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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 44, 22 February 1889, Page 18

Tbe Most ReT. Dr. Moran leaves Dnnedin this (Wednesday) afternoon by the &a. Wairarapa, which s&ils from the wharf at 5 p.m. Hia Lordship will be accompanied to Ljttelton, where he goes on board the Kaikoura, by the Venerable Archdeacon Coleman, who will administer the diocese during his absence, and the Rev. Father Lynch, Adm. The Dominican nuns have received art-union blocks and remittances from Mr. Ames, Danedin, and Misa Hill, Invercargill. A VoLtmTEEB church parade took place in Danedin on Sunday aittraooa. The Irish Rifles, who mustered strongly, marched to St.

Joseph'a Cathedral, where the Ro«»ry of tbe Blessed Virgin was and Benediction of the Most Holy Sicramentgiven. The Ber. Father Lynch officiated. The Bey. Father O'Connor requests that all blocks of ticket* may be returned to him, m con nee ion with the R&ogiora art-onion not later than tbe 15th March, aa the drawing is to take place without fail on the 18th of that month. As but a short time now remains in which the frie- ds of the undertaking can eiert themselves to ensure its success, it is hoped they will not neglect this opportunity to make their mark. A good score on the page ot charity most be to the advantage of everyone. The report that the Pope has subscribed £40,000 towards the erection of a new church of St. Patrick in Dublin may possibly be interpreted as applying to the Irish national church being erected in Borne. But, in either case, it shows tbe goodwill of tbe Holy Father towards his Irish children, and the vanity of all that has been dona to try and divide him from them. Irish influence, we are told, is in the ascendant at the Vatican, owiDg to tbe recent visit there of | Cardinal Moran. And we have certainly reason to believe that hia j Eminence did much towards making the Irish question folly understood by the Pope. This was all that was necessary to gain for it the sympathy of His Holiness. That is a strange charge brought by Sir Henry James againat Mr. Michael Davitt, to ihe eff ct that be had borrowed the skirmishing fund to found t^e National League. If so, what is proved, except that Mr. Davitt managed to apply to constitutional and ptacefol purposes money subscribed tor mischief and offence. It must b« acknowledged as very much to Mr. Davitt's credit if be did so. The election of a licensing committee for Danedin, which took place on Tuesday, occasioned especial interest from the fact that five prohibitionists were pitied against five moderates. The moderates— Messn. Sparrow, Stanford, Myers, Forrest, and C»llan— won the day, to tbe satisfaction of all sensible people. The prohibitionists, among whose leading members are Mr. Thos. Dick and Mr. A. C. Begg, make a stroDg point of the fact that they did not tpend sixpence in their generous effort to rescue the city and the human race from ruin. Their protest, however, is quite unnecessary, as the difficult thing for them to obtain credit for would be that, under any circumstances, they were capable of doing so. The occasion is one of those rare ones on which we may place full raliance on the protest of the gentlemen in question. The Times has not any longer been able to put off the evil day. The famous letters have, therefore, b+en produced by it before the Commission, and a pretty mess it seems to be in. The letters were purchased for £3000 from Houston of the I.L.P D., who had obtained them from the notori. us Pigott, to whom he paid £1760, they having previously been offered to the Marquis of Hartington and the Pall Mall Gazette. The first shock received by the Times in the matter was when it was suddenly recollectel tha r . the letters should have had envelopes attached to them, whereas there were none. In spite of this discovery, however, a bold face was put upon tbe matter, and they were published at what was judged an opportune crisis. Pigott, wbo had nothing to lose in any case, though tbe Timei promised to protect him from rum, has evidently done a good stroke of business on bis own account. The fellow says Mr. Libouc here offered him £HOO to swear he had forged the letters, but the easy d sproof of this lies in the fact that be would gladly have jumped at the offer, 'tnmunity being secund to all the witnesses. Tne Times has also made the mistake of having Mr. Labuuchere watched by a detective, aad thus confounding with Mr. Parnell and his colleagues a man who is widely popular in England. An interest is thus given to the case which it would not otherwise have had. In an interview with a representative of tbe Neiv York Herald, Major Lecaron has made a statement which still further confirms us in our views as to the origin of the Invinciblee. It is to the effect that the whole truth had not yet been told about the Pt oeaix Paik murders, as the Government was unwilling to disclose certain documents in their possession. These documents must, therefore, affect tbe character of the Government itself, for there is nothing else which they would be anxious to protect connected with the matter. It is evidently as we have said. The conspiracy resulting in the Phoenix Park murders was a Castle plot, got up by an informer, but which miscarried. It is now announced that Mr. John Dillon will sail for Australia" by the Orient on March 1. The delay in the arrival of thedelegitea, Sir Thomas Esmond and Mr. Dea*y, has evidently been caused by the postponement of Mr. Dillon's departure from Home, as it had been arranged that they were to await him at the Cape, where they would come on in his company to these colonies,