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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 44, 22 February 1889, Page 20

Messrs Mollison Mills and Co., are now holding a cleariner sale of summer stock. The goods must be sold, and therefore unprecedented bargains may be obtained. Messrs. Whitaker Bros,, Wellington and Greymouth, publish anew and comprehensive list of Catholic and Irish National b >oka. The stock is well chosen, and comprises, as well as works of to id value, interesting and amusing tales, patriotic songs, and a great variety of works of profit and entertainment combined. Mrs. Louisa Hawkins's Certicura remedies are testified to as of great benefit. PersocE who have been relieved by them pronounce them infallible. Mr. Robert Wilson has purchased the grocery business lately conducted by Messrs. Campbell and Livingston at No. 83 George street, Dunedin. None but the best goods will be kept in stock, and the prices will in every case b? moderate. Meat of every sort and of the finest qualities, is always to ba obtained at the lowest cash prices at Mr. Randall's, Maclaggan street, Dunedin. All who give their orders at this establishment will meet with satisfaction. Messrs. Kirk Brothers, corner of Great King and Union streets, Dunedin, hav<> constantly on hand a stock of all descriptions of coal and firewood. Piompt attention given tooiders. Fust-class goods and reasonable prices are the rules of the fiira. The Excelsior Hotel, corner of Pnnce9 and Dowling streets, is now conducted by Mrs. Murphy, under whose management, as was to be expected, it has become a fiist-rlass establishment. It will ba found in every respect a most desirable house of its kind. Mbyks and Co., Dentists, Octa^oo. corner of George street. They guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth gives general satisfaction, ani the fact ot them tupplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months wnhout teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those i needing the extraction of a tooth. Read — [advt.] One of the few links iemaming to connect the first centenary of the Church in the United Mates with its second is the venerable Father Hugh F. Griffin, who celebrated the golden jubilee of hia priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary of the Sulpicwins, Baltimore, Md., on Thursday, December 13. He was born of Irish patents in Baltimore, March '3, 1811, anJ had personal rem mbranco of everyone of the aichbishops of 'he primanal see, not excepting Archbishop Oarroll, who died in 1815. He has exercit-ed priestly functions under five of them. Father Gntliu was 20 years profebsor at St. Mary'a Seminary, Baltimore, and was later one of the faculty of St. Charles's College, Blhcott City, attending, besides, miesiont! in Howard Co.,Md. The Jewish people of Now York < ity are evidently alive to the importance of the special moial and religious training of yonth. Our esteemed contemporary, the «/< wish Messenger, gives an interesting account of the recent annual meeting of tLe managers of the Hebrew Free Schools. There are 2,149 pupik ranging from 8 to 14 years of age in the 40 religious closes, with 21 teachers. The pupils are thus further classified : 988 boys and 1,161 girls ; 1,450 born in America and 699 foreign-born. Industrial departments ate in (successful operation in all the schools. It is proposed to erect a commodious edifice to become a centre of activity down town, and educate the thousands < f Hebrew children floek 'ns,' to these shores. During the three months ending September 30, according to returns recently issued, there were committed in all Ireland only two murders— exclusive of those perpetrated by the police, which, of course, are not mentioi el. Dunng the same period there were twelve murders in London alone, of which information was given, and beaidec, many bodies were found whose condition indicated death by violence. Yet, notwithstanding these tacts, Tory demagogues in Parliament and on platform still dilate upon " Irish crime," and express their anxiety to confer the blessings of " Bntuh civilisation" upon Ireland I