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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 9 January 1891, Page 18

Mr. James Muir, Princps street, Dunedin, calls attention to his select stock of clerical collars and soft felt hats suited for clerical wear. Mr. Muir's general stock contains the latest noveltic9 in every hue embraced by the hatter and hosier's hu>-intss. Mesare. J. Hardie and Co., corner of Piinces and Rattray streets, Dnnedin, being under the necessity of enlarging their prpmises, are holding a clearme sale of tbeir extensive and txcellent stock of clothing and boo 1 s. Great reductions hare been made in the prices, and tie public will find the advantages offered them well worthy of considera'ion. Mr. Michael Flannigan, a well-known Edinburgh Catholic, baa been returned to the (A y Council We believe he is the first Catholic returned to that body since the Reformation. Mr. Flannigan was the adopted candidate of the Liberal party. Sir R. F. Burton, the famous O-ientalißt and traveller, was received into the Church on his deathbed. The prayers of the faithful were asked for the repose of his soul in all the London churches last Sunday. Sir Richard owed this grace, under God, to his devoted Catholic wife Deputy Moreau's bill looking to the entire abolition of titles in France by taxing them heavily, offered on Mondny, October 27, in in the Chamber, proposes an annual impost, thus graded : — Par the nrpfiv nf 'Mo" AOf> fror,™ . f~« *i „. : i _ _ c hi » c nni\ c . r - __ . , „„„ i.^ti^o , it<» mi, ii ie vi omuu, *j,\j\j\s uouur) , " vicomte," 10 000 francs ; " comte," 20 000 franca ; " marquis," 3o,ooo francs; "duke,"' 50 000 franca; and for that o f " prince," 100 000 francs. Duk^s or counts who desire to use the prfit Highness will be aeked to pay 200,000 francs for ihat in ff-inle privilege. A similar handle to his title will cost a prince 25<>,000 frarcs annually. The German Socialists, since the inoperation ot the laws against them, have adopted a more reasonable programme, with a view to anf^fc, alliance of forces wub Herr Wmdihorst's Catholic party on matters of mutual concern. Wmithorst agrees with th^m substantially on all measures nffrcting the quod of the working peop'e, the reguUt'on of the hours of lab 'Ur, of the labour of womea and children, and the pensioning of the superannuated. The Socialis s have gained an amazing growth in the empire, but with it has come a conservatism with which they have not becu credited,