise, the achooli will be exjmiaed kj ki«

And whence he will go to Orepuki for the opening of the new church on Sunday the 27th, inst. On his return to Dunedia, the Bishop will go at once to Oamaru,to examine the.schools there, and on coming back thence to Dunedtn, he will examine St. Joseph's schools.

It is our pleasing duty again this week, to welcome to Dunedin three additional members of the community of Dominican nun?. Wo have further to announce that a still larger number of these ladies, are expected to arrive herein company with the Mother Mary Gabriel, in the course of the next week or two.

Thb programme of the concert announced by us as to take place in St. Joseph's schoolroom, Dunedin on Tuesday evening will be found in another place. It speaks for itself, and will be seen to have baen selected with great ta9te and judgment. As the musica] capabilities of the young ladies of the Dominican convent schools are well known it is not necessary for us to dwell on them, but we oan answer for it that a very excellent performance in every respect may be confidently looked forward to. The object also which is that of paying off a portion of the debt still due, owing to the necessary changes made in fitting up the old church as a schoolroom, itß original and proper destination, is one that must recommend itself to all who are intereatad in the work of education.

The fracas which occurred in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in the naming of Sir Julius Vogel, was a sufficiently painful incident It is to be hoped it was mauvait gout rather than mauvais genre, that Inspired the Member for Marsden's paltry question as to the aid still given to Sir Julius by certain public ■ervants. It may be unparliamentary to say that the question waß prompted by bad manners, but out of Parliament it is impossible to avoid perceiving that such is the least invidious explanation that can be given of it. That Sir Julius, under the circumstances, should become etcited was very excusable, and it is not clear that, until further provocation was given to him, he said anything that could he reasonably considered as derogatory to the House. To Bay that a man, even a member of Parliament, is wanting in a knowledge of manners is a very slight offence, and it required some trifling •tretch of the polite imagination to take it as an accusatiou of rudeness or glaring impropriety. The sentence, however, by which Sir Julius replaced his words when he had withdrawn them, was inrely indefinite enough to admit of the most favourable interpretation, To ■ay that a man, even a member of Parliament, shows an obvious want of knowledge of the usages amongst persons who are accustomed to good society, is to make a statement whose meaning hangs so much upon what is understood by the expression " good society," that is capable of almost any interpretation. There are people, for example, who would consider the society to whose usages members of the New Zealand Parliament, with one or two exceptions,are accustomed, as an utter canaille, [not to be mentioned in any tones above those of a disreputable whisper. Surely it is not necessary that the Members of the Parliament of New Z aland, in order to preserve the respectability of tneir House, should play at being lords aud ladies. Tne language used afterwards by Sir Julius is doubtful, and it may legitimately be questioned as to whether a cloak of silence should not be thrown over the drunken iubits which he stated to prevail among members, unless the House must be held up to the coutempt of the world. But it is evident that what had gone before Jed to this outburst made in a manner almost involuntary on the part of the transgressor. It is, on the other hand, siuch to be regretted, that a gentleman who bears so high a reputation for impartiality and ability in the Speaker's office as Sir. Maurice O'Rorke, Bhould for once haTe given cause to suspect that his ruling was in some degree biassed, or should have failed to perceive that an over-punctiliousnesi on his part wag not calculated to add to the dignity of the House. There is a difference to be observed in the degree of latitude allowed in such an assembly as the Parliament at Wellington, and the rigour to be maintained, for example, in a school of deportment over which a Turreydrop presides. But perfection is not to be found in human nature, and when a slip that occurs becomes doubly remarkable from its rarity, the situation should be duly appreciated.

The following telegram from Arrow came to hand last week on the morning after the Tablet had been published : The week' 8 return from the Gallant Tipperary claim was 77 ozs. amalgam, plates only. This company will send down their firsc cake beginning of next week. From reports to hand, tbe stone still continues to show improvement.

