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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 28, 10 April 1891, Page 17

On Sun lay las', the 35th anuiveisuy of the consecration of the B.sbop of Dunehn, Pontifical Hia;h Miss wis celebrate 1 by his Lordsbip in S . Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin. The Rev. Father Lynch, Adm., acted as dtacon, ani the Rev. F.ithet 1 O'Xeu as snt--deacon. The Bi-hop also preached, taking thi> epistle and gospel of the d.y a.s h s (-uIyJLCi, aud ti,.cing t hfj profs Ib y furnished ot the Divinity <_f Christ. Tne most rev. preacher alsj alluded to the tvent C'inimemurfitud, fi»>kui, r thu prayers ot the congregation that he nai^ht still be giVLu giact an 1 c reugth to fulfil th>; daties requiK, lof him.

The 35th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of the Moat R^v. Dr- ilorin was observed on, Mm lay by tha pupils of tho Dorai nicaa nuns' schools. An entertainment was tendered by them to his Lordship in St. Joseph's schoolroom, which had been beau i fully decora tec 1 .. An extremely well arranged programme was carried out, ih<3 pupils of the High School giving some excellent music, and those of Sc Joseph's school a dramatic performance and a series of graceful evolutions especially devised for the occasion. The Bishop, who was accompanied by the priests of the Dunedin mission, expressed himself highly pleased, and spoke of the entertainment as ia all respects perfect and even quite unique.

The Rev. Father Donnelly regrets that a further post-ponement of the art-union in aid of the Palmerston Presbytery fund is an inevitable necessity. The prizes offered are extremely valuable, including some very fine paintings both in oils and water-coloura. To sacrifice them as must be the case were the drawing held before a sufficient number of tickets bad been'disposed of would be an injury rather than a gain to charity. It is, therefore, earnestly hoped that an exertion will be made to prevent so lamentable an occurrence and to permit of the drawing at an early date.

The authorities in centres co widely separated, at least by distance, as Paris and Buenos Ay res are, it appears, opposing the Salvation Army. By the way that seems rather a questionable statement made by Admiral Scott in aletter to the London Daily Graphic : ■ -"At first assailed on all sides," he writes, '■ and not infrequently experiencing personal violence, the New Zealand branchof this Association at length won general esteem and support." Now we all know that in Duhedin at least — in whose neighbourhood Admiral Scott resided — nothing of the kind took place. The Salvation Army was not assailed or violently attacked her;j, On the contrary, it was received by many people with open arms. As to the esteem in which it is now held, we know little of it, but this we can say— wben it first arrived here it was quite common to meet along the roads troopa of people hastening to its meetings, or to hear them returning rather noisily ( though piously, at night. Such marks of sympathy and approval are not now visible to the naked eye or audible to the ear of the uninitiated.

We learn from a telegram under date Auckland, April 3, that the New Zealand District Board of the Hibernian Society have appointed Bro., G. Kearney as their delegate at the representative conference of that society ia Melbourne.

Mr. Paenell has received another marked rebuff in the defeat of his candidate at Shgo, where Alderman Collury has been elected by a majjrity of 765. If he were capable o£ taking a waraing he must now retire from the contest. He eeems. however, inclined to go from bad to worse, and the prediction that he would ultimately join the Tories appears to havesome chance of immediate fulfilment. The following cablegram under date April 6, seems very suggestive : "Mr. t'aruell, speaking at Dubl.n, said ttiat tbe Liberals were notorious for making political prisoners, anl the Tories tor libera'ing them."

A revolt at Manipur in India, in which British Indian forces Lave been defeated and mas3acrtvl, and wuich is not yot subdued or revenged, has been followed by an outbreak in another uative State. We do not know that there is anything very alarming in the matter, but it is 8 ill significant as to the watchfulness and rea hness demanded of the Imperial Government. It is also suggestive as to tho possibilities uf the Russiau position in Central Aiia.

