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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 21, 13 September 1889, Page 18

A lkttbb hai been received from the Most Bey. Dr. Moran, finally stating that his Lordship's passage, and those of the nuns and priests accompanying him on his return to Dunedin, had been taken in the Orizaba, to leave London on August 17. The vessel is due at Melbonme on September 30, and. as the New Zealand steamer leaves that port on October 1, the Bishop should arrive in this city on October 8. The definite information thus come to hand will be of use in aiding towards the completion of the arrangements for his Lordship's reception.

As the Nbw Zealand Tablet Printing and Publishing Company have now added to their business a cbromo-lithographic department, under the management of a gentleman who bears a very high character as a practical artist, and whose work already executed in the Colony, where he has only recently arrived from England, "has been much admired, it is their intention to present the readers of the Tablet newspaper, as a suitable mark of the event, with a portrait of the Most Bey. Dr. Moran. The portrait in question, which will be a large and handsome lithograph, will be issued as a supplement of the newspaptr on the 27th inst., and will also be especially appropriate in connection with his Lordship's impending return to the Colony. We have no doubt our readers will duly value the gift we offer them, and that it will obtain the honoured place deserved by Dr. Moran 's services to faith and fatherland in their households. We may safely promise that the picture will do credit to any apartment in which it may be hung.

Wb have to announce with much regret the departure of the Bey. Father Cassidy, who leaves the diocese of Wellington for that of Grafton, N.S.W. The Taranaki News of a recent date, ia referring to the rev. gentleman's impending departure, speaks as follows : — M The Bey. Father Cassidy leaves New Plymouth for New South Wales, and will carry with him the best wishes of a large portion of the community— of all denominations. The rev. gentleman has been in New Plymouth for some four years, and has, during his stay here, done much in the cause which he advocates. He has gained a name M an eloquent preacher, and his charitable actions have made him

admired and respected. His energy also is noteworthy, as his country parishioners will bear testimony to. We understand the rev. gentleman has been iavited to New South Wales by the Bishop of Grafton, and that the position he will oconpy will give him greater scope for a display of bis talents. The congregation of St. Joseph's are not going to let Father Cassidy depart without a memento of their esteem, and a fitting testimonial will, we understand, be presented to him."

Possession was taken of the offices at the Dunedin Exhibition building on Saturday, the Union Jack being hoisted over the dome to mark the event. Mr. Joubert afterwards addressing the workmen

-alluded to the peculiar feature possessed by the building in iU being erected on ground recorered from the ocean. He also spoke of the impetus to be given to trade, and the increased knowledge of the country to be promoted by the undertaking. It ia definitely arranged that, among the distinguished visitors, ia to be Mataapha, the Samoan King—now additionally notable from the admirable behaviour reported of him during the late hurricane at hts island. If his Majesty does not come in the splendour with which another monarch of the outer barbarians has lately visited England, we have every reason to believe he comes associated with a great deal less that is disreputable. When, for example, the Bhah paid his first visit to Europe some fifteen or sixteen years ago, the Empress of Austria refused to admit him to her presence— and it is impossible to avoid the feeling that the Qaeen and the Princess of WaUs, not to speak of ladies of less exalted rank, might on the recent occasion have found themselves in much better company. Mataapha, however, is a monarch with whom no honest woman need blush to become acquainted.

Lobd Hakhnoton is preparing himself, not to accept but to resist the inevitable. In the course of a speech delivered by him, the other day, somewhere in Yorkshire he is reported as saying that if the result of the next general election was the return of a Home Rule majority, the Unionists would compel the country to reconsider the question, and would use every resource the constitution allowed to prevent so great a change being hurriedly made. A change, nevertheless, that hts been under consideration for so many years can bardly be hurriedly made. It is, however, suggestive to find the Unionists prepared themselves to adopt obstructive tactics against whose adoption by the Home Rulers they made so loud an outcry. But Lord Hartington and his party evidently see what the result must be. Tbey no longer pretend to misunderstand the signs of the times.