ACCOBDING to the testimony of Lord Randolph Churchil] speaking the other day at Easingwold, near York, the frozen meat trade has not prodnced much effect on the state of English markets. His Lordship said that although complaints were made of the low prices obtained tor stock the price of meat bad not fallen, and, he added, that the profit evidently went into the pocket of some middle■Mß, The spwkw rtbuked the agriculturists for their obstinaoj in

growing wheat, This, he said, owing to foreign competition, could never be made pay again in England— and he gave as an instance the case of India, where unlimited areas for tbe production of tbe grain in question existed, and which were being made more available every day for the purpose by tbe construction of new railways. But whether, as Lord Hai.dolph supposes, tbe natives of India will go on indefinitely half-starving tbemselvts on inferior kinds of pram while they grow wheat for export, is another matter, Some life, also, may sooner or later reanimate the dry bones of that backward country. The speaker's principal hope, however, for the resuscitation of agriculture was the revival of trade, which, he said, would produce a greater demand in tbe towns. On this aud pastoral farming he evidently based his hopes. How far the frozen meat trade may eventually interfere with such projects remains to be seen, but bb yet it has evidently not been taken into con%ideration by the English agriculturist or done anything to affect the state of the markets.

Mb. Healt, it seems, has been utterinp good wishes with respect to Lord Granard. He hopes his Lordship's mortgages will not leave him a brass farthing to bless himself with. But, considering how Lord Granard obtains his farthings of every coinage — that is, by eviction and tyranny — the blessing to be derived by him from such a source must be doubtful. Does Mr. Healy eh iritab y wish that Lord Granard may be deprived of every source whence he could bring down upon himself a curse ?

The Most Rev, Dr. Healy, Co-adjutor Bishop of Clonfert, writeg to the Times in correction of certain errors made in a report of an address delivered by him in the church of Clooncoo, near Woodford, in the County Galway. In the course of bis Lordship's letter, he speaks, among the rest, as follows: "I myself have never in any Bingle instance sought to interfere one way or the other between landlord and tenant." Yet the diocese of Cloafert embraces some of the worst districts for eviction in Connaught. Well, God forgive you, Dr. Healy I

The account of the affray at Mitchplstown taken from the telegraphic report of the Nev» York Tribuna and published by us some weeks ago, has been fully corroborated. Mr. Labouchere has written a very full description of what took place, which agrees in every point with tbe report alluded to. The particulars as given in the report, moreover, have been testified to on oath by several witnesses at the coroner's inquest, among the more remarkable of whom was Miss Manders, an English lady who is aa undergraduate of Newenham College, Cambridge, and a member of the Wolverbampton School Board. Thia lady gave her evidence very clearly, and concluded by expressing herself as an Englishwoman horrified and surprised at the high-handed proceedings of the police. " From an English point of view," she said, " having regard to the peaceablenes ß and goodwill of the people present at tbe meeting, I am confident that if the police had not exceeded their duty in what seemed to me a most unwarrantable manner the meeting would have passed off in perfect order, as similar meetings do in England." Mr.!) John Coubrough, a gentleman from Stirling, in Scotland, was also among those examined and whose evidence was in a similar strain. All these witnesses have most directly contradicted the statements made on the subject in the House of Commons by Mr. Balfour.

The struggle in Ireland has its ludicrous as well as its grave or terrible episodes. Mr. Balfour's encounter, for example, with Peggy Dillon, the Galway midwifp, is supremely ridiculous, and must give him in secret excessive annoyance. Indeed he has betrayed as much by tbe manner in which he contrived so long to avoid the writ issued, and by tbe evident consternation of his manner when he was at length caught and served with it in tbe very heart of his fortress, Dublin Castle. But even among the ludicrous particulars of this case there appear details that are grave and serious. The charge of boycotting a woman in her extreme need that the .Secretary brought against Mrs. Dillon , and for which, as libellous, Bhe now takes her action, was quoted by him as one of the worst that had occurred during the whole campaign, and as almost in itself justifying the passing of the Coercion Bill. Mr, Balfour, therefore, in being brought into contact with Peggy Dillon, and charged by her with lying, poses not only in a ridiculous light, but in one as well that contains very different elements.