The Home Secretary has made a revela ion ia accrediting the diplomacy uf Lord Salisbury with averting serious dangers in regard ot the Behring Sea d'spute and .the imbroglio in Newfoundland. The chances are, however, that the Hiaxe Secretary has spoken prematurely and disclosed dangers cf whicti the country knew nothing. It seems the negotiations respecting Behring Se* dave been abruptly broken off, and things in Newfoundland are evidently still fir from settled. Mr. Ma> news' congratulations, in fact, give serious grounds for uneasiness.

Here i& anotu *r cablegram that sdqoh anything rather than reassuring. " Berlin, April 4. The Emperor complains of the recent s atement of tbe Premier of Italy that tv« Triple Alliance is purely fjr defensive purposes, and considers that it is calculated to weaken the al'i me:." Tr.e Empt-ror, of course, insists that, the alliance is also (iff'-tMve.

A Catholic who knew how to make a good use of his wealth was evidently the late Mr Donald Gordon Stuart cf Liverpool. A contempor >ry gives us the following details as to the bequests left by him. M:. Doaald Stuart has left a sum of £17,230 for the Uoman Catholic (Jnurcti ot his native country of Scotlan 1. He bequeaths £8750 for the education of joung men for the priesthood. A sum ut

£2500 is for this purpose bequeathed to the Right Rev. Hugh Macdonald, R.C., Bishop of Aberdeen, A lik» sum, £2500, is bequeathed to the Right Re/. Angus Macdonald, R.C., BUhopof Argyll and the Isle?. Three sums, each of £1250, are bequeathed for the ■ame purpose — the education of young men for the priesthood, to the Most Rev. William Smith, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh ; and to the Right Rev. John M'Lachlan, R U , Bishop of Galloway. Besides these Bums for education, a sum of £500 has been bequeathtd to tbe Convent of Mercy, Tomintoul, Banff^hire, and a like sum of £500 to the Convent of Dornie, in Kintail, Ross-shire. A sum of £2600 is bequeathed to the Rev. William Diwson, Inverurie, as treasurer for the Secular Clergy Fund in the diocese of Aberdeen ; a like sum of £2500 to the treasurer or trustee of the same fond in the diocese of Argyll and the Isles ; and two sums, each of £1250, to the treasurer or trustee of the Secular Clergy Fund in the dioceses of Dunkeld and Galloway respectively.

On Tuesday (writes the Roman correspondent of the Irish Catholic of 7th February) private interviews were granted to Monsignor Grimes (Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand) and to Monsignor Leonard Haas (Bishop of Basle and Lugano). The Bishop of Christchurch made the usual repot on the state of his diccesp, and then asked the Holy Father to grant him another audience later on, in order to present the Peter Pence and an album of addresses, whicb, unfortunately, had not yet arrived in Rome. Now thib has arrived and was on view in the Irish College last Thursday. It contains addresses, beautifully illuminated, from the priests, religious Orders and laity, with views of the principal towns. Irish emblems are vary prominent in all, chief, of course, being the harp, surrounded with shamrocks. The case containing tbe address iB a fine specimen of New Zealand wood, and is very handsome.

WAS it really a Justice of the Peace who wrote a letter last week to the Dunedin Star, protesting that Catholics should not be allowed to hold any position worth speaking of in the police — or some rubbish of that kind 1 Still a Justice of tha Peace can occasionally act like a goose, and, although with some contradiction of name 9, like a wild goose to boot. So the mid-night antics of one of the class performed at South Dunedin lately informed us. " I'm a Justiceof the Peace,' 1—"1 — " My name is Mallard." Such were the cries with which that zealous funciionary, the Manager of the Union Insurance Company, J.P., awoke the echoes of the murky hours — in pursuit of a constable — whether a Catholic member of the force or not we cannot say— who seemed too slow for his anxious vigilance. If a Justice Of the Peace, therefore, has really figured as a goose in the columns o the Evening Star, his action, as we see, was not without precedent So rabid a bigot, nevertheless, whatever miy be his fitness to perform the duties of any other office, in which, ot course, he must also shun all coutact wnh Catholics is quite out of his placj io occupying a position that, like the mag sterial b< nch, demands complete impartiality in those who occupy it.

