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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 13, 20 July 1888, Page 31

The Catholic party haa achieved a signal triumph in Borne. The project of raising a monument to the memory of the heretic monk, Giordano Bruno, at the expense of the ratepayer of the city, has been rejected by the Corporation, thanks to the votes of the Catholic councillors. Ihe Freemasons are in high dudgeon over this defeat. The lodges spent no less than 200,000 francs in vain efforts to influence the corporate fathers by organising demonstrations in the streets on behalf of the subsidy. Every possible attempt was made to make the enterprise a success ; but Borne— to its honour, be it said — refused to lend itself to a movement, the real object ot which was to anaoy and exasperate the Vatican.