The finiabii g touch should be given to the effect produced by the revelations made in the Lisdoonvarna case, by the fact that the raid, planned as it was by a paid agent of the Government, took place just in time to enable Mr, Balfour to announce it in the House of Commons, on the occasion on which he was called on to explain the action of the police at Mitchelatown. Let U9 join this damning fact with that other fact, testified to by the Informer Callinan, that he had been in the employment of the Government for the past five years, during which he had planned, besides this raid at Lisdoonvarna, many moonlight attacks in Kerry and Clare. We might look upoa it m » iast TeDgeano*, that the htad-comtable, who bin*

■elf had actual y paid the informer an instalment of bis wages earned in arranging the raid, was killed on the occasion, bat, like the informer, this wretched man was oaly a degraded tool of others. Vengeance to be complete, mast include man whose names do not and will not appear, if not those of the heads ot the Government themselves. But it is at least Huapioiouß, and goes far to esublish ilr. Balfour's right to the epithet " Blood?," applied to his name, that as we havo said, on the very day on which be wanted the detail-- of an outrage to set off in the House of Oomm >ns against tho3e of the action of the police at Mitchelstown, the rep jrt of this raid at L'sdoonvarna, planned by a paid agent of the Government, was ready to his hand. The marks of design are too apparent to escape notice.

It would seem that Britannia by no means in all cases rules the waves in a completely undispute I manner. N"oc to speak of the way in which American fishermen are dispjctlag themselves in Canadian waters,and American an boriies snapping up British sealers in Atnaricaa waters, Belgian fishermen are conducting themselves in a most outrageous and aggressive manner ia the North sea. Tearing nets ( boarding; with piiatical desigas, atie nutiue to run down boats, such are a few of the tricks with which thes* Belgians are accredited, an i the lon^-suffdring, but indignant Briton can obtain no redress. But these are the people to maintain whose i idependence England is pledged at any lime to un ltertaka a «ur. Verily Britannia's oceanrule, in this instance, at" leist, seems most ungratefully interfered with.

It is highly crelitable to the English Oitholic bidy that a large section ot them, didsi.isfi ;d at being c >nf juuJed with those who share the political views of the D ike of tfjrfolk, and are represented by the L>ndon Tablet, hive established a newspaper of their o.vn name l the Catholic Press, ami wtiich will ba conduc ed on the great principles advocated by Frederick Lucas. This is a step that cannot be too highly appreciate i, and whose complete success all the frienda of religion, as well as of a justaid iberal policy, must hearcily desire. Wuen ihe English democracy j nns tuuid wnti ihj Irisn people ie would be sad t > see tlie birrier raided b? iae London Tablet b 'tween Entrlish anl Irish (Jaihoiics maintaining its place unshaken. May the Catholic Press .horojghiy fulfil ihe object for wnich it was called into exiateuce.

The evidence of the infor ncr C illiian, as to his having organise i many raids in X rry and Core, dunug his five years of Governmen service, id particularly dami.iug from the f *ct that the raids committed in thusi coun i a were rttnaikable for tbe impossibility experienced by the police of ai resting the men concerned in them. There can bu no pie encu made, iheiefore, that ihey were planned for the purpose of giving up criminals to jus'ice, and it is plain that the t-ole obj ct with which they were airaug. d was that of supplying details of dibturbance thit might justify coercion-try measures, ana persuade the pub ie that the Irish weie a turbulent and evil-diepoaed people. That such tactics weie commonly employed by Dublin Uastle has always been known to ptople acquainted witti Irish affairs, but the fact in now indisputably published to the world in general. An t it fortunately comes at a time when it canuot fail to produce a telaDg effect.

The sad news that the dise.ise from which the Crown Prince of Germany hdS been for some time suffjriug ij of a malignant type will be received with universal s>rrow. His Imperial Hignneas is a m-in of a tru y noble character, and the happiest expectations had been formed as to nis su-icesS'oa to the crown. He was always known as opposed to the rigorous measures that distinguished tne coutrol of Prince Bismarck, and is eminent for his sp.rit of moderatijn and enlightenment. The Crown Princess, also, ou wnum this affl <; ion fulls heavily, is a la iy m jst deserving of respect aiid sympathy, in whom a p ;rfeot simplicity and kindness of heart are united to high mielh ctual powers. As Princess Eoyal of England* she waß boloved among the people, and tbe record of her life in Germany, ii no less honourable to her. bhould the Prince'B illoess prove speedily fatal, as seems but too probable, the consequence for Europe might be moßt suiious and disastrous. Nothing, apparently, would then intervene to prevent the certainty of war but the survival of the Emperor, now approaching the completion of his ninety-first year, and showing many signs of failing health. Prince William, who would succeed him, is said to be of martial disposition, and ambitious of military glory, and the accession of such a prince, at the present time, wutil 1 be hardly less likeiy t<> promote ati outbreak than was that .it his pro lecesaor. Froderifk 11. of Pr issia There are maay reasons, theiefore, way this decistou of thodjetors should be received with sorrow and appiehension.

