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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 43, 12 August 1892, Page 18

Captaia Dudley has bsen buay recently writing in the newspapers urging that Castletown, on the west side of Bantry Bay, opposite Bear Island, be made a port of call for the American liners. Castletown, he says, is fUe hours in advance of Queenstown, and if the American mails were landed there the mails would be in England on their way from Holvhead to London before the hoar at which they reach Dublin from Queenstown under the present system. The distinguished New York banker, Mr Jesse Seligman, who is in Borne, has made a successful effort to enlist the Catholic influtnca to aid and protect the Jews of Europe from the persecution to which they are subjected in certain countries. Cardinal Bampolla, the Papal Secretary of State, to whom Mr Seligman addressed his requestfor such assistance, haa declared that tho policy of the Catholic Church has always been that of protecting the Jews, and that he will be glad to do all he can to forward the humane cause of rescuing Hebrews from their persecutors. Such an unequivocal stand by Cardinal Bampolla will have much efisct on a number of nations in the direction of checking their harassment.