A whiter in the Quarterly Review (says the Liverpool Catholic lines) makes a vigorous onslaught on the foolish and wasteful system of School Boards, whicb, he says, is practically an endowment of the religion of Nonconforrais's — and, we should aid, of blank atheism. The figures he gives are most eloquent. The School Boards take from the ratepayers alone the sum of £2 718,891 per annum, the school rate being over Is in the p'.urd in 223 places. The supporters of the Education Act alwaye prophesied that the Act would cause a large decrease of crime ; aiid that the money spent ou palatial buildings, extravagant salaries, and the like, would thus in the long run be saved. What are the facts 1 In 1869, the year before the Act was passed, the juvenile cffendei s against the law numbered 8,8G3. In 1889, after twenty years of Board schools, the 8,863 had increased to 28,033 1 So much for the morality that springs from a godless education.

The Rev. Brother Murray, who hid for some years been Superior of the Christian Brothers' schools in Dunedin, has been removed to Melbourne, where he will take charge of the St. V;ncent's Boys 1 Orphanage at Emerald Hill. Muci regret is felt at Brother Murray's departure from this city, where his sterling qualities had won for him the esteem of all who came in contact with h>'m.

An octogenarian named Francis Geudea died at Aston, Birmingham, on the 13th January (t-ays the London correspondent of the New Zealand Herald*), who may be remembered with respect in New Zealand, though he lived and died a poor working-man. Thirty years ago he emigrated to New Zealand, having previously vowed that if successful re would present a peal of bells to the Roman Catholic Church at Erdington. He returned home in 1887, and at once fulfilled his promise, at a cost of £800. On the blessing of the bells on January 20, 1887, the Bishop of Birmingham eulogised the old labourer's pious zeal for the beauty of God's borne. Mr Geuden resided at Eidiugton until his death. The property he had acquired in New Zealand he had made over to Bishop Grimes, o{ Gblilt-

church, B~>me years ago, it being the first landed property his sea bad acquired

Thk S3B9ion of the university of Otago was opened on Wedneslay tho Ist insr. We do not know that anything particularly deserving of notice took place on the occasion — unless, in lead, it was the conferring by the Chancellor of an honorary degree on Dr. Hocken — who is henceforth to be knowa aa the •' Hero Jo'us of New Zealand." Does the worthy Doctor cry ''Drffeul ma frjm my fritsads ?" Tbe Chancellor, also, at the conclusion of the ceremonies, remarked that the students had behave! admirably. Are we to attribute this to the composing influences of Mr. D. Wilkinson, A.R.3.M., who delivered a lecture on the occasion 7 The report of this 1 cture, at least, seems very sugges'ive as to its eff.cts on an audience.

Mr. John Roberts, C.M.G., of Dunedin, is among the passengers by the direct steamer Coptic, for Eogland. Mr. Roberts is accompanied by the good wishes of his fellow citizens for a prosperous voyage and a safe and speedy return.

According to cab'egrams published by the American Press an intrigue had been undertaken by Germany and Russia for the deposition of Cardinal Ramp jIU from the position of Papal Secreta ry of State, in which Russia wished to see him rep'aced by Cardinal Vannutelli. A Ciblegram under date Rome, February 23, explains the matter as follows. " The only grain of truth in the news' agency report of the intrigues against Cardinal Rampolla, Papal Secretary of State, is that Pope Leo has given it to be distinctly understood that the policy of the Vatican towards the Governments of Europe is, and bas been, upon tbe lines laid down by himself personally. No Secretary has ever been in closer harmony with his Pontiff than is Cardinal Bampolla with Leo XIII." We may add that the rumours in question most probably account for the c%nard cabled to these colonies respecting Cardinal Parocchi. To the cable agency no doubt one Cardioal or one intrigue is the same as another.