It Bhoul'l be profi'ab'e t) the l-nver millions to read, mark, leara, and inwardly digest, as the Anglica-i collect stys, the admirable bits that fail to them from an upper world— the world, forexamp'e, where Colouel|Hughes-Hallett,Lord Colin Campbell,the Duke of Marlborough and othera of nobla standing, grow moie rank than even nature had

made them on, for instance, such over-fei'ding as was described a few years ngo in a magazine article by Lady John Manners, a member of the Bociety in which they move. We, therefore, cull a passage or two from tbe Whitehall Review, a weekly that explains to us the mind of aristocratic circles. The allusion is to the. meeting at Ennis, where the determination to repeat the Mitcbelstown murders was baulked to the great fury of Bloody Balfour's gang, and, as we may believe, reasoning from analogy, of Bloody Balfour himself, by the patience and ingenuity of the people and their leaders :—": — " The total collapse of the doughty leaders and leaguers,," says the Review, '* who were bent on talking the British Empire to pieces at Ennis on Sunday last fully proves the wisdom of our conclusion that the Irish rebels are a> mere handful of half-witted, no-hearted scoundrels who do not possess the proverbial pluck of a louse." And, again, it says " If dumb animali had to be tortured, the prowess of the National League knew no bounds. If bedridden men or women had to be massacred, the bravery of the National League reached its highest pitc*i. If pigs had to be purloined, the audacity of the National League was boundless. If peat- bogs were to be made quake, the pulse of the Nationil League b^a" furiously." But for our own part, we may add, if also the dirty ruffiauism ill-concealed beneath the pelt of a tuft-hunting London editor had to be brought out, the National League were the boys to do it, of which we have a sriking proof before us. Why, the cannibal giant of old, who wanted human guts for his garters, and human bones for his stepping stones, was a sucking-dove to such an editor as this, and the class he represents. They would have human guts for their very cravats, and bloody skulls to sip their tea out of. Not succeeding in getting them they rage in a cannibal manner, and nothing is too foul or filthy for them to say. Fortunately between tha strong hand that these fellowß for the moment possess, and the unarmed people whom they would slaughter, there now stands tha great Eughsh democracy and they dare not carry out the promptings of their spirit. Such is th^ lesson we receive, in the most arietecratic way possible, from the Whitehall Review.

The Archbishop of Dublin has exposed a fly-leaf published by the I. L.P.U.,*nd giving as a direct quotation from Cardinal Cul lea's rery words a passage antagonistic to Home Rule. His Grace has shown that the quotation was takea from an an mymous letter pubhsaed in the London Tablet, and assuming to quote Cardinal Cullen from memory , Ehe significiut point of the affair is however, that the Tablet perm tted not only the 1.L.P.U., but its gre it patron, the Duke of Norfolk, to m-tke this mistaken quotation, and said not one word in explanation.

These was a disposition shjwn in a good many Catholic quarters to make light of the off ma m ide at R)me to blacken the Irish cause, — and, especially, the pamphlets published by the Rev. Father Belaney were declared umies^rring of consideration As to the grounds that existed for such conn Unce, nevertheless, th« following paragraph, translated by the London Tablet from the Clvllta Cattoliam t the great Italian organ of the Society of Jesus, will sufficiently testify. The reference is to the mission of Monsigaor P -rsico :—": — " Several pamphlets have been published in Rome, both in English and in Italian, by Eiglish Catholics, and are said to have been brought und^r the notice of the Pope in a sufficiently pleasing way. The efface of thes3 pimphlets has been to show that the Lisb in general, both priests and laymen, are inclined to Soculism, a;id allowed themselves to bi led by tnose whose religious principles are far from being Catholic, or even Ohristian. And further, it was said that the people were losing their former Catholic spirit and were ready for au) tiling. Of these pamphlets one at least was published in the two languages, aide by side. From such facts, and from many rumours afloit, it is argued that the object of the present mission was to see to what extent these things were founded, and specially to clear up the following points : — Whit progress has Socialism made ? Has the religions spirit of old disappeared ? And, in addition, in Kerry, up to what point the Land League is responsible for the excesses committed there." We see, therefore, that the efforts of Father Belaney and hia friends were not quite so contemptible as some people imagined. They actually obtained consideration in tha highest quarters, and had it not been for the wisdom and prudena* of the Pope their result might have beeu disastrous in the extreme. But the Pepe's good will cannot excuse the apathy of the advocates of the Irish cause in this matter. If Almighty God approves of thosa wbo, while they trust to Providence, do not fail also to help themselves, we may be coavnee-d that tae Holy Father does not withhold hia appiobation from the man who follow a similar course of action.