Thm Ministers' Association at|Christchurch appear to us to have acted rather inconsistently with regard to the evangelist calling himself G. T. Sullivan. If these ministers believe in momentary conversion, and look upon a course of debauchery and wickedness as qualifying a man converted in a moment to come forward at once and make use of his experiences in preaching the gospel, what right have they to condemn this preacher because of a trick or two more I He would only have a little more to tell for the conversion and edification of sinners in the next town he visited-and that should be ratber an advantage than otherwise. Besides, bis own conversion may have been the work of any moment— even after the charges were oublished against him in Cbristchurch. There seems to be »<>«" n g , therefore, according to the Evangelical view, to deserve forG.T. Snllivan the disgrace into which he has fallen, conversion being a momentary matter, and the more sins a convert^ to boast of being the more profitable for his hearerß.

A PCBLic meeting called for the purpoge of taking steps in aid of the London dock strikers on Tuesday evening was postponed. A misunderstanding had arisen owiogto certain changes made as to the date at which the meeting was to be held, and the attendance in consequence was small-most people in the city not being informed. Tn making the postponement, one of the gentlemen present referred to "he settlement of the strike, and said he hoped it would not prevent a large number of citizens from attending on the evening fixed. Se dement of the strike, indeed, has little to do with the matte. It does not in the least tend to settle the general question, and the important thing is to bring public opinion everywhere to bear on Sf A lesser though still a sufficient reason for a full attendance l« m fntioned by tne speaker referred to, who also said that, not. wUhstanding the settlement, a great deal of misery must remain to bTreUeved. It is to be desired, not only for the credit of Dun.din, but likewise for the good of the working classes everywhere, that the adjourned meeting may be thoroughly suscessful.

Has Giotto's bell-tower soared up in gold full flity bracolai Completing Florence, as Florence Italy, M Mr Browning predicted it would under the newregunel We Le not heard of the works' being carried out. What we have heard oMs that a claim of creditors been advanced to take over the tarn?L tower at Piaa-the municipality being wholly unable to pay their delta We iave also heard that .everal other Italian corporations Sto a **£* predicament. Mr. Browning', prediction represent.

the dream j the claim upon the leaning tower represents the fulfilment. Verily Italy has answered ill to the expectations formed of her. Meantime, perhaps, the architects of the present day had better leave Giotto's tower uncompleted. It is a splendour of Oatholic ages. How Italy fares in anti-Catholic days the state of things at Pisa sufficiently teaches us. •

Thebi seems to be Borne hitch as to the settlement of the London strikes— the men apparently being unwilling to wait until January 1, as proposed, for the adranee in their rate of wages. An attempt, however, is being made to induce the companies to commence the advancement next month.— lt is decidedly a matter of congratulation for the Australian colonies that the sympathy and aid given by them are acknowledged as having secured the success of the strikers. No more wholesome result than this has marked the connection between the old world and the new.

In our correspondence column the Rev. Father O'Donnell makes an appeal in aid of the building fund of the Darfield presbytery. The rev. gentleman will, no doubt, find many generous friends to come to his assistance in discharging the obligations incurred.

Mb. Paknell's action (says Truth of July 25) in withdrawing from the Commission saems to have brought the Timet to its senses, and we are not to be pestered with the rebutting evidence which hai been threatened, Everyone is, I think, glad of this, for no one wishes to submit fuller evidence to three lawyers as to whether, if there be political agitation and political crime, the agitators are responsible for the crime. If we are, indeed, to theorise on cause and effect, we might go back a step further, and contend that those who rendered the agitation necessary are the true culprits , But when this Commission is over, it will be our turn. There is grave suspicion against many persons in regard to the Piggott forgeries, and there is evidence also that the Government made common cause with the limes in its attempt to affix criminality on the Irish Leaders. Thiß conspiracy must be investigated in all its ramifications. Jo6t as Mr. Parnell and his friends hare been obliged to show all their letters and accounts, so must the Times and its friends be forced to make disclosure. It is probable that the Government will resist this demand. If it does, the public will only be confirmed in the conclusion that the Timet, the Irish Loyal and Patriotic League, and the Go vernment have been banded together to crush political opponents under false charges.