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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 52, 20 April 1888, Page 20

Mr. A. Martinelli has opened a branch shop, for the convenience of his numerous customers, in High street, Dunedia. Mr. Martiaelli will receive there the orders with which he is favoured for the manufacture or repairing umbrellas aud parasols, and will engage to execute them as usual to the complete satisfaction of his patrons?

Among the Irish stnden^s at the Propaganda is a young student named McGca, who is said to be a wonderful philologist. At the recent Polyglot Academy he wrof j two Jubilee addresses, one in Irish an d the other in Uindostani, both of which were read. This interesting document has been placed among the Vatican archives. Never was grander celebration of St. Bridget's Day than that which took place last week in Rome on its 1303 rd recurrence, when Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, laid the corner-stone of tne church of a still greater patron of the Irish people— their glorious apostle St Patrick. Strangely enough, while that impressive ceremony 'was proceeding, the day was being honoured with special services in the old Church of St. Bride, London, which, since the time of ihe so-called reformation, has been in the hands of the Anglicans. St. Bridget's name, in its abbreviated form, Sc. Bride, is quite common in England —another proof of England's old time spiritual indebtedness to the Irish missionaries, who, wherever they went, naturally propagated their national devotions. A term of less agreeable association, derived from St. Bridget's name, is Bridewell, a gaol, or penitentiary, from the fact that Edward VI. built a house of correction at St. Bride's well, which was near St. Bride's Church already mentioned. — PiUt.