The warning given by Mr. Labouchere, in apologising for hia inability to attend a meeting lately held at Wesiham, has not bein long vi finding ils fulfilment. Mr. Labouchere, o 1 the occasion la question, uttered a warning that the design of the Government to pat down all constitutional rights in Ireland would in due time includ* England also. And what has taken place in co meclion with the

meetings of tbe London unemployed proves the truth of his words. We do not allude to the arrests made in repressing the riots that were the consequence ot the hindrance given to tbe projected meetings. Although the particulars as yet t) hand do no*; justify us la forming any accurate conclusions, we may admit that these arrests were perhaps necessary, and made in preseiving or restoring the peace. But the prevention of the public meetings themselves and the arrest of Mr. tiaunders, the ex-member for Hull, sh< w that the Tories ara determined to employ the same discipline in Ire ] and and England. It remains to be seen, nevertheless, whether that charge of cavalsry recommended as the panacea for all popular requirements and as the salvation of the country by a certain old lady of the Tite-Barnacle tribe, in " Our Mutual Fiiend " will really succeed in bringing the Bnglish masses to their senses, or better still, in preventing their losing them. Meantime things are evidently not quite so ripe for a complete Tory triumph in England as they are in Ireland. The police, we are told, acted with great moderation, although the crowds were violent and dangerously armed, and although two members of the force were stabbed, and several of them severely hurt. There was no panic among the offbers, as in the ca c of the valiant Caplain Saagrave described by Mr. Labouchere as acting at Mitchelstown like a weak creature — but losing his head, nevertheless, in a murderous fashion, and there was no bullying as in the case of Mr. BrownriggThe Riot Act was regularly read, and the police did not «pen a fire on the people, but used their b itons only. But if a longer term of office makes the Tory party bolder we shall probably see the masses, as Mr. Labouchere warns them, treated more after the pattern of things in Ireland. The commencement at least has been fairly made.

I am glad (writes Mr. Labouchere in Truth') that so many Englishmen are travelling in Ireland. If they look about them they will learn three things: — 1. The Catholic priesthood are precisely the reverse of what is popularly supposed in England. In thei r manners and in their conversation they are refined and intellectual gentlemen, of the purest morals, well-disposed towards the empire, ■ingularly broad and tolerant in their opinions, hard working and Belf-sacrificing, Except in the very poor parishes, a Catholic priest has about £300 per annum ; and there are very few curates who have less than £150 per annum. The Irish consider that their priests have adopted a career which deprives them of all the joys of family life, and that they fully deserve all that can be done for them. 2, Tbe Irish peasantry are far more intelligent than the English peasantry. Now that opportunities are given to the children to go to school, a perfect craze for education has been developed. A youthful English agriculturist is glad when be can shirk school, and when he is at it he scrambles by rote through the lessons that he hates. A youthful Irish agriculturist would consider the deprivation of schooling to be the severest of punishments, and makes it his business ihoroughly to understand all that he is taught. Youn^ Ireland is far ahead of young England ; indeed, in their generous love of learning, I can only compare them with tba Scotch. 3. .-ome of the scenery of Ireland is equal to anything on the Continent. There is not a prettier spot on the globe than Glengariff, on Bontry Bay. Eccles' Hotel there is about the best in Ireland. It is situated on a sea-loch, shut in from the ocean by numerous islands, and surrounded by lovely hilli. The climate is temperate in summer and warm in winter.

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The Shamrock Hotel, Rattray street, Dunedin, is now conducted by Miss J. Gebbe, who has been this long time most favourably known in connection with the establishment. Under her management it will continue to deserve the patronage of the public as heretofore.

The White Cross brand of ginsrer ale made by Messrs. Thomson and Co., Dunedin, is particularly recommended as an agreeable and wholesome summer beverage. It has taken the prize againit all competitors.